French economic activity plunged 27 percent in April compared with its expected trajectory before the coronavirus pandemic but this was still a slight improvement on March, the Bank of France said Tuesday.
The EU's top trade official wants to take the opportunity of the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic to spur efforts to heal US trade ties, bogged down in a tit-for-tat tariff feud.
China's factory-gate prices fell to a four-year low, official data showed Tuesday, with firms suffering from the economic devastation unleashed by the coronavirus on the global economy.
US consumer prices dropped by the most since the Great Recession in April, weighed down by a plunge in demand for gasoline and services including airline travel as Americans stayed home during the coronavirus crisis.
India's enormous railway network tentatively ground back to life Tuesday as a gradual lifting of the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown gathered pace even as new cases surged.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Tuesday a $270 billion stimulus package for labourers and small businesses to boost flagging growth as the country grapples with the impact of the coronavirus and weeks-long lockdown.
Interpol has issued a red notice for the provisional arrest of a US diplomat's wife charged over a car crash in Britain that killed a teenager, his family has said.
Renowned US epidemiologist Larry Brilliant has urged China to be "radically transparent" if it wants to fend off suspicion over the origin if the novel coronavirus.
China called on France on Tuesday to cancel a weapons contract with Taiwan, warning that the deal with the self-ruled island could harm diplomatic relations between Paris and Beijing.
The Israeli army suffered its first fatality this year on Tuesday when a Palestinian stone-thrower killed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, a day before US-Israeli talks on annexation. The army said the 21-year-old soldier was hit in the head.
Canada announced Tuesday a onetime payment of up to Can$500 (US$360) for seniors - who as a group have suffered the most COVID-19 sickness and fatalities - to help defray added pandemic costs of living. An estimated seven million elderly Canadians qualify
Greece on Friday takes over the rotating chair of Europe's oldest human rights organisation, the Council of Europe, amid criticism over its treatment of asylum seekers.