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From Los Angeles to Miami to Chicago, protests marked by chants of “I can’t breathe” - a rallying cry echoing the dying words of George Floyd - began peacefully before turning unruly as demonstrators blocked traffic, set fires and clashed with riot police, some firing tear gas and plastic bullets in an effort to restore order.

British foreign minister Dominic Raab defended on Sunday the government’s “careful” loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, saying it was the “right step to be taking at this moment in time”.

Net revenues from the state budget amounted to 14.1bn euros, a 1.34bn shortfall (8.7 percentage points as compared to the 2020 budget projection) and that is due to the impact of the lockdown and subsequent issues.

The aggregate sum of 43.5 billion euros represents a 5.8 pct of the 750-billion-euros of the Recovery Fund, while the country’s contribution to the EU’s GDP is 1.3 percent.

Constant monitoring is necessary in order to chart to the degree possible the role of children in transmitting the virus to the community.

The programme presented by Mr. Tsipras yesterday at Zappeion Hall in Athens is an exercise in readiness and an act that entails responsibilities to the Greek people.

Obviously governments should meet up with businessmen and businesswomen but this must be done openly and publicly in order to establish cooperation with the various sectors of the economy.

Today there is nobody in their right mind who has not understood the significance and value of a country being governed by trustworthy individuals and forces that are at least in a position to discern major threats

The market was awaiting the German Ifo business climate index survey, due out at 0800 GMT, which is expected to show a moderately improved reading compared to April's release, according to a Reuters poll. ($1 = 0.9197 euros).

Le Maire said that President Emmanuel Macron would announce "strong measures" for carmakers that would boost demand, but which would require them to re-locate some production in France in exchange.

The tourism minister spoke straight after a nationally televised address by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in which he announced a 24bn euro pandemic recovery fund and the government’s plans to re-open the country to international flights.

The PM boasted that the  Greek people through perseverance in weathering the crisis and religiously following public health guidelines in the lockdown turned Greece into a model country.

Even if one were to accept that in the past Mr. Melissanidis gave the impression that governments are in one way or another vulnerable to various demands, there is no reason for that status quo to continue.

How can such things be going on for a quarter-century? That is a question for the Greek judiciary and for the state, which has failed to create a real “protective framework” for football.

Certain government members in an effort to personally capitalise on the public health success are creating a climate of unjustified complacency.

The Syrian government ordered the seizure of assets belonging to President Bashar al-Assad’s cousin Rami Makhlouf, one of Syria’s richest men, as well as his wife and children, according to a government document reviewed by Reuters. The document, stamped May 19 and signed by the Syrian finance minister, said the «precautionary seizure» aimed to guarantee […]

"Coronavirus killed our grandmother of course and we're grieving," Kornilova said. "If it wasn't for coronavirus, with chemotherapy she would have held out for some time."

Many of these medicines are in shortage and have previously been imported from other countries, the private company said in a statement.

A total of 112,042 diagnostic tests for coronavirus have so far been carried out nationwide.

The European Commission’s proposals for the tourism industry, from which an estimated 25 percent of Greece’s GDP derives, indicate that the sector has not been condemned to wither.