EC sets €2.4tr recovery package to heal pandemic-ravaged economies

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium partly reopened their doors with access to the Old Masters Museum since 19 May. Visitors are asked to buy their tickets online as much as possible, using the museum’s webshop, and are invited to follow an outlined trail through the collection.

Curfews were imposed on major US cities as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Donald Trump that his government would stop the violent protests "cold."

As countries emerge from lockdowns imposed to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, dozens have rolled out phone apps to track a person's movements and who they come into contact with, giving officials a vital tool for limiting contagion risks.

More than 6 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. Data compiled by the US university put the number of cases at more than 6,057,000 late on Saturday. Almost 370,000 people worldwide have died in connection to COVID-19, the lung disease caused by the virus, the data showed.

Seattle-based electric motor manufacturer MagniX teamed with local airline Harbour Air to retrofit a Cessna Grand Caravan 208 with a 750-horesepower zero-emissions motor and conducted its first test over Moses Lake, Washington, Thursday, marking the first step in a long process its developers say will led to an era of low-cost, pollution-free air travel.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber on Sunday. Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker on Thursday after February elections that swung the balance in the legislature towards ultra-conservatives.

Two veteran NASA astronauts were headed for the International Space Station on Saturday after Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade.

The United States said it is considering deploying a Security Force Assistance Brigade in Tunisia for training, as part of its assistance program with the North Africa country, amid concern over Russian activity in Libya.

The European Union on Saturday urged US President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to cut American funding for the World Health Organization amid global criticism of the move, as spiking infection rates in India and elsewhere served as a reminder the global pandemic is far from contained.