Mexico

Volkswagen’s Mexico unit has agreed an increase in worker pay and benefits of 5.46% in a new collective contract, the local trade union for the German automaker (VOWG_p.DE) said on Tuesday. Manuel Aburto, spokesman for the…

..OKONJO-IWEALA LAUDS BUHARI, NASS, ECOWAS FOR SUPPORT Nigeria has inaugurated a Campaign Strategy Team to support former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's candidacy for Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)…

...INSISTS SHE HAS MANAGERIAL CAPABILITY TO LEAD WTO  Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, one of eight candidates vying for position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has called on…

Twelve million Mexicans have lost their jobs since March as part of the economic fallout from the coronavirus, and the number of people working in the informal sector shot up significantly, official data showed on Tuesday. The economic…

Volkswagen AG’s Mexican unit said about two per cent of its workers tested for coronavirus had contracted the disease at some point. This underlined the challenge faced by automakers in reopening factories before the pandemic has peaked…

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York, elected four new non-permanent members into the Security Council for a two-year term beginning on Jan. 1, 2021. India and Mexico clinched the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and…

Britain is to start giving seriously ill coronavirus patients a basic steroid treatment hailed as a "major breakthrough" Tuesday capable of reducing the global pandemic's death toll as worrying new outbreaks surfaced. A new and…

The number of coronavirus infections globally topped seven million on Monday as deaths mounted in Latin America, but New Zealand’s declaration of victory against the pandemic offered some hope for the rest of the world. Europe also…

Brazil's death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed Italy's to become the third-highest in the world, as Europe emerged from punishing lockdowns and the EU pressed for a reopening of borders. The bleak figures from Brazil…

Global infections from the novel coronavirus passed five million on Thursday as the pandemic played out unevenly across the planet, with China eager to declare a victory, Europe tentatively emerging from its shell and deaths still…