(Reuters) - Even with nearly a fifth of the labor force collecting unemployment benefits in July, Americans continued spending with relative gusto, driving retail sales back to pre-coronavirus levels as they shifted shopping online, brought their food home, and stocked up on new appliances.

The downside: It was government money they spent, and

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside long-standing tensions and make similar agreements.

MADRID (Reuters) - Outbreaks of the coronavirus are happening across Europe and each country has to make its own decisions on how to halt them, Spain’s foreign minister said on Friday as Germany declared most of her country a risk region.

Germany’s decision followed a move by Britain to impose quarantine on people

LISBON (Reuters) - Manchester City’s record scorer Sergio Aguero will not feature in the Champions League quarter-final against Olympique Lyonnais having failed to fully recover from his knee surgery, manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday.

Oakland A’s outfielder Ramon Laureano had his suspension reduced to four games for his role in last Sunday’s brawl, and he will begin serving it Friday night, ESPN reported.

Laureano was originally suspended six games for charging the Houston

SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rate of coronavirus deaths among indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon is nearly 250% higher than in the general population, for reasons ranging from a lack of access to healthcare to invasions of indigenous land, researchers said.

The fatality rate among COVID-19-infected indigenous Amazonians had soared by early August, up from the 150% higher than the broader population found in a study in June by IPAM, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute.

“The

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Volkswagen’s Porsche ( PSHG_p.DE ) plans building a new plant to make car bodies in Slovakia, where it may create up to 1,200 jobs, Slovak newspaper Dennik N reported on Friday.

The sport cars maker already has one plant in the country

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A review of the U.S.-China trade deal initially slated for Saturday will be delayed due to scheduling issues and no new date has been

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is planning for a “reasonable worst case scenario” in which new waves of the coronavirus would intermittently swamp the public health system and send the death toll soaring, officials said on Friday.

Under the scenario,