WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The largest 20 U.S. airlines carried 16.3 million passengers in June — an 80% decline over the same month last year — but nearly twice as many as May.

The coronavirus pandemic has slashed U.S. airline passenger demand, but it has rebounded from historic lows in April, when just 3 million passengers traveled. The Transportation Security Administration said it screened more than 800,000 people at U.S.

Indians starting pitcher Zach Plesac said he regrets leaving the team hotel in Chicago for a dinner out with friends — an action that got him dispatched back to Cleveland alone.

His dining experience violated league rules designed to keep teams’ traveling parties safe from

(Reuters) - A gas explosion ripped through a Baltimore neighborhood on Monday, killing at least one person, injuring four and trapping children as the blast destroyed at least three homes, firefighters said.

Fire officials described it as a natural gas explosion but said the exact cause was under investigation.

The blast destroyed three brick row homes and ripped open the wall of another, spreading debris throughout the neighborhood. Rescuers picked through the rubble, searching for victims with their hands and hand tools, Baltimore City Fire Department spokeswoman Blair Adams

DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco ( 2222.SE ) is moving ahead with plans to boost crude output capacity by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) to 13 million bpd despite cuts in capital expenditure this year and next year,

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark, angry at Google’s censorship of some Danish content over an argument over copyright, said on Monday it was seeking talks with the Alphabet-owned

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country’s tolls from the epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures, state news agency IRNA reported.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab will soon announce his government’s resignation, the health minister told Reuters on Monday after a massive port explosion that devastated the capital piled pressure on the cabinet.

Diab was set to deliver an address to the nation at 7:30 p.m. local time, his office said.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Monday as commodity prices climbed and domestic data showed the first annual increase in consumer spending in five months, adding to evidence of economic recovery.

The loonie CAD= was trading 0.3% higher at 1.334