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Putin's approval rating fell to 59% in April, down from 63% in the previous month, according to a poll carried out by the independent Levada Center.

A coronavirus relief fund for Native American communities, which has raised over $2.5 million so far, has seen an influx of Irish donors, looking to reciprocate the aid given to Ireland during its potato famine of the 1840s.

Chinese stocks are underperforming the S&P 500 this year. One name could foreshadow the group's next move, according to strategist Matt Maley.

Company says Covid-19 pandemic will affect results from second quarter of 2020.

The streaming service pulled the episode hours after CNBC brought it to the company's attention, but Apple is yet to pull the same podcast.

"This situation makes me sick, because (it) is totally avoidable," Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, said.

The Bank of England is expected to leave rates unchanged on Thursday, with analysts expecting the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to wait until June before acting in order to assess the impact of coronavirus containment measures.

Greece might be spared from having to hit strict fiscal targets related to previous bailouts next year, a government official told CNBC, given the ongoing health and economic crises.

The gains come as investors weighed the consequences of a growing number of states beginning to reopen their economies in the first two weeks of May.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said that Russia couldn't "show any solidarity" with China-bashing statements from the U.S., and stressed the importance of Moscow's relationship with Beijing.

In February, the European Commission estimated a 1.4% rise in GDP for the EU this year.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said he would buy airlines, going against fellow billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who announced that Berkshire Hathaway sold all airline stocks at the firm's annual meeting on Saturday.

The global pandemic would have been more difficult for Egypt if not for comprehensive reforms on taxes, budgets and foreign exchange that the country undertook, said Rania al-Mashat, minister for international cooperation.

The IHS Markit India Services Business Activity Index came in at 5.4 in April — markedly lower than the previous month's 49.3, according to the latest data release.

Helen Clark, who was New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, said the World Health Organization has done "quite a reasonable job" in coordinating the global health response.

Oil prices fell in the afternoon of Asian trading hours on Wednesday after surging on Tuesday as they got a boost from optimism around ongoing production cuts and a recovery in demand as economies reopen.

The coronavirus pandemic might have peaked, but the political fallout from it is just picking up pace and investors are getting very worried, said an economist on Wednesday.

Extending social contact to small groups outside our own households has been suggested as a way to get out of lockdowns but experts question how practical this strategy is to implement.

The IHS Markit India Services Business Activity Index for April came in at 5.4 — much lower than a Reuters poll forecast of 40 and the previous month's 49.3.

Disagreements with U.S. President Donald Trump could drive Europe to step up levies on companies like Google and Facebook, a lawmaker told CNBC.