German Chancellor Angela Merkel held an emergency meeting with leaders of the likely next government coalition Tuesday evening to discuss tougher measures against the escalating Covid crisis.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority liberal government begins its third term on Tuesday with a policy speech outlining plans to exit the pandemic and tackle other legislative priorities.

Deficits occur when there’s a gap between two benchmarks, such as when the government spends more than it takes in as revenue.

India is looking to bar all but a few private cryptocurrencies when it introduces a cryptocurrency and regulation bill in the winter session of the parliament, the government said late on Tuesday. The government will allow only certain cryptocurrencies to promote the underlying technology and

Sarasota City Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch said the bill will help the city pay for some projects that it has already been hoping to carry out.

Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis has confirmed that the Hellcat V8 will be discontinued after the 2023 model year. An all-electric Dodge Muscle car is set to be revealed in 2022.

Nigeria’s government on Tuesday rejected a judicial report that described the killing of peaceful protesters in Lagos in October 2020 as a massacre, saying it was strewn with errors and its conclusions were not backed up by evidence.