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European Union pledges 40 bln euros for 'just transition' from fossil fuels

In no way will the intention to return to our usual Schengen, removing the current restrictions on our internal borders, be replaced by a kind of regional mini ...

E.C. to Devote Billions to Aid Economic Recovery

To protect lives and livelihoods, fix the Single Market, as well as to build a lasting and prosperous recovery, the European Commission is proposing to harness ...

European Union unveils €750bn plan for coronavirus recovery

Our willingness to act must live up to the challenges we are all facing. The plan, dubbed Next Generation EU, would spare the balance sheets of already indebt...

China Hits Back At New US Securities Regulations

Foreign companies would have to leave USA stock markets if they fail to comply with the nation's regulatory audits for three consecutive years - a requirement C...

Stuff sold for $1 to CEO Sinead Boucher by Nine Entertainment

The deal brings to an end the efforts of rival media company NZME to buy Stuff. Boucher said she planned to develop "an ownership model which will give staf...

Coronavirus job retention scheme extended by one month

Employers will pay workers and reclaim the money from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) at the end of April. While the ultimate decisions on who can be furloughed...

Latam Airlines Files For Bankruptcy In United States

Latam Airlines said that it and several of its affiliated companies launched the reorganization effort in the United States in a bid to reduce its debt and fi...

AstraZeneca obtains $1 billion from USA to help fund coronavirus vaccine

But a leading member of the project said yesterday that the lower transmission of Covid-19 in the community now leaves the trial with only a 50 per cent chance ...

Hyundai Santa Fe teased, hybrid powertrains in-bound

The new T-shaped LED daytime running lights are now integrated within the massive geometric front grill. Also unclear are details on the new-look Santa Fe's ...

LATAM Airlines Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Passenger and cargo flights will continue to operate, and employees will still be paid, it said. LATAM, formed when Chile's LAN merged with Brazil's TAM in 20...

Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt

The company confirmed Monday that the rocket's debut flight over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California was unsuccessful. Still, Virgin Orbit's ...

Lufthansa rescue package worth €9 billion approved by German government

And Berlin still has a 15 per cent holding in Commerzbank, which it took on during the global financial crisis. Germany's Finance Ministry and Economic Affair...

Volkswagen must buy back 'dieselgate' cars: Germany's top court

Judges at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe "effectively upheld" a lower court's ruling that plaintiff Herbert Gilbert can return his auto to VW...

China warns of countermeasures over Washington’s Hong Kong trade threats

Though smaller demonstrations have broken out in recent weeks, Sunday's was the largest since protests over a now-suspended extradition law roiled the city pa...

Beijing Warns Americans Are Pushing Countries Towards ‘New Cold War’

The tensions border around trade, human rights and a range of other issues. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called the proposal "a death knell for the...

Pub chain giant Wetherspoons announces plans for COVID-19 changes

Tim Martin has been heavily criticised for how he's handled the closure of his pubs . The government has not yet given an exact date for reopening pubs but c...

'SHOCKED:' Ford outraged as thousands coverge on Toronto park

The gathering came a day after a press conference where de Villa said Mother's Day may have been part of the reason for an increase in COVID-19 cases, and that ...

Shopify announces post-office model, most staff to permanently work from home

When those offices do reopen, most employees will continue to work from home. "The choice is really, are we passengers on this tidal wave of change?" "There a...

UK plans cut in Huawei's 5G network involvement - newspaper report

Boris Johnson has actually been forced to cave right into to Conservative backbench rebels opposed to the existence of Huawei in 5G networks as well as has actu...

UK PM rejects calls to fire top adviser for breaking coronavirus rules

A second eyewitness told the two papers they saw him a week earlier in Barnard Castle on Easter Sunday, a popular tourist location 30 miles away from Durham, du...

Coronavirus: UK human trials start on possible vaccine

Adar Poonawalla said that very optimistically a potential vaccine could be produced by the end of the year and the Oxford trials are far ahead. Sinovac is con...

China's vaccine trial shows promising results — The Lancet

Most of the people dosed with the vaccine had immune responses, although their levels of antibodies thought to neutralize the virus were relatively low. These a...

Three more COVID-19-related deaths in Fraser Health region

Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, have today (May 23) issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) r...

More than 2.4 million Americans filed for unemployment in the past week

The previous monthly record for unemployment claim filings in DE over the past three decades was a little more than 9,600 in January 2002. The state also repo...

Hertz auto rental has filed for bankruptcy protection amid COVID-19

The 102-year-old firm was £15.3bn ($18.7bn) in debt by the end of March and started missing debt payments in April, court documents reveal. In fact, the long-ru...

WTI crude oil falls below US$14.50 as stockpiles rise

Brent crude, the global benchmark, was changing hands at $25.61 a barrel for June delivery, up 0.15 per cent. Oil prices have skidded as travel restrictions a...

British firm ready to supply vaccine in September

The unofficial trials were reportedly successful as they allowed the researchers to become immune and stay " alive, healthy and happy ", as Gintsburg put it thi...

Target stores to be closed or rebranded as Kmart, Wesfarmers announces

More than 100 Target stores across Australia could be axed or rebranded as Kmart in a major revamp of the struggling chain. "Over the last two months, Bunni...

Downing Street urges China to respect Hong Kong’s freedom

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo labelled the proposal as "disastrous". Reacting to China's plans for a Hong Kong national security law, outspoken media t...

DeSantis vs. Cuomo and Britain's State Religion

Will you be visiting Florida theme parks when they re-open? "At the end of the day, we trust parents to be able to make decisions in conjunction with physicia...

Next U.S. coronavirus rescue package not too far off -McConnell

Senators are prepared to leave town for a weeklong Memorial Day break without having acted on any new relief. Senator for Colorado Cory Gardner has called a...

Volkswagen issues apology for racist ad

The 10-second commercial , posted on Instagram Tuesday, features a large white hand shoving a black man away from a yellow Volkswagen Golf parked on th...

Virus-hit Hertz declares bankruptcy in U.S. and Canada

Hertz filed for bankruptcy Friday night after failing to reach an agreement with lenders, The Wall Street Journal first reported Friday. The firm, which ...

Senate passes bill to delist PRC firms

If a company can't show that it is not under such control or the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB, isn't able to audit the company for three ...

Coronavirus jobless claims: 2.4 million sought aid last week

Jobs in Georgia were down by 492,100 over the month, the lowest number of jobs on record in six years. Claims have been gradually declining since hitting a re...