BERLIN: Germany will force people returning from three Spanish regions, including Catalonia, home to Barcelona, to go into quarantine or take a coronavirus test, in the latest blow to Europe’s travel industry after months of lockdown. With virus numbers ticking up in Germany, fears have grown that tourists returning from […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that a recent uptick in infections was a “warning light” which means he has to hit the brakes on the easing of lockdown as he postponed the re-opening of close-contact services for at least two weeks. “I’ve said throughout the pandemic that there […]
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump visits Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies’ Innovation Center in Morrrisville, North Carolina WASHINGTON: As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior US lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration’s lack of […]
Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia reported an unexpected rise in its second-quarter underlying profit on Friday, amid the COVID-19 pandemic as its new chief executive Pekka Lundmark takes over on Saturday. HELSINKI/STOCKHOLM: Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia reported an unexpected rise in second-quarter underlying profit on Friday as […]
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. SYDNEY: Australia unveiled a draft law Friday (Jul 31) to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for […]
REUTERS: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Thursday (Jul 30) it has bought another US$522 million of stock in Bank of America Corp , boosting its already large stake in the second-largest US bank by assets. Berkshire bought about 21.2 million Bank of America shares from Jul 28 to […]
SEOUL: North Korea’s sanctions-hit economy defied the impact of international restrictions to grow for the first time in three years in 2019, the South’s central bank said Friday (Jul 31). Nuclear-armed Pyongyang is highly secretive and refuses to publish growth statistics of its own, leaving outsiders reliant on estimates drawn […]
THE HAGUE: Dutch airline KLM said Friday (Jul 31) it would shed up to 5,000 jobs due to a “crisis of unprecedented magnitude” caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The carrier, part of the Air France KLM group, said the cuts through the end of 2021 were necessary as it had […]
SINGAPORE: Initial investigations show that is “unlikely” that a traveller from New Zealand who had transited in Singapore en route to South Korea was infected with COVID-19 during his stopover, Singapore authorities said on Friday (Jul 31). The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said: […]
Google’s ad sales have recovered since plummeting in March during the coronavirus pandemic, parent Alphabet Inc said on Thursday, easing concerns about its first quarterly sales slide in its 16 years as a public company. OAKLAND, Calif./BENGALURU: Google’s ad sales have recovered since plummeting in March during the coronavirus pandemic, […]