Australians on lower incomes will be entitled to the payout which forms part of a £8.75bn ($17.4bn) package to stimulate the faltering economy. Small and medium-sized businesses will also see an injection £12,500 ($25,000) worth £3.3bn ($6.7bn). Around 70,000 businesses employing an estimated 7.8 million […]
Officials have vowed to hold to account those behind last night’s strike on the Taji base which also killed two US servicemen and injured at least 12. Mr Raab and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have discussed the attack and how to respond. We […]
Spain’s health ministry confirmed deaths have nearly doubled overnight, rising from 47 on Wednesday to 84 today, while the number of cases rose to 2,968 up from 2,140 on Wednesday. It comes at the same time the country’s Parliament was suspended for 15 days after […]
A textile designer and weaver in Halifax, N.S., says people can begin to tell stories through their clothes again if they become in control of the designing process. “Right now we purchase all of our clothing from overseas. We don’t have a say of the […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has become the public face of the global fight against coronavirus. Here are some details of his career: – A former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, he was elected in […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks plunged into a bear market and oil slumped on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump banned travel from Europe to stem the spread of coronavirus, threatening more disruption to the world economy. With the pandemic wreaking havoc on the daily […]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended splurging the cash in his budget as he vowed to “do what it takes” to steer the UK economy through the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With £12bn to be spent on an immediate response to COVID-19 – as well […]
LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – Credit ratings firm Moody’s said high-yield corporate bond defaults could spike to 9.7% – topping 2002 levels – in a “pessimistic scenario” that sees the coronavirus outbreak last longer and spread more widely that currently assumed. Moody’s raised its “baseline” […]
People around the world became increasingly closed off from one another Thursday as sweeping travel bans accelerated, walling regions apart as a viral pandemic unfolds and financial markets plunge. It was an outbreak moving, at once, both glacially and explosively, with a virus first detected […]
The European Union on Thursday lashed out at United States President Donald Trump’s “unilateral” decision to restrict travel from Europe to the United States over the coronavirus, saying that the illness does not respect borders. Trump announced that all European travel would be cut off, […]
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