Remdesivir may be approved in Japan on Thursday – health minister
Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir may be approved in Japan for domestic COVID-19 patients when the health ministry’s review board is held on Thursday,...
Book a table for fast food? Burger King trials post-lockdown app in Italy
Burger King is trialling an app for ordering food and booking a table at its outlets in Italy, as it seeks to persuade locals it...
UK expects hacker attacks on COVID responders to last months: minister
Sophisticated networks of hackers are targeting national and international organisations which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Britain’s foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday,...
Turkey’s coronavirus death toll rises by 59 to 3,520, slowdown continues
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 59 in the last 24 hours to 3,520, Health Ministry data...
Fed’s Evans says ‘reasonable’ to expect U.S. growth in second half of 2020
Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Tuesday it’s “reasonable” to expect the U.S. economy to return to growth in the second half of...
U.S. trade deficit widens, services sector contracts amid coronavirus
The U.S. trade deficit increased by the most in more than a year in March as a record drop in exports offset a shrinking import...
Trump to visit factory making masks after researchers double U.S. coronavirus death projection
President Donald Trump on Tuesday will travel far beyond the Washington area for the first time in weeks to visit Arizona, one of dozens of...
Lufthansa to pay no dividend for 2019 as airline seeks bailout
Lufthansa shareholders on Tuesday agreed to not distribute 298 million euros ($323 million) in retained profits as a dividend for 2019, as the airline enters...
UK coronavirus death toll rises by 693 to 29,427
Britain’s COVID-19 death toll has risen by 693 to 29,427, according to figures announced on Tuesday by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab....
Oil surge lifts global stocks out of three-day losing streak
A gauge of global stock markets snapped a three-day losing streak on Tuesday as moves to ease major economies out of their coronavirus lockdowns lifted...