U.S. airline shares tumble as Buffett stake sell-off fuels investor worries
Shares of the top four U.S. airlines dropped on Monday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway offloaded its entire stake in the carriers...
VW’s Skoda braces for second-quarter hit after earnings drop
Czech carmaker Skoda Auto, part of the Volkswagen Group , reported a 25% drop in first-quarter operating profit on Monday, but said the biggest hit...
Bangkok reopens with stylists in scrubs, plastic screens between diners
Businesses reopening in Bangkok on Monday after weeks of near lockdown were taking intense precautions to prevent new outbreaks of the coronavirus....
Police clash with crowds as India eases coronavirus curbs
Indian police fired tear gas at a crowd of protesting migrant workers in Gujarat and launched baton charges against hundreds of people queuing at liquor...
Russia tracks U.S. and British naval ships in Barents Sea: Ifax
Russia’s Northern Fleet is tracking a group of U.S. and British naval vessels which entered the Barents Sea on Monday morning, the Russian Defence Ministry...
Norway pledges $1 billion to vaccines against COVID-19, other diseases
Norway will give $1 billion to support the distribution worldwide of any vaccine developed against COVID-19 as well as for vaccines against other diseases, Prime...
Macron: France to pledge 500 million euros for global coronavirus vaccine hunt
President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France would contribute 500 million euros ($550 million) to a global fund-raising push to finance research into a vaccine...
Ivory Coast cocoa farmers fear low output after below-average rainfall
Below-average rainfall in Ivory Coast last week has raised fears of a cocoa supply shortage in the coming months and a weak end to the...
Wall Street drops at open as airlines slump, China spat flares up
U.S. stocks opened lower on Monday following growing U.S.-China tensions about the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, while billionaire Warren Buffett’s admission he had dumped...
Assange’s U.S. extradition case to resume in September, London court rules
Hearings in the U.S. extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will resume in September after being postponed from later this month because of the...