Norwegian Air shareholders back $1 billion rescue plan
Norwegian Air shareholders backed its financial survival plan on Monday, with more than 95% of votes cast supporting the conversion of nearly $1 billion of...
Pandemic slams global factories, activity sinks to new lows
Factory activity was ravaged across the world in April, business surveys showed, and the outlook looked bleak as government lockdowns to contain the new coronavirus...
Pompeo: Shots fired by North Korea ‘accidental’
Shots fired by North Korea across its border with South Korea were likely “accidental,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday as speculation...
Japan’s Abe extends state of emergency to May 31
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he had decided to extend the country’s national state of emergency to May 31....
UK says China has questions to answer over coronavirus outbreak
Britain said on Monday that China has questions to answer over the information it shared about the novel coronavirus outbreak, but refused to comment on...
Norwegian Air shareholders back rescue plan: reports
Norwegian Air shareholders backed key elements of its financial survival plan on Monday, local media reported, with about 95% of votes cast supported converting debt...
Telefonica shares rise on O2-Virgin Media merger talks
Shares in Spain’s Telefonica SA rose on Monday to post the only strong gains on an otherwise almost entirely red Madrid index, after the company...
Stocks fall as U.S./China tensions threaten rebound
European stock markets and oil prices fell on Monday as a spat between top U.S. officials and China over the origin of the coronavirus fuelled...
Stay the course: NZ’s Ardern tells citizens on social restrictions in place to contain COVID-19
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asked citizens to stay the course on social restrictions still in place to contain the coronavirus, and said no...
Ashimbayev elected Kazakhstan’s Senate speaker in reshuffle
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s deputy chief of staff on Monday became speaker of Kazakhstan’s upper house, the Senate, a key position that means he is first...