Taiwan to ease virus border controls to let in some business people
Taiwan will from the start of next week ease border controls put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and will allow in...
Rashford emerges as joint-favourite for British Sports Personality of 2020
Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has emerged as the bookmakers’ joint-favourite to win Britain’s sports personality of the year award after his successful campaign for...
HSBC revives plan for 35,000 jobs cuts delayed by pandemic
HSBC is resuming a redundancy plan it put on ice after the coronavirus outbreak, and will cut around 35,000 jobs over the medium term, a...
Oil falls as U.S. crude stocks build amid virus resurgence fears
Oil prices declined on Wednesday as data showed an increase in U.S. crude and fuel inventories, raising the prospect of oversupply as a potential second...
Russia says Open Skies nations to meet July 6 over U.S. exit: RIA
Participants in the Open Skies treaty will hold a conference on July 6 in light of the planned exit of the United States, Russia’s RIA...
Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus – CNN
Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus CNN What you need to know about Trump’s legal showdown with Bolton Washington Post Trump Administration...
Beijing extends movement curbs to contain resurgent coronavirus
Scores of flights to and from Beijing were cancelled, schools shut and some neighbourhoods blocked off as officials ramped up efforts to contain a coronavirus...
‘Best news so far’: UK hails steroid treatment for coronavirus
Britain’s health minister on Wednesday hailed the use of a steroid called dexamethasone for treating coronavirus patients as the best news so far of the...
Giant tortoises go home after saving their species
A group of giant tortoises who helped rescue their species from the brink of extinction were released into the wild in the Galapagos Islands on...
Ka-boom! How Germany’s ‘Mr Thrift’ Scholz came to splash the cash
Four months is an eternity in pandemic politics. As recently as February, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz was Germany’s Mr Thrift, a devotee of the “black...