Lebanese film director keeps faith after COVID-19 dashes Cannes dreams
Many directors would have been devastated when their plans to show their first feature at the Cannes Film Festival were wrecked by the spread of...
UK ditches COVID-19 app model to use Google-Apple system, BBC says
The British government will switch to Apple and Google technology for its test-and-trace app, ditching its current system in a U-turn for the troubled programme,...
Saudi proposes framework to end standoff between allies in southern Yemen: sources
Saudi Arabia has proposed a framework to end the latest standoff in southern Yemen between nominal allies under a Saudi-led coalition, three sources said, as...
WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, 2 billion next year
The World Health Organization hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and 2 billion doses by the end...
Medtronic ties up with Foxconn to boost ventilator production
Medtronic said on Thursday it had partnered with Foxconn to boost production of its ventilators to 10,000 over the next year amid surging demand as...
Wall Street opens lower on rising virus cases, elevated jobless claims
U.S. stocks fell at the open on Thursday as an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the United States threatened to upend bets of a swift...
Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, is dead at 92: NYT
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of slain President John F. Kennedy, who as U.S. ambassador to Ireland in the 1990s played a pivotal...
Nepal’s parliament approves map including territory controlled by India
The upper house of Nepal’s parliament approved a new map of the country on Thursday including land controlled by India, in a row that has...
EU leaders to support extending Russia economic sanctions, sources say
European Union leaders are expected on Friday to back extending the bloc’s main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end...
Cash flows into U.S. growth funds surge, value funds see outflows
U.S. investors have ramped up investments in growth funds over the past few months on expectations of higher returns and safety, while they dumped value...
