WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Union should scrap its Emissions Trading System or exempt Poland from the scheme, which helps combat global warming, to free up funds for Warsaw to fight the effects of the coronavirus, a senior Polish official said. Emergency workers help a man as they arrive to a hospital dedicated for coronavirus
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian researchers said on Tuesday they have mapped the immune responses from one of country’s first coronavirus patients, findings that the health minister said were an important step in developing a vaccine and treatment. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause
BEIJING (Reuters) – A new Chinese medium-lift rocket, part of a family of launch vehicles meant to support most of China’s launch missions in future, failed on its debut flight, the official news agency Xinhua reported. The Long March 7A, a variant of the Long March 7, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center,
(Reuters) – The spreading coronavirus is threatening project schedules in the booming U.S. solar industry following a year in which the sector topped natural gas as the nation’s top new power source, according to a report published on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: An array of solar panels is seen in the desert near Victorville, California, U.S.
FILE PHOTO: The Nordstrom store is pictured in Broomfield, Colorado, February 23, 2017.REUTERS/Rick Wilking (Reuters) – Apparel retailer Nordstrom Inc (JWN.N) on Monday withdrew its fiscal 2020 forecast and said it would close stores in the United States and Canada for two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it would close stores,
FILE PHOTO: A boy cycles past a closed down retail unit for rent in Stockport, near Manchester, Britain June 11, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble LONDON (Reuters) – The northern English city of Manchester is the fastest-growing tech hub in Europe, measured by the rate of increase in venture capital funding, with investment jumping from 48 million
(Reuters) – Drugs used for treating arthritis are being tested as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, as researchers rush to find ways of helping patients and slowing the number of infections. FILE PHOTO: A Sanofi sign outside the French drugmaker’s Paris headquarters, October 30, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann//File Photo Sanofi and
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Well above-average rains punctuated by sun last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions should boost the April to September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, when downpours are scarce or poor. Farmers said no significant
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve and its global counterparts moved aggressively with sweeping emergency rate cuts and offers of cheap dollars to help combat the coronavirus pandemic that has jolted markets and paralyzed large parts of the world economy. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to speak to reporters after the Federal
(Reuters) – Unite Group, which owns and manages student accommodation in the UK, said on Monday it would scale back its summer business programme due to the coronavirus outbreak, but added it had not seen any significant impact on its sales. The company provides homes to 74,000 students across 177 properties in 27 university towns
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – With supermarkets stripped of food and many other essentials, consumer product companies halted factory runs of niche items such as scented bleach in order to speed up production of more basic merchandise that is in high demand. Pallets of toilet paper fill the sidewalk in front of grocer Fairway in
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government has called for a national effort similar to the one which helped the country survive during the Second World War as it prepares to fight the spread of coronavirus. People wearing protective masks walk past a souvenir store on Oxford Street in London, Britain March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson “Our
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government has called for a national effort similar to the one which helped the country survive during the Second World War as it prepares to fight the spread of coronavirus. People wearing protective masks walk past a souvenir store on Oxford Street in London, Britain March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson “Our
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – American Airlines Inc said Saturday it plans to cut 75% of its international flights through May 6 and ground nearly all its widebody fleet, as airlines respond to the global collapse in travel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-800 plane sits at the gate
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said it is closing all its retail stores, except those in Greater China, for the next two weeks to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission. Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N) meanwhile said it was temporarily closing “a number of its stores” across the United States in order to expand its work
FILE PHOTO: Gauges to regulate oxygen on a ventilator are seen at a lab run by the University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told British manufacturers to boost production of ventilators and ordered private hospitals to prepare for an overspill
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