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Australia aid plane to Vanuatu delayed as Chinese plane was parked at Port Vila airport
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) plane carrying aid to cyclone-struck Vanuatu turned around and returned home on Sunday as a Chinese plane with medical equipmen...
Apr 14, 2020
Historic women’s golf event in Saudi Arabia set for October
(Reuters) - The first women's professional golf event to be staged in Saudi Arabia has been rescheduled for Oct. 8-11 after it was postponed last month due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers have...
Apr 14, 2020
Sports: On this day… April 15
(Reuters) - ON THIS DAY - APRIL 15 April 15, 1996 SOCCER - Arsenal's David Platt clears the ball in acrobatic fashion during a 0-0 draw against bitter north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Platt, pla...
Apr 14, 2020
UK government’s overdraft at BoE remained 370 million pounds on April 8
LONDON (Reuters) - The British finance ministry's overdraft at the Bank of England remained at 370 million pounds ($464.50 million) as of April 8, a day before the facility was expanded to help the go...
Apr 14, 2020
Deaths in England from coronavirus 15% higher than previously reported, stats office says
LONDON (Reuters) - Deaths in England caused by the coronavirus by April 3 were 15% higher than previously reported, according to official data published on Tuesday. "The latest comparable data for dea...
Apr 14, 2020
J.C. Penney to hire advisors as it mulls options for debt: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc has approached consulting firm AlixPartners LLP as the U.S. retailer looks at options for managing its debt, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowl...
Apr 14, 2020
Moscow warns it faces coronavirus hospital bed shortage within weeks
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in Moscow have warned that the Russian capital may run out of hospital beds to treat a rising influx of coronavirus patients in the next two to three weeks despite frant...
Apr 14, 2020
Southeast Asian leaders vow to cooperate in coronavirus fight
HANOI (Reuters) - Southeast Asian leaders agreed at their first video conference summit on Tuesday to fight together against the "gravest public health crisis" in 100 years to make the region safe aga...
Apr 14, 2020
China’s 2020 GDP growth set to sink to 44-year low as coronavirus cripples economy: Reuters poll
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economic growth is set to stumble to its slowest annual pace in nearly half a century, as the coronavirus health crisis shutters businesses and brings the global economy to...
Apr 14, 2020
Germany can’t say yet that new coronavirus cases are falling: institute
BERLIN (Reuters) - A lower number of new coronavirus cases in Germany in recent days is likely due to less testing over the Easter holiday, the head of the Robert Koch health institute said on Tuesday...
Apr 14, 2020
