NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares fell on Friday as data from China, the eurozone and the United States put a lid on expectations for a continued global rebound, with traders already worried about a delay in US fiscal stimulus . Traders work for the German stock price index, DAX board, …
Read More »Hezbollah will react if Israel explodes behind Beirut, Nasrallah says
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be a sabotage operation by Israel, it would “pay an equal price”. The leader of the powerful Iran-backed …
Read More »Protests swell in Belarus, Lukashenko blames foreigners
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday told people to stay home so as not to be “cannon fodder” for what he said were revolutionaries with foreign support after large crowds took to the streets on the seventh consecutive day to demand that he departed. Lukashenko, whose Sunday …
Read More »Britain regulates more potential COVID-19 vaccine products with J&J, Novavax deals
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will buy potential COVID-19 vaccines from US drugmakers Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Novavax Inc (NVAX.O), the companies said on Friday, improving the number of deals it has with drugmakers as the global fax race draws to a close. FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Johnson …
Read More »No fiesta in Spain as public drinking banned, clubs closed due to surge of coronavirus
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain on Friday night ordered authorities to close and ban drinking on the streets in an effort to stop coronavirus resistance – measures that are causing anger and outrage in the hard-to-reach hairdressing sector. PHILO PHOTO: People pictured at a bar amid outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, …
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