(Reuters) – Coastal residents in low-lying areas of Louisiana and Cuba were evacuated on Sunday as roads turned into rivers in Haiti’s capital as twin hurricanes threatened the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf Coast. Marco, which intensified after a hurricane on Sunday and is expected to hit the Louisiana coast …
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MANILA (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook the Philippines Tuesday, killing at least one person and damaging roads and buildings, including a hospital and a sports complex used as a new coronavirus quarantine center. A partially damaged building is seen in the middle of a rubble in the province …
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(Reuters) – After becoming Dean of the University of Illinois School of Business in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics as a virus would choke a major source of income for his school: Chinese graduates. Jeffrey Brown, dean of Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, poses at …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China must protect against all handball in off-balance sheet loans in the so-called shadow banking sector, and must have non-executive assets available as soon as possible, the head of the country’s banking and insurance regulator said on Sunday. In recent years, China has struggled on the shadow …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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