SANTIAGO (Reuters) – President Sebastian Pinera celebrated 30 years since Chile’s return to democracy on Wednesday, but students calling for Pinera himself to leave office due to income inequality and
Nova Scotia to bring in U.S. expertise after rockfalls at coal mine
Nova Scotia’s labour minister says a series of rockfalls at Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine has prompted his department to bring in some international expertise. Labi Kousoulis says mine inspectors
Oil slumps as stock markets sink, while Saudi, UAE plan to boost capacity
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell 4% on Wednesday, sinking into the close of trading with renewed weakness in the stock market after the World Health Organization said the
Coronavirus may have reached Italy from Germany, scientists say
ROME (Reuters) – A team of scientists in Milan believes Italy’s coronavirus epidemic might have come to the country via Germany and not directly from China as many experts initially
Two-thirds of Germans may get coronavirus, Merkel says
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will spend what it takes to tackle the coronavirus which is likely to infect up to 70% of the population in Europe’s largest economy, Chancellor Angela
France reports 15 more coronavirus deaths, tally now at 48
PARIS (Reuters) – French health authorities reported 15 new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, taking the country’s death toll from the outbreak to 48, as the number of reported infections also
World Health Organization calls coronavirus outbreak 'pandemic' for first time
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization described the new coronavirus as a pandemic for the first time on Wednesday, adding that Italy and Iran were now on the frontline
S&P 500 falls 20% from record high, crossing bear market threshold
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 .SPX on Wednesday fell 20% below its Feb. 19 intraday record high, crossing the threshold into a bear market after the World Health Organization classified
U.S. oil company workers made a big, bad retirement bet: their own stock
BOSTON (Reuters) – Employees at the largest U.S. oil companies have lost around $5 billion in retirement savings since the end of 2018 because of outsized bets on their own
Air Canada waives fees on rebookings up to 24 hours before travel due to coronavirus
Air Canada says travellers can rebook recently purchased flights that depart before May without incurring a fee as part of the airline’s latest response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The