Jury trials are delayed again in Denver and Boulder counties over high positivity rates thanks to the omicron variant.
One might think that with CNN's popular gauge of investor sentiment stuck on 'extreme fear', it would take some seriously good news to lift up markets these days. But all it took yesterday was a whiff of COVID-19 optimism from China and decent U.S. retail data to send global equity markets back into a jolly bullish risk-on mode. The upbeat mood was hard to reconcile with BofA's self-described "extremely bearish" monthly survey which showed fund managers had not been as underweight on stocks since May 2020.
As North Korea battles its first known COVID outbreak, a lack of storage, chronic power shortages and inadequately trained medical staff pose acute challenges to inoculating its 25 million people - even with outside help, analysts said. North Korea has not responded to offers of aid from South Korea and international vaccine-sharing programmes, but prefers U.S.-made Moderna and Pfizer over China's Sinovac or British-Swedish Astrazeneca shots, according to South Korean officials. Sinovac or AstraZeneca vaccines can be transported and stored at normal refrigerator temperatures.
UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, jumped to 9% in the year to April, up from 7% in March.
The biggest factor that led to the collapse of the Afghan military in August last year was the U.S. decision to withdraw forces and contractors from Afghanistan through an agreement with the Taliban signed by the Trump administration and executed by the Biden administration, a U.S. watchdog report concluded. The withdrawal "destroyed" the morale of the Afghan military as it was dependent on U.S. military support, according to an assessment by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, which was made public late Tuesday.
Tory chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris urged the unnamed MP in his 50s to stay away from Parliament.
Qatar's $300 billion sovereign wealth fund plans to invest $5 billion in Spanish projects, the Gulf state's ruler said late on Tuesday in a dinner held in his honour in Madrid. The amount shows how confident Qatar is in the Spanish economy's strength, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said in a speech during a dinner held in King Felipe's Palace in Madrid, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday. Qatar's ruler, who is visiting Spain this week, is expected to sign a bilateral agreement with Spain to invest in the projects funded by the European Union COVID recovery funds, the first such agreements between a member state and a non-EU country.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Scoot ferried a total of 1,452,500 passengers in April this year, up 62.7 per cent from the previous month, SIA Group reported.
Despite battling a wave of suspected COVID-19 infections, North Korea appears to be preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's first trip to South Korea, South Korean and U.S. officials said. An ICBM test appeared imminent, Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo told a briefing in Seoul. "If there is a small or large North Korean provocation during the summit period, we have prepared Plan B," he said.
Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds, while the energy minister said the country had run out of money to pay for fuel. An economic crisis unprecedented in the country's history since independence in 1948 has led to a critical shortage of foreign exchange, that saw it miss two coupon payments on sovereign bonds on April 18. Sri Lanka has already said it is unable to make the coupon payments, and a 30-day grace period ends on Wednesday.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters extracted from the last bastion of resistance in Mariupol were taken to a former penal colony in enemy-controlled territory, and a top military official hoped they could be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war. But a Moscow lawmaker said they should be brought to “justice.” The Russian parliament planned to take up a resolution Wednesday to prevent the exchange of Azov Regiment fighters, who held out for months inside the Azovstal steelworks plant while
The piece has joined a series of Monet masterworks that have sold for more than £40.1m in consecutive New York sales at Sotheby’s
The victim and the suspect were known to each other, the Metropolitan Police confirmed
Flight data reportedly indicates someone in the cockpit made the China Eastern Airlines jet crash.
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A 31-year-old man has been arrested after footage appeared to show one supporter running at Billy Sharp and knocking him to the ground.
Russian gymnast was unapologetic and said he would do the same if given second chance
Ericsson on Wednesday laid out plans to restructure its operating units to focus on mobile infrastructure and business customers, and announced that two senior executives will leave the company. A new business unit was created by merging digital services and managed services to increase its cloud expertise and build products for automation and artificial intelligence. The unit will be led by Per Narvinger, who joined Ericsson in 1997.
Tiger Woods has defended the “legacy” of the PGA Tour following Phil Mickelson’s comments over the breakaway Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series. The US PGA Championship champion will not defend his title at this month’s tournament having stepped back from golf in February, when his criticism of the PGA was poorly-received by a number of parties in the sport. “He has his opinion on where he sees the game of golf going,” Woods told reporters.
A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.
PARIS, May 18, 2022--Regulatory News: Air Liquide (Paris:AI) has signed a ten-year contract with Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) for the purchase of renewable energy to power industrial and medical gas production operations in the North East of Italy.
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