Economy & Business
Nations debate easing lockdown as economic hardship grows
Governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to lift economically painful virus-control measures as unemployment rises. Mandatory lockdowns to ...Dubai opens 3,000-bed field hospital for virus response
Dubai opened a 3,000-bed capacity field hospital on Saturday in its World Trade Centre to prepare for a potential surge in novel ...Global virus deaths pass 150,000 as Trump endorses lockdown protests
Coronavirus deaths have surged past 150,000 worldwide with nearly a quarter of them in the United States, where President Donald Trump lent ...Germany’s virus outbreak ‘under control’
Germany said on Friday a month-long lockdown had brought the coronavirus pandemic under control, announcing plans to manufacture 50 million masks a ...China under mounting pressure over virus origins
China on Thursday came under mounting pressure over the coronavirus pandemic from Western powers led by the United States, which said it ...UK extends coronavirus lockdown for ‘at least’ another three weeks
Britain on Thursday extended its lockdown to tackle the coronavirus for “at least the next three weeks”, as it remains among the ...Europe still ‘in eye of the storm’ despite moves to ease virus lockdowns
Parts of Europe moved cautiously to reopen their streets and economies on Thursday but the coronavirus pandemic was far from beaten and ...US halts funding to World Health Organisation amid coronavirus pandemic
President Donald Trump says he has directed a halt to US payments to the World Health Organisation pending a review of its ...Global recession forecast as countries mull lifting virus lockdowns
The coronavirus is poised to spark a bruising global recession not seen in a century, the IMF warned Tuesday, as countries considered ...Paris climate goals failure ‘could cost world $600 tn’
Nations’ failure to fulfil the promises they made in the Paris climate agreement to make drastic emissions cuts could cost the global ...