BERLIN/OSLO (Reuters) – With the summer vacation season in full swing Germany, France and Norway are taking measures to try to stop people returning from holidays abroad from spreading the coronavirus. The new restrictions, imposed as countries worry about a…
Read MoreNew wave of boat migrants overwhelms southern Italian island
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) – About 100 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean in small boats landed on the southern island of Lampedusa during the night, the latest in a wave of arrivals straining an already overcrowded holding centre. Officials said the…
Read MoreIran has sent black boxes of downed plane to France: official
(Reuters) – Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday. Some 176 people were killed when the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s…
Read MoreEuropean stocks end off session lows ahead of EU summit
(Reuters) – European shares ended off session lows on Thursday ahead of a keenly awaited meeting to organise a European recovery fund, after weak earnings and a growing number of COVID-19 cases had earlier pushed stocks down from one-month highs….
Read MoreEuropean stocks gain on vaccine, stimulus hopes; earnings eyed
(Reuters) – European shares rose on Monday as progress on a possible COVID-19 vaccine, some upbeat earnings reports and stimulus talks fed into hopes of an economic recovery from the coronavirus-induced downturn. The pan-European STOXX index rose 1%, with miners…
Read MoreEuropean stocks gain as focus shifts to earnings, stimulus talks
(Reuters) – European shares rose on Monday, with cyclical sectors leading gains as investors hoped the upcoming earnings season and stimulus talks will feed into an economic recovery from the coronavirus-induced downturn. The pan-European STOXX index rose 0.5%, with miners…
Read MoreItaly's rebound pulls European stocks out of loss, virus concerns remain
(Reuters) – Italian stocks pulled Europe out of early losses on Friday as data pointed to a strong rebound in May industrial output, but a spike in coronavirus cases globally continued to weigh on investor sentiment. The pan-European STOXX 600…
Read MoreHSBC and Nokia drag European stocks lower amid virus worries
(Reuters) – HSBC and Nokia dragged European shares lower on Wednesday as a surge in coronavirus cases appeared to threaten a recovery in the global economy, while Britain’s plan to head off an unemployment crisis cushioned a fall in London’s…
Read MoreLibyan migrant centres are like concentration camps, pope says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday compared migrant detention centres in Libya to concentration camps, saying the world was being given only a diluted version of how hellish life really was for the people living there. The pope,…
Read MoreChina rally triggers gains in European cyclical stocks
(Reuters) – European shares headed towards a one-month high on Monday, with a rally in China’s markets setting an upbeat tone as investors banked on the world’s second biggest economy to lead a recovery from the coronavirus-induced slump. The pan-European…
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