Highlights: February 24, 2020 - February 28, 2020
Christian Fernsby ▼ | March 2, 2020
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A deep upper-level trough will move onshore over most of the West Coast on Sunday, moving to the Upper Great Lakes to the Southern Rockies by Tuesday.
Latest United flight from Chicago to Vegas makes emergency landing in Nebraska
Kerry pleads guilty and agrees to pay $19.228 million in connection with 2018 salmonella outbreak
Brazil sinks rusting old French aircraft carrier in Atlantic
China allowed truck entry on border with Tajikistan
Longest-serving president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf dies
5.5-magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile
Chile expands emergency as deaths from wildfires rise
Fishing boat capsizes in South Korea, 9 missing
Over 200 evacuated from Vorkutinskaya coal mine in Komi due to smoke
Spain suffers amid severe shortage of drugs
Free travel will be extended to even more of London’s lowest paid transport workers
North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley project receives 25 million in grants
Croatia to pay MOL $235 mln in settlement of arbitration case for INA
€25 million EBRD loan to support new tram line in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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UK and coalition partners announce price caps on Russian oil products
Fiji ends training and exchange agreement with China
France mulls extending nuclear reactors' lifespan
PM: Decisions by Commission for Emergency Situations help Moldova get out of winter with dignity
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Viatel Technology to create 50 Irish tech jobs
Ethiopian Airlines inaugurates second aviation academy campus in Hawassa
Statkraft and INEOS Inovyn sign new long-term green power agreements
Portugal's Parliament approves inquiry into TAP airline
Iberdrola launching new call for master's scholarships for Spain and UK
Exothera appoints Darren Leva as chief business officer
Vesta taps Shimon Steinmetz as CFO
Bruno Ultra Barcelos appointed managing director of Ethypharm UK
Syntach names Patrick NJ Schnegelsberg as new CEO
Chiesi appoints Giuseppe Accogli as new group CEO
U.S. services PMI jumped
Türkiye inflation higher than expected at nearly 58%
West Virginia January revenue surplus continues to show opportunity for tax cuts is now
Indonesia: Inflation decelerates in January
Germany's foreign trade balance sees surplus of 10.0 billion euros in December 2022
Skechers Q4 sales increased 13.5%
Bosch posts sales growth
Cigna income $6.7 billion
Aon Q4 income decreased 24%
ASSA ABLOY Q4 sales increased by 28%
Niger set to monetize massive gas reserves through Saharan natural gas pipeline
Putting the brakes on EV folly that choked the market
Oil discovery in Kavango Basin may mean huge benefits for Namibians
Cape Town and Dubai battle over Africa's energy future
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Hong Kong suspends import of poultry meat and products from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Share of Russian agricultural exports to friendly countries grows to 82% in 2022
Ministry of Agriculture: Yangtze River fishing ban sees positive progress
Netherlands: Gross seed onion yield down 17.2 percent
Price growth led to record start for Norwegian seafood exports in 2023
Product images could boost food pantry use
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Only 32% of employees believe their pay is fair
Corporate duty waivers limit organic company growth and innovation
AG for District of Colubia: $1,950,000 available for eligible Drizly drivers as result of tip-theft investigation
North Carolina: 52 stores pay fines for price scanning errors in 33 counties
EAO issued third fine for Coastal GasLink project
Dutch central bank fines cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase 3.3 mln euros
Bloomberg to pay $5 million for misleading disclosures about its valuation methodologies for fixed income securities
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Synthetic opioids will be banned as UK government acts to stop drug deaths
Japan gives priority review status to Alzheimer's drug developed by Eisai, Biogen
Working group proposes on how to make Finland tobacco-free by 2030
Study: Merck COVID-19 pill linked to virus mutations
South Africa authorises roll out of COVID-19 boosters to fight Omicron variant
Webb telescope catches early galaxy formation in action
Straigh and gay men both prefer masculine men for important jobs
Green comet to visit Earth after 50,000 years
Astronomers captured spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters
NASA system predicts small asteroid to pass close by Earth this week
PepsiCo announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hangzhou Haomusi Food or Be and Cheery, one of the largest online snacks companies in China, from Haoxiangni Health Food for $705 million....
The North Sumatra provincial government reported that 47,143 hogs of the total 1,224,951 died of African Swine Fever (ASF) that spread to 21 districts and cities in the province in the past months....
Lowe's Canada is looking to fill over 4,700 full time and part time seasonal positions and 700 regular positions in its network of corporate stores this spring....
Palo Alto Networks announced yesterday financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2020, ended January 31, 2020....
Danone reported today that its full-year 2019 net income, Group share, declined 17.9 percent to 1.93 billion euros from 2.35 billion euros last year....
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government runs a fiscal deficit of 37.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 4.85 billion U.S. dollars) in 2019-2020, the first time for Hong Kong over the past 15 years, the HKSAR government's Financial Secretary Paul Chan said today....
Partly reflecting sharp increases in the Midwest and West, the Commerce Department released a report yesterday showing new home sales in the U.S. jumped to their highest level in over twelve years in the month of January....
ThyssenKrupp sells its Elevator Technology business entirely to a consortium led by Advent, Cinven and RAG foundation....
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers reports results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019....
A leading indicator of the turning points in Switzerland's economy rose for a third straight month in February, defying expectations for an easing, showed the survey data that were largely collected before the news of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy came to light....
UK house price inflation was the highest in 18 months in February, survey data from the Nationwide Building Society showed today.... ■