Новости за 21.09.2020

BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Michel Aoun warned on Monday Lebanon was going "to hell" if a new government could not be formed but agreeing one might take a miracle after positions had hardened between

Health officials within the Trump administration are expressing optimism over the fight against the coronavirus. On Sunday, assistant HHS secretary Admiral Brett Giroir told reporters that COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are decreasing across the country.

(Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce retailer JD.com is planning to spin off its health unit and list it on the Hong Kong stock exchange, the New York-listed company said on Monday, a move that

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seven energy ministers will sign the charter of a new Middle East energy forum that will promote natural gas exports from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe and other markets,

A former national security advisor recently highlighted the danger posed to international security by increased aggression from China.

According to President Trump, a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by the end of October. In an interview Monday, he noted Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna are all making progress in regard to developing a vaccine.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy will make testing for COVID-19 compulsory for people traveling from Paris and some areas in France, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Monday, amid growing concern over

U.S. Postal Service workers in Chicago are threatening to stop delivering mail due to concerns for their safety.

President Trump laid into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she refused to rule out impeachment as a way to stall him from nominating another Supreme Court judge.

By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia plans to invest A$18 billion ($13 billion) over the next 10 years in technologies to cut carbon emissions in the fight against climate change, the

(Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Monday it plans to stop making new coal-fired power plants, as the U.S. industrial conglomerate focuses more on renewable sources of power generation.

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - COVID-19 is a reminder that "we are all in it together" and the world needs a global response to the climate change crisis, David Attenborough said, as he launched a

By Gabriela Baczynska and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The main opposition leader of Belarus urged the European Union on Monday to approve sanctions on officials accused of rigging the

By Nadine Schimroszik and Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - German aviation startup Volocopter has teamed up with logistics group DB Schenker to deploy its heavy-lift drones, in a project that will

LONDON (Reuters) - British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday that he wanted schools to remain open and avoid a return to mass home schooling, as the government was considering new measures

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government and Taliban militants remain far apart on even the most basic issues a week into talks meant to end two decades of war

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday pondering a second national lockdown as an accelerating coronavirus outbreak threatened to

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Alan Jope, the chief executive of Unilever , said on Monday the company would press on with plans to unify despite a Dutch opposition party proposal calling for

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Fasten your seatbelt, because Tuesday is Tesla's "Battery Day", and some investors expect Chief Executive Elon Musk's pitch on the electric car maker's energy

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's export orders grew at their fastest pace in more than two-and-a-half years in August, surging on strong global demand for its telecommuting products, as the coronavirus

BERLIN (Reuters) - Gas contributes only a fraction of Germany's energy consumption, and Russian gas only a fraction of that, so it is wrong to say that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will make Germany

VILNIUS (Reuters) - The presidents of Lithuania, Poland and Romania will ask European Union leaders at a summit later this week to offer a support package for Belarus if the country holds a democratic

By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's central bank is expected to keep its key interest rate at a record low zero percent this week, a Reuters poll found on Monday, leaving many economists to

BERLIN (Reuters) - Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Monday he expected public debt to reach around 80% of Germany's economic output by the end of the coronavirus crisis, the level it reached at

By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's government will pump 105 billion crowns ($12 billion) into the economy in 2021 through tax cuts and spending in a record giveaway aimed at getting the