DOVER, England (Reuters) - Britain deployed additional military personnel to the port of Dover on Friday to help clear the queues of lorries following the resumption of cross-channel travel for drivers who test negative for COVID-19. Ferry services between Dover and the French port of Calais restarted on Thursday, ending several days of...
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - All many people want for Christmas this year is a simple hug, Britain's Queen Elizabeth said in her annual festive message, saying it would be hard for those who lost loved ones to COVID-19 pandemic or were separated by curbs on social mixing. In her traditional pre-recorded Christmas Day address to the nation, the 94-year-old monarch...
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By Nivedita Balu, Melissa Fares and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK (Reuters) - As shoppers tuck their final Christmas presents under the tree, U.S. retailers are bracing for a record-setting flood of returns of online gifts bought during the deadly surge in coronavirus cases. To make the process more efficient, retailers including Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Inc and Target Corp (NYSE:TGT) let shoppers...
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By Tim Reid and Richard Cowan (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will spend Christmas Day at his Palm Beach resort as millions of Americans face the risk of losing jobless benefits on Saturday and a partial government shutdown looms next week, following his threat to not sign a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and spending package. Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, whose victory Trump...
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By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry unveiled a raft of public procurement reforms on Friday following an outcry over a deal to disburse coronavirus relief to struggling businesses that involved powerful advertising agency Dentsu Inc. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said the new rules aimed for greater transparency in its dealings with bidding entities and their...
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Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as in the sectors propelled shares . At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 unchanged 0.00%. The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (T:9107), which rose 7.83% or 148.0 points to trade at 2039.0 at the close....
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's industrial output likely grew for a sixth straight month in November in a sign of gradual recovery in factory activity, although a recent resurgence in COVID-19 infections clouds the outlook, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The trade ministry data due at 8:50 a.m. on Monday (2350 GMT Sunday) is likely to show factory output...
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in the next 15 years, the government said on Friday in a plan to reach net zero carbon emissions and generate nearly $2 trillion (£1.4 trillion) a year in green growth by 2050. The "green growth strategy," targeting the hydrogen and auto industries, is meant as an action plan to achieve Prime Minister...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's fishing industry is disappointed that a Brexit trade deal struck with the European Union does not represent more of a reduction in the access that the bloc currently has to British waters, an industry representative said. "The industry will be bitterly disappointed that there is not more of definitive break," Barrie Deas, chief executive of The National Federation...
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(Reuters) - More than 600,000 people in the United Kingdom have received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the government said on Thursday. "The government has today published figures which show the number of people who have received the vaccine between 8 December and 20 December in the UK is 616,933," the Department of Health and Social Care...
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