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HSBC cuts headcount by 35,000 in deep overhaul
Published On: February 18, 2020 06:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, Feb 18: HSBC will shed some 35,000 jobs as part of a deep overhaul to focus on faster-growing markets in Asia and as it tries to cope with a slew of global uncertainties, from Brexit to the trade wars to the new coronavirus.
Iran's Khamenei calls for high turnout in parliamentary election
Published On: February 18, 2020 05:08 PM NPT By: Reuters
DUBAI, Feb 18: A high turnout in a parliamentary election will display unity in Iran against “enemies”, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted on Tuesday, days before the vote seen as a referendum on the clerical establishment’s popularity.
Head of hospital dies in coronavirus epicenter; global economic impact spreads
Published On: February 18, 2020 04:13 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Feb 18: The head of a leading hospital in China’s central city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday as Apple Inc warned its sales would suffer because of the epidemic, casting a chill on global stock markets.
Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie
Published On: February 18, 2020 03:45 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MILAN, Feb 18: The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected or could abide.
'Don't be kidnapped by China': Taiwan tells WHO in bid for separate virus tally
Published On: February 18, 2020 02:14 PM NPT By: Reuters
TAIPEI, Feb 18: Taiwan urged the World Health Organization on Tuesday not to be “kidnapped” by China, as more countries put travel curbs on its citizens because the health agency groups the island’s coronavirus cases with China in the battle on the outbreak.
Japan targets HIV drug trials to fight coronavirus; cruise ship evacuations continue
Published On: February 18, 2020 01:35 PM NPT By: Reuters
TOKYO, Feb 18: Japan plans to trial HIV medications to treat patients infected with coronavirus as its growing number of cases poses an increasing threat to the economy and public health, the government’s top spokesman said on Tuesday.
“Whitey” Bulger juror says she regrets murder conviction
Published On: February 18, 2020 01:07 PM NPT By: Associated Press
EASTHAM, MASS, Feb 18: The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam after he was tipped to his pending arrest.
Boy Scouts file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits
Published On: February 18, 2020 12:38 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Feb 18: Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the hallowed, 110-year-old organization to carry on.
Ten killed in suicide blast in southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta
Published On: February 17, 2020 08:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
QUETTA, Pakistan, Feb 17: At least 10 people were killed in a suicide blast that targeted a police vehicle in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said.
UK issues severe flood warnings; storm injures 9 in Germany
Published On: February 17, 2020 07:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, Feb 17: Britain issued five severe flood alerts on Monday, warning of a danger to life after Storm Dennis dumped weeks worth of rain in some places. It gale-force winds also injured nine people in weather-related car accidents in Germany and caused flooding and power outages elsewhere in northern Europe.
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