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Mar222020 by adminNo Comments
Coronavirus: Italy sees one-day death toll of nearly 800

Coronavirus: Italy sees one-day death toll of nearly 800

World
March 21 (UPI) -- Italy again set a one-day death toll record from COVID-19, reporting another 793 deaths Saturday. Italy's Civil Protection Department said the country's overall coronavirus death toll reached 4,825, with 53,578 confirmed cases. Some 6,000 people have recovered from the disease. Most of the cases are centered in the Lombardy region -- 17,370. A strict nationwide lockdown, including restrictions on travel and closure of most stores, had been in place for 11 days in Italy, but the number of known coronavirus cases continued to rise about 15 percent every day, overwhelming hospitals. Meanwhile, new figures released Saturday show that the number of coronavirus cases in Spain jumped 25 percent in 24 hours. The number of cases increased by almost 5,000 in one day and more tha...
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Dec62018 by adminNo Comments
FTSE suffers worst one-day fall for more than two years

FTSE suffers worst one-day fall for more than two years

Business
A global share sell-off has seen the FTSE 100 slump on the same scale as the day after the Brexit referendum in 2016. The decline of 3.15%, or 218 points - wiping £56bn off the value of the FTSE's constituent companies - came after the arrest of a top Chinese executive on behalf of the US triggered renewed fears of a trade war.That helped unleash simmering worries about a broad cocktail of worldwide tensions, including a potential recession in the US, turning trading screens red from New York and London to Paris and Frankfurt.A slide in the oil price - with Brent crude falling by more than 3% to less than $ 60 a barrel - also weighed on sentiment.The market meltdown began after it emerged that Canadian authorities had detained Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanz...
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