Month: December 2021

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament is set to debate a proposed vaccine mandate for hospital and nursing home staff, among other measures meant to help break the country’s biggest wave so far of coronavirus infections. At a special session Tuesday, parliament’s lower house also will discuss plans for vaccinations to

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as anxiety about the coronavirus’s latest variant eases. London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Shanghai advanced. Oil prices gained for a second day. Wall Street futures were higher after the chief White House medical adviser said the omicron variant might

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers tries to avoid a default on its $310 billion mountain of debt. Evergrande Group, which is scrambling to turn assets into cash, rattled financial markets Friday when it warned it might run out

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s incoming governing parties have signed their agreement for what they portray as a progressive coalition, a day before Olaf Scholz is due to succeed longtime leader Angela Merkel as chancellor. The agreement hammered out last month between Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats, the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats received strong

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says that it is changing its official workweek to Monday to Friday, a change that will start next month. The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency said on Tuesday that as of January, government employees would work a half-day on Friday,

PARIS (AP) — French firefighters are searching through rubble for four people feared buried in an explosion that collapsed a three-story apartment building on southern France’s Mediterranean coast. Authorities for the southern Var region said one person was pulled in critical condition from the building’s remains and three others required emergency medical treatment following the

MILAN (AP) — Carmaker Stellantis announced a strategy Tuesday to embed AI-enabled software in 34 million vehicles across its 14 brands targeting 20 billion euros ($22.6 billion) in annual revenues by 2030.  CEO Carlos Tavares heralded the move as part of a strategy that would transform the car company into a “sustainable mobility tech company,”

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen plans to pay an official visit early next month to military-ruled Myanmar, seeking to patch up the generals’ battered relationship with Southeast Asia’s regional bloc of nations. Hun Sen’s visit would be the first by a head of government to