Nissan, reeling from a scandal over its former superstar executive Carlos Ghosn, says it sank into red ink for the latest quarter as its vehicle sales fell around the world By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer February 13, 2020, 10:00 AM 4 min read TOKYO — Nissan, reeling from a scandal over its former superstar […]
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YOKOHAMA, Japan — Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom. Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port with scores of cases of a new virus, means experiencing all these things, according to interviews by The Associated Press with passengers and a growing stream of tweets and YouTube videos. At
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Snow Patrol played the first Latitude in 2006 but had to cancel their headline slot in 2019 Snow Patrol say they are “thrilled” to have been invited back to the Latitude Festival, a year after illness forced the band to vacate their headline slot. The group pulled out a
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Image copyright Getty Images British Gas owner Centrica has blamed a big loss in 2019 on the energy price cap and falling gas prices. Centrica made a loss of £849m in the year ended 31 December compared with a £987m profit the year before. That sent the share price tumbling by 15% in early trading
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Tokyo Olympic organizers repeated their message again at the start of meetings with the IOC: the Summer Games will not be waylaid by the coronavirus that is spreading from neighboring China By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer February 13, 2020, 2:46 AM 3 min read TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic organizers reiterated their message on Thursday
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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Giovanni Russonello, your morning newsletter writer taking over your afternoon edition. The big headline from New Hampshire is that Bernie Sanders is now a clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination heading into the heart of primary season, when the playing field
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The WHO has said a vaccine will likely be found but it will take time Some 242 deaths from the new coronavirus were recorded in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday – the deadliest day of the outbreak. There was also a huge increase in the number of
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Taika Waititi confirms he’s worthy. After collecting an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday, the “Jojo Rabbit” filmmaker spoke with Variety, where he chatted about everything from “Star Wars” to Marvel. During the conversation, the magazine asked if the director would like Tessa Thompson’s superhero character, Valkyrie, to be “explicitly queer” in his upcoming movie “Thor:
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has the full confidence of the board, the bank said UK regulators are probing Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The probe by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority will focus on Mr Staley’s “characterisation to the
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For more than a decade, it has been an elusive dream for election officials: a smartphone app that would let swaths of voters cast their ballots from their living rooms. It has also been a nightmare for cyberexperts, who argue that no technology is secure enough to trust with the very basis of American democracy.
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