VW plots US truck expansion with $2.9 billion Navistar offer
Volkswagen AG offered to buy the rest of Navistar International Corp. in a $2.9 billion bid to secure a bridgehead in the U.S. heavy-truck market…
Zimbabwe lifts ban on GM corn imports in bid to avert famine
Zimbabwe has quietly lifted a ban on imports of genetically modified corn for the first time in 12 years as the southern African nation begins…
VietJet to suspend flights to China February 1 due to coronavirus
Vietnam’s budget carrier VietJet Aviation JSC will suspend all of its fights to China February 1 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the airline said in…
For $193, a flight to New York with a six-hour stopover in Wuhan
Bargain flights between Hong Kong and New York have emerged in the wake of the new coronavirus, as long as travelers are willing to stop…
Italy confirms two virus cases, halts air traffic with China
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said two coronavirus patients are currently in isolation in a Rome hospital and moved to cancel flights to and from…
More China flights dropped as US tells Americans not to go
Singapore Airlines and its SilkAir unit will cut flights to seven cities in China, including Beijing and Shanghai starting Feb. 3 to March 1., adding…
Thwarting smugglers leave Nigerians counting costs of stony rice
In Adeola Adejare’s market store in Lagos, two teenage boys separate stones from Nigerian rice, preparing it for sale after the government closed land borders…
U.S., Japan warn citizens to avoid travel to China: Virus update
The U.S. and Japanese governments advised their citizens to avoid travel to China as the spread of the coronavirus showed few signs of abating.
Global cases surpass SARS; WHO declares emergency: Virus update
The death toll in China from the coronavirus rose to 213, as the World Health Organization declared a health emergency for a disease that now…
American Air union boss tells pilots to refuse China flights
The pilots’ union at American Airlines Group Inc. told members to decline further flights to China because of the health risk posed by the coronavirus,…
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