Bloomberg President Donald Trump sought to show his personal engagement in the fight against coronavirus, meeting with drug company executives to elicit promises of new medicines and announcing he’ll visit federal health agencies later in the week. At the White House meeting, executives from Gilead Sciences Inc, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi, Pfizer Inc and other manufacturers told Trump ...

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG unveiled a prototype for a battery-powered SUV to flank its ID.3 hatchback later this year and play a key role in strengthening the German manufacturer’s global push into electric cars. The marque’s first fully-electric SUV — dubbed ID.4 —is set to help take output of battery-powered vehicles to as many as 1.5 million cars by 2025, the ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc is “strongly encouraging” its almost 5,000 global employees to work from home due to concerns over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the company said. The social media company made the suggestion as part of a blog update one day after it suspended all non-critical travel for workers, including pulling out of the South by Southwest conference ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk gave a public sign of support for Twitter Inc co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey after an activist investor called for changes at the company including possibly replacing its leader. “Just want say that I support @jack as Twitter CEO. He has a good heart,” Musk tweeted, using a heart emoji in place of the word. ...

Bloomberg British farmer Richard Bramley should be about to plant barley and sugar beet on his land near York. Instead, he’s watching the waves roll over his flooded fields. Bramley, like other growers across the UK, had been hoping to catch a break after heavy rains spoiled grain plantings late last year. But the wettest-ever February has submerged fields, making ...

Bloomberg Russia’s military conducted “indiscriminate” bombardments against civilians in Syria last year, and human rights violations in the nine-year-old conflict continue to multiply, according to a United Nations panel investigating the conflict. In one attack last year, Russian airstrikes targeted a compound of displaced civilians in a rural area that was surrounded by agricultural fields in southern Idlib, according to ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has pledged to fight corruption and strengthen governance, saying he is no traitor but stepped in to save the country from political turmoil. “I know there are those who are angry with me,” he said in his first televised address to the nation as prime minister. “As expected, there are parties who called ...

Bloomberg Senegal’s government confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, the second in sub-Saharan Africa. The patient is a French national who arrived in Dakar, the capital, on February 26, Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told reporters at a briefing broadcast on Facebook. The man sought help two days later after suffering from fever, headache and a sore throat, and is ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration ordered four Chinese state-owned news outlets to slash the number of staff they have working in the US, part of a broader response to Beijing’s restrictions on American journalists including its expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters last month. The move risks further tit-for-tat measures from Beijing as the world’s biggest economies continue a broader ...

Bloomberg Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must submit to a deposition by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that sued over her use of a private email server, a federal judge ruled. Though Clinton has submitted extensive evidence about her use of the server while in office, US District Judge Royce Lamberth said in Washington that questions remain about ...