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European airlines have been running near-empty flights in order to retain valuable airport slots, drawing criticism from climate activists.

Gridserve says the British forecourt will open this summer and use "superchargers".

Russia has refused to rule out talks with OPEC to stabilize energy markets, according to reports.

A range of banks and financial institutions have offered their worst-case scenarios for 2020, as the spread of the new coronavirus impacts the global economy and roils financial markets.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told his entire nation to "stay at home" on Monday evening as the country experiences the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.

"Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on a conference call Monday.

It comes after OPEC and non-OPEC allies, sometimes referred to as OPEC+, failed to agree on the terms of deeper supply cuts late last week.

Epidemics have emerged in countries across the world, notably in Iran, Italy, and South Korea, where the number of cases and the death toll are rapidly increasing.

The way factories operate is changing thanks to new advances in tech.

The Italian prime minister vowed Monday to deploy a "massive shock therapy" in the form of economic stimulus as the coronavirus keeps spreading throughout the country and pushes it toward recession.

The Pan American Health Organization is the WHO's international health agency focused on the Americas.

OPEC and non-OPEC allies have failed to agree on how much production to cut amid the coronavirus crisis.

The death toll from the coronavirus in Italy — Europe's epicenter — rose dramatically Thursday, taking the total to 148.

The virus has sent global stock markets falling, manufacturing has slowed as factories close their doors, and companies have been forced to cancel planned events around the world.

Market participants are not making "rational" decisions when trading on the back of the coronavirus outbreak, an economist told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Friday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding a press conference Thursday to update the public on the COVID-19 outbreak.

The organization has yet to classify the virus as a pandemic and has maintained that its attention is on containing the spread.

Officials from Brussels and Westminster had their first post-Brexit discussions this week in the Belgian capital.

Ant Financial has invested in Swedish financial technology start-up Klarna as part of a global e-commerce partnership between the two firms.