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Deloitte UK partner pay rises further past £1mn
Deloitte’s British isles partners took home £1,058,000 on normal this yr thanks to booming action in its mergers and acquisitions advisory enterprise, but the Significant Four auditor’s boss warned that it faced “economic headwinds”. The figure topped last year’s payout by £8,000 but the 2021 outcome was boosted by the sale of a enterprise. This time,
Oil Rises 1%, Hits Highest in a Year on Growth Hopes, OPEC+ Output Cuts | Investing News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose about 1% on Friday, after hitting their highest in a year and closing in on $60 a barrel, supported by economic revival hopes and supply curbs by producer group OPEC and its allies. Oil was also supported as U.S. stock markets hit record highs on signs of progress
Kim Jong Un’s sister rises in North Korea hierarchy
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful younger sister has been reinstated to a key decision-making body, state media reported on Sunday (Apr 12), marking her rise in the isolated nation. Long one of her brother’s closest advisers, Kim Yo Jong was reappointed an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in
COVID-19: Malaysia reports 184 new cases, death toll rises by 3
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian health authorities reported 184 additional confirmed cases of the new coronavirus on Saturday (Apr 11), raising the cumulative tally to 4,530, the highest number for any country in Southeast Asia. The latest data includes three new deaths, raising total fatalities from the outbreak to 73. Advertisement Advertisement Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said the 71st fatality
COVID-19: Italy’s daily toll rises to 636, but new cases fall sharply
ROME: Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 636 on Monday (Apr 6), more than 100 higher than the previous daily tally of 525, the Civil Protection Agency said, but the number of new cases fell sharply. The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb 21 came to 16,523, the
Spain’s COVID-19 death toll rises by 674 but pace keeps slowing
MADRID: The rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths in Spain slowed again on Sunday (Apr 5) as the country, suffering from one of the world’s worst outbreaks of the pandemic, began its fourth week under a near-total lockdown. Deaths from the highly infectious COVID-19 respiratory disease rose to 12,418 on Saturday – the second-highest
Italy COVID-19 death toll rises by 681, intensive care falls
MILAN: The death toll from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 681 to 15,362, a somewhat lower rise than those seen in recent days, while the number of patients in intensive care fell for the first time, the Civil Protection Agency said on Saturday (Apr 4). “It is important because it allows our hospitals
US coronavirus death toll rises past 3,000 on deadliest day
NEW YORK: The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday (Mar 30), the deadliest day yet in the country’s mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed US Navy hospital ship as a sign of hope in the city’s desperate fight. In a grim new milestone marking the spread
Spain’s COVID-19 death toll rises by 838 overnight to 6,528
MADRID: Spain awoke to its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday (Mar 29), as the government met to approve a strengthening of measures and the coronavirus death toll rose by a record 838 cases overnight to 6,528. Second only to Italy in fatalities, Spain also saw infections rise to 78,797 from 72,248 the day
130 new COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, death toll rises to 26
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 130 new COVID-19 cases on Friday (Mar 27), bringing the country’s total to 2,161. “A total of 54 positive cases are being treated in the intensive care unit, of which 34 are in need of ventilators,” Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said. Advertisement Advertisement He added that 44 more patients have been discharged on Friday,
Malaysia reports 235 new COVID-19 cases, death toll rises to 23
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Thursday (Mar 26) reported 235 new COVID-19 cases, taking the national total to 2,031 – the highest in Southeast Asia. The health ministry also said the country’s death toll increased to 23, as of 5pm on Thursday. Advertisement Advertisement Sixty of the new cases are related to a cluster linked to a
Malaysia COVID-19 death toll rises to 19; 172 new cases reported
PUTRAJAYA: A total of 172 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Wednesday (Mar 25), bringing the total number of cases in Malaysia to 1,796 since the start of the outbreak, while the total number of deaths rose by three to 19. Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said initial investigations indicated that of the 172 new cases, 71 were linked to the Sri Petaling mosque
Spain COVID-19 death toll rises by 514 to 2,696
MADRID: Another 514 people have died in Spain over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,696, as the number of infections surged towards 40,000, the government said Tuesday (Mar 24). As the health authorities step up the number of tests, the number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 rose by nearly
Commentary: Funeral homes and morgues face challenges as coronavirus death toll rises
MELBOURNE: The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that funerals would be limited to a maximum of ten people to limit the spread of COVID-19. However, the states may have some leeway in permitting an extra one