World War 2

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low in April as the novel coronavirus wreaked havoc on supply chains, suggesting the economy was sinking deeper into recession. FILE PHOTO: A LB Steel LLC's employee manufactures a component for new Amtrak Acela trains built in partnership with Alstom…

TOPLINE Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has slashed its dividend payment to shareholders by 66%—the first time its cut its dividend since 1945—as coronavirus triggered a dramatic plunge in demand for oil and caused prices to collapse. Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden AFP via Getty Images KEY…

REUTERS/Sergio Moraes Shell reduced its first quarter dividend by 67% from $0.47 to $0.16. It marks the first time since World War II that the Dutch oil giant has cut its dividend, the latest sign of the brutal reality of the oil market crisis. The dividend cut is "more evidence…

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(Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut its dividend for the first time since at least the Second World War as the oil slump triggered by the coronavirus pandemic reshapes the energy industry.The surprise move is the latest illustration of how the international spread of the deadly disease is causing…

Image copyright PA Media Image caption Dame Vera Lynn turned 100 years old in 2017 The Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity is struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, the World War Two Forces' Sweetheart says.An emergency fundraising appeal has been launched by the charity to ensure it can continue to provide…

The BBC has announced a slate of programming to the mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, including an address from the Queen. The monarch will broadcast at 9pm, the exact time her father spoke to the nation three quarters of a century ago on 8 May, the BBC said.…

​The United Kingdom is on course to be among the worst hit European states with more than 20,732 hospital deaths reported as of Saturday. ​But the most stringent lockdown in peacetime history has left the economy facing possibly the deepest recession in three centuries and the biggest debt splurge since…

At the height of the Second World War, in April 1943, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt came to Penn Station, NYC and captured the sorrowful farewell scenes between young soldiers and their families. These forlorn figures, who were bidding goodbyes, seemed to anxiously fear that they might never have any chance…

By Mark Kaufman2020-04-24 09:00:00 UTC There are few worse spots to be during a historic pandemic than a bustling workplace. They're rife with shared door handles, shared bathrooms, shared fridges, shared desks, shared elevators, shared coffee, shared scissors, and inevitably, shared microbes. Unfortunately for humanity, the new coronavirus, an especially…