Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Proportion of COVID-19 contacts reached by English tracing scheme steadies
LONDON (Reuters) - The proportion of the contacts of positive COVID-19 cases reached by England's test and trace system was broadly steady in its fifth week of operation, figures from the health minis...
Jul 16, 2020
Croatian president nominates incumbent Plenkovic as PM-designate
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic nominated the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party leader Andrej Plenkovic as prime minister-designate on Thursday, following a Jul...
Jul 16, 2020
Air France-KLM group receives approval to add more flights to China: French embassy
BEIJING (Reuters) - Air France-KLM Group has received approval to add a second flight from Paris to Shanghai and a new flight from Amsterdam to Shanghai starting next week, the French embassy in Beiji...
Jul 16, 2020
India coronavirus cases near one million, driven by surge in rural areas
By Zeba Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus cases in India neared one million on Thursday as infection numbers rose in the countryside, pushing authorities to reinstate lockdowns acr...
Jul 16, 2020
Malta marks a week without new coronavirus cases
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta marked a week without new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the first since the virus was detected there for the first time on March 7. Health Minister Chris Fearne confirmed i...
Jul 16, 2020
Communication collapse: Inside Facebook’s tussle with Brazil’s central bank
By Carolina Mandl and Marcela Ayres SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Allowing millions of Brazilian users of Facebook's WhatsApp to send money as easily as texts seemed a golden opportunity for the worl...
Jul 16, 2020
Amid national debate on race, Fed’s Bostic sees central bank role on inequality
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - A rising stock market alongside 11% unemployment has put the U.S. Federal Reserve in a quandary amid the national debate over racial and economic fairness: Is it helpin...
Jul 16, 2020
UK intelligence committee to publish Russia report before summer holiday
LONDON (Reuters) - The British parliament's intelligence and security committee unanimously agreed on Thursday it would publish the report on Russian influence in politics before the chamber rises for...
Jul 16, 2020
Judges rule girl who travelled to Syria can return to UK challenge citizenship removal
LONDON (Reuters) - British judges on Thursday ruled that Shamima Begum, a London schoolgirl who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the removal...
Jul 16, 2020
Siemens to let staff spend less time in the office permanently
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens has decided to let its employees work from wherever they want for two or three days a week, in the latest example of how the coronavirus is making major companies ...
Jul 16, 2020
