Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Players’ union concerned over heightened injury risk
BERN (Reuters) - Players may be at an increased risk of injury as professional sports rush back into action following the coronavirus stoppage, a global union representing 85,000 athletes said on Thur...
Jun 04, 2020
UK firms cut borrowing again through BoE COVID facility
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England lending to businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak fell for a second week running since the programme launched in March. The BoE said its holdings of commerc...
Jun 04, 2020
French debt seen at 121% of GDP this year: sources
PARIS (Reuters) - The French 2020 budget update due next week sees public debt reaching 120.9% of GDP this year as the government spends billions of euros to soften the impact of the coronavirus crisi...
Jun 04, 2020
Canada’s trade plunges in April as auto, oil shipments slump
By Kelsey Johnson OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's exports and imports plunged in April on falling oil prices and as the coronavirus pandemic shut down factories and retail stores, Statistics Canada said o...
Jun 04, 2020
EU regulators to warn EssilorLuxottica about Dutch deal, sources say
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will warn EssilorLuxottica that its 7.2-billion-euro ($8.1 billion) bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision could harm competition, people familiar with ...
Jun 04, 2020
‘Violence provokes violence’, Mandela Foundation says in support of U.S. protests
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Thursday violence can be a rational response to racism and for some communities is the only way to elicit change, as protests ...
Jun 04, 2020
Self-driving cars could only prevent a third of U.S. crashes: study
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Self-driving cars, long touted by developers as a way to eliminate road deaths, could likely only prevent a third of all U.S. road crashes, an analysis of traffic accidents ...
Jun 04, 2020
Tyson the alpaca takes heavyweight role in search for coronavirus vaccine
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has kille...
Jun 04, 2020
Azerbaijan orders big city residents to stay home this weekend to halt virus
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan will order everyone to stay home this weekend in big cities, including the capital Baku, in tightened coronavirus restrictions after the country's number of infections rose...
Jun 04, 2020
Mercedes to share F1 reserves with McLaren and Racing Point
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One world champions Mercedes will share reserve drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Esteban Gutierrez with the Racing Point and McLaren teams this season, a spokesman said on Thur...
Jun 04, 2020
