Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil govt revises 2020 primary budget deficit to record $97 billion
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government on Friday sharply revised its 2020 budget deficit forecast to a record 540.5 billion reais ($97 billion), reflecting the huge hit to revenues...
May 22, 2020
U.S. charges Hollywood film distributor with defrauding BlackRock fund
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged the founder and former owner of a Hollywood movie production and distribution company with defrauding a BlackRock Inc invest...
May 22, 2020
Automaker trade opposes effort to freeze U.S. fuel efficiency standards
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing many major automakers on Friday said it was intervening in a lawsuit that says the Trump administration did not go far enough in weakeni...
May 22, 2020
Burundi police detain more than 200 opposition election observers
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundian police detained more than 200 opposition electoral observers during this week's election, the spokesman for the main opposition National Freedom Council (CNL) told Reuter...
May 22, 2020
Organizers cancel 2020 New York auto show
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - Organizers said Friday they were canceling the 2020 New York auto show that had previously been pushed back until August, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and th...
May 22, 2020
Muslims pray in Berlin church to comply with social distancing rules
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin church is hosting Muslims who are unable to fit into their mosque for Friday prayers because of social distancing guidelines. The Dar Assalam mosque in the Neuklln district...
May 22, 2020
UK court throws out Nigerian oil corruption case against Shell, Eni
LONDON (Reuters) - An English court threw out a $1.1 billion case Nigeria had brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni related to a dispute over the OPL 245 oilfield, a court document showed on Frida...
May 22, 2020
Isolation not enough to save Amazon indigenous village from COVID-19
By Bruno Kelly TRES UNIDOS, BRAZIL (Reuters) - Tres Unidos, an indigenous village in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, locked out all visitors, hoping that isolation would keep it safe. And yet the new coro...
May 22, 2020
Specialist Leisure Group falls to virus crisis, cuts 2,500 jobs
(Reuters) - Holiday package provider Specialist Leisure Group entered administration on Friday and would lay off nearly 2,500 jobs, becoming the latest victim of the coronavirus crisis that has brough...
May 22, 2020
French court orders insurer AXA to pay restaurant’s COVID-19 losses
By Elizabeth Pineau and Maya Nikolaeva PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris court ruled that insurer AXA must pay a restaurant owner two months' worth of coronavirus-related revenue losses, the restaurateur's la...
May 22, 2020
