Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Income crisis pushes Colombian cities, provinces to seek market funding
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - After two months of coronavirus quarantine, Colombian cities and towns are bracing for tax income to dry up and venturing into the relatively unfamiliar territor...
May 22, 2020
Exclusive: BP’s Looney halves top management roles in energy transition plan
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - BP is more than halving the size of its senior management team as part of Chief Executive Bernard Looney's drive to make the 111-year-old oil company more nimble as it...
May 22, 2020
GM delays resumption of second shift at three North American truck plants: source
(Reuters) - General Motors Co is delaying the resumption of second shifts at truck assembly plants in Michigan, Indiana and Mexico because of a lack of parts from Mexico, a person briefed on the matte...
May 22, 2020
Polish president’s lead in polls narrows sharply ahead of election
By Marcin Goclowski WARSAW (Reuters) - Conservative Polish President Andrzej Duda has seen his lead narrow sharply ahead of an election expected to take place in coming weeks, opinion polls have shown...
May 22, 2020
Take Five: Coronavirus vaccine race is on
(Reuters) - 1/VACCINE RACE U.S. President Donald Trump has put his faith in anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19, but governments and investors are focusing on a vaccine. Without...
May 22, 2020
Not ‘everything has gone perfectly’, says NHS England head of coronavirus lessons
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should have learned more from other countries who were tackling coronavirus outbreaks earlier, the head of NHS England Simon Stevens said on Friday, acknowledging that not e...
May 22, 2020
Ancient Belgian watermill sees flour demand spike during lockdown
By Francois Lenoir HOLLANGE, Belgium (Reuters) - As Europeans have sought stress relief from baking while under lockdown, one of Belgium's last watermills still producing flour has seen a surge in dem...
May 22, 2020
White House’s Hassett expects June turning point in U.S. employment: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Adviser Kevin Hassett said on Friday he expects that May will mark another dismal month for U.S. employment, but June could mark a turning point for the massive jobl...
May 22, 2020
Turkey hopes ‘healthy tourism’ scheme will conquer coronavirus slump
By Ceyda Caglayan and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - At a luxury hotel in Istanbul, staff in gloves and masks space out and disinfect tables as they prepare for a scheme which Turkey hopes will res...
May 22, 2020
Exclusive: Pentagon halts rare earths funding for Lynas, MP Materials – document, sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense has reversed its decision to fund two projects to process rare earth minerals for military weapons, one of which has controversial ties to China, acc...
May 22, 2020
