Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain aims to reopen borders to tourism in late June
By Emma Pinedo and Inti Landauro MADRID/VALENCIA (Reuters) - Tourism-dependent Spain aims to reopen borders to visitors around the end of June as its coronavirus lockdown fully unwinds, a minister sai...
May 18, 2020
Coffees and creches: Portuguese enjoy some normality again
By Catarina Demony and Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) - Cafes served morning coffee, creches reopened and masked pupils went back to school for the first time in months as Portugal entered a seco...
May 18, 2020
Automated delivery cashes in on pandemic-driven demand
By Paul Lienert and Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - The coronavirus crisis is accelerating a shift in the world of autonomous cars toward delivering packages instead of people, as big players open up a le...
May 18, 2020
China to deepen market-based interest rate reform, push property tax law
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will deepen market-based interest rate reform and minimize direct interference from government on microeconomic activities, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Monday, ad...
May 18, 2020
China’s Xi says supports WHO probe when COVID-19 controlled
BEIJING (Reuters) - China supports a comprehensive review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic led by the World Health Organization (WHO) after the virus that causes the disease is brought ...
May 18, 2020
China’s Wuhan says conducted 335,887 COVID-19 tests on May 17
BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 335,887 nucleic acid tests on May 17, the local health authority said on Monday, compa...
May 18, 2020
Explainer: The U.N. tribunal set up to try Rwanda genocide perpetrators
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - French gendarmes arrested Felicien Kabuga, wanted for allegedly financing the Rwandan genocide, near Paris on May 16 after a global manhunt spanning more than a ...
May 18, 2020
Esports: Leclerc’s girlfriend subscribes to get him to open the door
(Reuters) - Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc has gained a special subscriber to his Twitch streaming channel after his girlfriend found herself locked out of his Monaco apartment while he wa...
May 18, 2020
Putin says coronavirus situation in southern Russia’s Dagestan is difficult
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the coronavirus situation in Russia's southern region of Dagestan was particularly difficult and that the mainly Muslim region's healthcare s...
May 18, 2020
Longer-lasting coronavirus shock to hit Spain’s GDP further in Q2-Bank of Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - The economic impact from the coronavirus pandemic will last longer than initially expected and the Spanish economy could experience a significant deterioration in the second quarter...
May 18, 2020
