Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Polish coal producer to cut pay and hours by 20% in May
WARSAW (Reuters) - Trade unions at Poland's biggest coal producer, state-run PGG, have agreed to the company reducing hours and pay by 20% in May, which would make PGG eligible for government help. Po...
May 08, 2020
Portugal’s exports and imports slump in March as pandemic bites
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's exports fell by 13% in March after a near 1% rise the previous month as the coronavirus crisis shut down large parts of the economy, data from the National Statistics Ins...
May 08, 2020
ECB’s latest asset purchase programme meets principles of proportionality: Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Finance Ministry has concluded that the ECB's latest asset purchase programme to tackle the coronavirus pandemic meets the principles of proportionality defined by German...
May 08, 2020
U.S. joblessness slams Latinos, less educated with brutal force
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy's record run of job growth and historically low unemployment has been stopped in its tracks by the fight against the coronavirus pandemic: j...
May 08, 2020
Malta pulls out of new EU Libya sea patrols in migration row
By Chris Scicluna and Robin Emmott VALETTA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Malta told its European Union partners on Friday it would no longer take part in a new Mediterranean mission to stop more arms reach war...
May 08, 2020
Dutch watchdog to investigate TikTok’s use of children’s data
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch privacy watchdog said on Friday it would investigate how Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which has become hugely popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, handles th...
May 08, 2020
Ugandan hospital, Somali town washed away by East Africa floods
By Duncan Miriri and Elias Biryabarema NAIROBI/KAMPALA (Reuters) - Flooding washed away roads, bridges and a hospital in Uganda and an entire small town in Somalia as torrential rain across East Afric...
May 08, 2020
Spanish cat tests positive for coronavirus
By Clara-Laeila Laudette MADRID (Reuters) - A cat belonging to a family in the Spanish region of Catalonia tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the professor who conducted an autopsy on the pet ...
May 08, 2020
Ireland says Brexit trade talks timeline ‘virtually impossible’
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has made an already difficult timeline for a British-European Union trade deal "virtually impossible", Ireland's foreign minister said, cautioning that he d...
May 08, 2020
Kuwait imposes ‘total curfew’ May 10-30 to curb coronavirus: Information Ministry
DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait will enact a "total curfew" from 4 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Sunday through to May 30 to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the Information Ministry said on Twitter on Frid...
May 08, 2020
