Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Russia calls for immediate ceasefire in Libya conflict
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya, adding that Turkey and Egypt agreed with Moscow's approach to the settlement of that c...
Jun 23, 2020
Bank of Spain head wants economic reforms, sees late 2020 recovery
By Jess Aguado and Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's damaged economy needs urgent structural reforms to cope with the coronavirus impact, including letting smaller companies grow to compete bette...
Jun 23, 2020
Luckin Coffee picks Houlihan Lokey for financial, strategic advice: sources
By Tom Arnold and Arno Schuetze LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Luckin Coffee has picked investment bank Houlihan Lokey as an adviser, according to sources close to the matter, following an accounting sc...
Jun 23, 2020
COVID backlash is worst scenario, says Djokovic’s brother
By Zoran Milosavljevic BELGRADE (Reuters) - The debacle of the Adria Tour organised by world number one Novak Djokovic was the worst imaginable outcome as several participants tested positive for COVI...
Jun 23, 2020
Amid coronavirus, reduced voting sites in Kentucky, elsewhere a ‘recipe for disaster’
By John Whitesides (Reuters) - Kentucky, New York and four other states face another possibly messy day of voting on Tuesday amid the coronavirus outbreak, as officials try to balance a crush of absen...
Jun 23, 2020
German economy to shrink by 6.5% this year due to coronavirus: economic advisers
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy will shrink by 6.5% this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's council of economic advisers said on Tuesday, adding that the slump will be prolon...
Jun 23, 2020
AOC, other progressive U.S. Democrats fight to expand influence with Tuesday primaries
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York state holds primary elections on Tuesday to determine the fate of progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other U.S. House members, tes...
Jun 23, 2020
French StopCovid app led to 1.8 million activations as of June 22
PARIS (Reuters) - France's state-supported "StopCovid" contact-tracing app has been downloaded by 1.9 million people, roughly 2% of the population, leading to 1.8 million activations as of June 22, di...
Jun 23, 2020
India money supply surge signals pandemic-related uncertainty, not growth
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) - Heightened uncertainty in India caused by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in currency in circulation as people hoard cash or p...
Jun 23, 2020
Have gun will travel: Coronavirus at meat plants builds demand for mobile butchers
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Slaughtering cattle is a solitary, but personal business for Gerrit vande Bruinhorst, 55, the mobile butcher of Picture Butte, Alberta. On this day, vande ...
Jun 23, 2020
