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Australia’s most populous state braces for travel chaos as schools, offices reopen
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state on Monday deployed hundreds of crowd control staff to enforce social distancing on public transport amid an expected commuter surge as schools and of...
May 24, 2020
Australia won’t make ‘wholesale changes’ to wage subsidies: treasurer
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has no plans to make "wholesale changes" to its coronavirus wage subsidy scheme, after reporting errors revised the total cost estimates to the programme by around A$60 bi...
May 24, 2020
U.S. court rules Florida cannot force felons to pay fees before voting
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Sunday that the state of Florida cannot force felons to pay legal fines and other fees before allowing them to register to vote. The ruli...
May 24, 2020
Coronavirus could cost Mexico a million jobs: president
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that the novel coronavirus could cost as many as a million jobs in the country as many industries considered not es...
May 24, 2020
Brazil, world No. 2 coronavirus hotspot, suffers 653 new deaths
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil, the world's No. 2 coronavirus hotspot behind the United States, registered 653 new coronavirus deaths on Sunday, taking the total number of fatalities to 22,666, the Heal...
May 24, 2020
In China’s auto market, worries grow that cashback deals and gifts presage damaging price war
By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh HANGZHOU, China/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Cashback offers, up to 10 free oil changes, generous prepaid gasoline cards - these are just some of the giveaways China's auto dealers...
May 24, 2020
NBA: Big man Leuer announces retirement
Forward Jon Leuer announced his retirement Sunday after eight NBA seasons. The 31-year-old Leuer didn't play in the 2019-20 season after being waived by the Milwaukee Bucks in July. Leuer made his ann...
May 24, 2020
Japan eyeing second extra budget worth over $929 billion: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is considering compiling a second extra budget for the current fiscal year worth over 100 trillion yen ($929.45 billion) to combat the economic fallout from the co...
May 24, 2020
White House limits travel to U.S. from Brazil due to coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House announced Sunday that it is prohibiting foreigners from traveling to the United States if they had been in Brazil in the last two weeks, two days after the South...
May 24, 2020
UK’s Sunak authorises bailout plan to rescue strategically important companies: FT
(Reuters) - British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has authorised a bailout plan to rescue companies that are seen as strategically important, with the state expected to buy stakes in crucial businesses...
May 24, 2020
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