Author Archives: Syndicated Content
“Don’t cancel, postpone,” Portugal urges tourists in voucher scheme
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal will give vouchers to tourists forced to cancel their holiday plans in Portugal because of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing them to reschedule trips u...
Apr 23, 2020
Austrian ski resort tainted by coronavirus wants less ‘party tourism’
VIENNA (Reuters) - The Alpine ski resort of Ischgl, at the centre of Austria's biggest cluster of coronavirus infections, said on Thursday it wants to move away from "party tourism" as it emerged from...
Apr 23, 2020
South Africa’s SAA faces wind-down or liquidation, rescue team says
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Specialists appointed to try to save state-owned South African Airways (SAA) said on Thursday that they had no further funds for rescue efforts and that the two remaining opti...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Plain robbery’: Lebanese fume as dollar savings hit by financial crisis
By Eric Knecht and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Ziad Abdallah has watched with growing alarm as Lebanon's financial meltdown has threatened the savings he spent 25 years building up in his dollar ac...
Apr 23, 2020
Hershey pulls 2020 forecast, warns of weak sales as consumers curb spending
(Reuters) - Hershey Co pulled its 2020 forecast on Thursday and warned of weak sales in certain categories as households worried about their financial futures cut spending on snacks and chocolates. Th...
Apr 23, 2020
Developing world needs $1 trillion debt write-off: U.N. agency
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Around $1 trillion of debt owed by developing countries should be cancelled under a global deal to help them overcome the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United...
Apr 23, 2020
Czechs pack test centres in large coronavirus antibody study
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czechs flocked to screening centres on Thursday in a project to test 27,000 people for coronavirus antibodies to gauge how far the infection has spread and help decide how rapidly t...
Apr 23, 2020
U.S. Treasury says will be hard for public companies to qualify for coronavirus relief loans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A highly-valued public company will have a hard time getting a coronavirus relief loan, the U.S. Treasury on Thursday said, just as Congress was poised to approve a new round of...
Apr 23, 2020
Some Americans going back to work, even as virus erases more jobs
By Ann Saphir and Susan Heavey (Reuters) - Some workers in Georgia and other U.S. states prepared to go back to work for the first time in a month, as data released on Thursday showing soaring unemplo...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Don’t give up’, French virus survivor tells others fighting disease
By Clotaire Achi and Benoit Tessier STAINS, France (Reuters) - On April 5, 61-year-old Mang Phother felt his breathing getting worse and worse. Two days later he was rushed to a hospital in Paris' nor...
Apr 23, 2020
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