Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Germany’s beleaguered Wirecard to proceed with business after insolvency
BERLIN (Reuters) - Wirecard, the German scandal-hit payments company, said on Saturday it would proceed with business activities after filing for insolvency and expects a provisional administrator to ...
Jun 27, 2020
Texas mayor orders curfew, as states hard-hit by COVID-19 backtrack on reopening
By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) - A small city on the outskirts of Houston, Texas has instituted a curfew starting Saturday night due to surging cases of the novel coronavirus, the latest move by...
Jun 27, 2020
Pakistan’s national airline moves to assuage concern on ‘dubious’ pilot licences
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's national airline has written to foreign missions and global regulatory and safety bodies, assuring them it has grounded all 141 pilots suspected of obt...
Jun 27, 2020
LGBTQ Americans adjust Pride celebrations in a time of pandemic
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diana and Jillian Rosile of Denver this year would have marked their first Pride celebration as an out queer couple since Diana, a transgender woman, changed her ...
Jun 27, 2020
Australia’s Victoria struggles to contain coronavirus
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's state of Victoria recorded 41 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, double the daily rate seen a week ago, struggling to gain control over the pandemic whil...
Jun 27, 2020
Coronavirus cases in India cross 500,000 as big cities reel from surge
By Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country's total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Satu...
Jun 26, 2020
Attorney General Barr forms panel on ‘anti-government extremism’
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General William Barr on Friday ordered the establishment of a task force to counter what he called "anti-government extremists" committing violence as pr...
Jun 26, 2020
White House does not commit to temperature checks in meeting with U.S. airlines
By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Top U.S. airline executives met on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior administration officials but did not com...
Jun 26, 2020
Three dead after warehouse shooting in central Illinois
(Reuters) - An employee of a coffee-dispenser manufacturer shot and killed two co-workers and wounded a third on Friday at the company's warehouse in Springfield, Illinois, and was later found dead, a...
Jun 26, 2020
U.S. fireworks purveyor sees ‘perfect storm’ of forces behind explosive demand
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - The piercing boom of illegal fireworks in New York is music to the ears of Joe VanOudenhove, who runs a legal fireworks business in Pennsylvania. VanOudenhove is ...
Jun 26, 2020
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