Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Disney says it will reopen shopping area at Florida resort on Wednesday
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will partially reopen its Disney Springs entertainment and shopping complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida on May 20, it said late on Saturday. Disney and unions rep...
May 17, 2020
China urges food companies to boost supplies on fears of further COVID-19 disruption
By Naveen Thukral and Hallie Gu SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China has asked trading firms and food processors to boost inventories of grains and oilseeds as a possible second wave of coronavirus cas...
May 17, 2020
Japan COVID-19 doctors lack fresh masks, hazard pay: union survey
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese hospital doctors on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic face tough working conditions, with many reusing masks and few getting hazard pay, a survey by a labour union sho...
May 17, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern turned away from cafe under coronavirus rules
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Hailed for her leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner were turned away from a cafe on Saturday because it was too f...
May 17, 2020
Dancers bring Saturday night fever back to Wuhan as lockdown relaxed
By Xihao Jiang and Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Wearing masks and keeping about a metre apart, men and women in Wuhan were dancing once again on a Saturday night by the side of the Yangtze rive...
May 16, 2020
U.S. Bankruptcy Court allows J.C. Penney to keep paying staff and vendors
(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc said on Saturday a U.S. Bankruptcy Court will allow it to keep paying wages and benefits to workers who will remain on the job after the U.S. department store chain file...
May 16, 2020
Brazil registers 14,919 new coronavirus cases, 816 deaths
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil confirmed 14,919 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, as well as 816 related deaths, according to data from the Health Ministry. Brazil has now registered 233,14...
May 16, 2020
CDC reports 1,435,098 coronavirus cases, 87,315 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported a total of 1,435,098 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 22,977 cases from its previous count, and s...
May 16, 2020
White House says Trump fired State Dept. watchdog at Pompeo’s request
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired the State Department's inspector general following a recommendation by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the White House said on Saturday. "...
May 16, 2020
Fed says around 600 smaller banks tapped PPP facility in its first days
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Around 600 banks, most of them small community institutions, tapped the Federal Reserve's Paycheck Protection Program facility for about $30 billion of loans as of May 6, the U....
May 16, 2020
