Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
‘Like watching a train wreck’: The coronavirus effect on North Dakota shale oilfields
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil executive Bill Kent was with fellow managers in the Colorado board room of Resource Energy headquarters on April 20 when benchmark U....
May 04, 2020
Italy joins nations warily leaving lockdown amid fears of ‘second wave’
By Gavin Jones and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Italy was among a slew of countries easing lockdown restrictions on Monday to resurrect their economies, but officials cautioned against moving ...
May 04, 2020
Exclusive: Internal Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
BEIJING (Reuters) - An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confront...
May 04, 2020
Discounts may help cure U.S. auto market’s coronavirus hangover
By Nick Carey (Reuters) - Texas auto dealer Hayden Elder says March was his worst month in 42 years selling cars thanks to the coronavirus, but April brought days that were "almost normal" and he expe...
May 04, 2020
Special Report: How Turkey’s courts turned on Erdogan’s foes
By Reuters Staff ISTANBUL (Reuters) - It took 16 judges to convict Kurdish politicians Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel of belonging to a terrorist organization last year. Their trial in Diyarbakir, ...
May 04, 2020
Futures hit by U.S.-China tension; airlines tumble as Berkshire pulls away
By Shreyashi Sanyal and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures retreated on Monday after a fresh spat between Washington and Beijing over the origin of the novel coronavirus, while airlines ...
May 04, 2020
U.S. arms makers and medical device firms team up to make ventilators
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. weapons makers have teamed up with medical device companies to increase the supply of ventilators that can be used to combat the coronavirus pandemic, people ...
May 04, 2020
J. Crew files for bankruptcy protection
(Reuters) - J. Crew Group Inc filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, adding to an array of brick-and-mortar retailers pushed to the brink by widespread store closures in response to the coronaviru...
May 04, 2020
Explainer: When will PM Johnson send Britain back to work?
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due this week to present a possible way out of the coronavirus lockdown to get the world's fifth largest economy back to...
May 04, 2020
North Korea defectors criticised over speculation Kim was ill or dead
SEOUL (Reuters) - A former senior North Korean diplomat apologised on Monday after saying leader Kim Jong Un was likely so ill he could not stand, days before he emerged in state media chain smoking a...
May 04, 2020
