Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
(Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and faili...
Apr 08, 2020
Trains full on first day of Japan’s coronavirus emergency, but some shops shut
By Tim Kelly and Sarah Aoyagi TOKYO (Reuters) - Commuters heading to work packed into trains in the Japanese capital on Wednesday, the first day of a state of emergency aimed at containing the coronav...
Apr 08, 2020
UK PM Johnson stable after second night in intensive care battling COVID-19
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night in intensive care and was in a stable condition after receiving oxygen support for COVID-19 complications while his foreign...
Apr 08, 2020
Exclusive: China’s central bank to step up easing, won’t borrow Fed playbook – sources
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank will ramp up its policy easing to support the coronavirus-ravaged economy but debt worries and property risks will prevent it from following the U...
Apr 08, 2020
With supplies back, Hong Kong expats ship masks home to coronavirus hot spots
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Expatriates in Hong Kong are buying up masks to send to family and friends back home as supplies return to shops in the Asian financial hub and the coronavirus spreads around the...
Apr 08, 2020
Pulp friction: Border jams delay supply of toilet paper’s only ingredient
By Richa Naidu and Siddharth Cavale LONDON/BENGALURU (Reuters) - As several European borders limit travel to stop the spread of COVID-19, two of the world's biggest pulp makers say transportation logj...
Apr 08, 2020
Wobbly U.S. fiscal response could deepen coronavirus recession
By Howard Schneider and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's massive effort to nurse the economy through the coronavirus crisis was billed as a send-money-and-don't-sweat-the-deta...
Apr 08, 2020
New Zealand PM cautiously optimistic about coronavirus, urges Easter ‘staycation’
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said on Wednesday she was cautiously optimistic about slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus as authorities reported the lowest nu...
Apr 07, 2020
Tesla to furlough workers, cut employee salaries due to coronavirus
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Tesla Inc told employees on Tuesday it would furlough all non-essential workers and implement salary cuts during a shut down of its U.S. production facilities because of the...
Apr 07, 2020
African-Americans dying of coronavirus at higher rates, preliminary data shows
By Brad Brooks, Michael Martina and Catherine Koppel (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is killing African-Americans at a higher rate than the U.S. population at large, according to preliminary numbers f...
Apr 07, 2020
