Category Archives: Syndicated
Greece to require negative coronavirus test for entry from Sweden, Spain, Belgium
ATHENS (Reuters) - Visitors to Greece arriving from Sweden, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic will need proof they have tested negative for the novel coronavirus to gain entry, th...
Aug 10, 2020
Iran closes down newspaper after expert doubts official coronavirus tolls
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country's tolls from the epidemic could be 20 times higher th...
Aug 10, 2020
Afghan President signs decree to release final batch of Taliban prisoners – sources
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani on Monday issued a decree to release the final batch of prisoners demanded by the insurgent Taliban as a condition to move to peace talks, source...
Aug 10, 2020
U.S., European Commission begin discussions enhanced privacy shield framework: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department and the European Commission have begun discussing how to create a privacy shield framework that would comply with the European Union top court's jud...
Aug 10, 2020
20,000 paper birds help fund COVID-19 units at Belgium hospital
By Kate Abnett and Yves Herman BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A flock of 20,000 multicoloured origami birds has been installed in a cathedral in Brussels, Belgium, as part of a fundraising artwork that has paid...
Aug 10, 2020
Putin pushes for more integration with Belarus after election unrest
By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted neighbouring Belarus to reactivate stalled plans for more integration with Russia after a contes...
Aug 10, 2020
Federal Reserve announces post-stress test capital ratios for large banks
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Monday how much each large bank that underwent its 2020 stress tests will have to hold in additional capital. The results...
Aug 10, 2020
Duke takes $1.6 billion charge to exit Atlantic Coast natgas pipe
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) - U.S. energy company Duke Energy Corp said Monday it took a $1.6-billion after-tax charge in the second quarter for the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipe...
Aug 10, 2020
Coronavirus spread accelerates in Denmark, reproduction rate rises to 1.4
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark has seen a new spread of COVID-19 infections in the past week with the reproduction rate rising to 1.4, the country's health minister said on Monday. "The virus is movin...
Aug 10, 2020
U.S. Treasury chief says TikTok cannot continue in present form
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday that Chinese-owned short video app TikTok cannot continue in its present form collecting data on Americans on a large scale...
Aug 10, 2020
