Category Archives: Syndicated
Special Report: Local governments ‘overwhelmed’ in race to trace U.S. COVID contacts
By Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta (Reuters) - The soaring number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has far outstripped many local health departments' ability to trac...
Aug 04, 2020
Malaysian police raid Al Jazeera offices amid probe into report on migrant workers
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Broadcaster Al Jazeera said Malaysian police had raided its office in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, amid an investigation into a programme it aired on the country's treatment of un...
Aug 04, 2020
Futures retreat as U.S.-China tensions heat up over TikTok
By Sagarika Jaisinghani and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures pulled back on Tuesday as President Donald Trump's moves to force China-owned TikTok into a sale of its U.S. operations drew a sh...
Aug 04, 2020
KKR beats estimates with flat second-quarter earnings
By Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co Inc said on Tuesday that its second-quarter distributable earnings were flat year-on-year, beating many analysts' expectations amid a ris...
Aug 04, 2020
Clorox won’t have enough disinfecting wipes until 2021, its CEO says
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Grocery shelves won't be fully stocked with Clorox's disinfecting wipes until next year, CEO Benno Dorer told Reuters on Monday, as the world's biggest cleaning prod...
Aug 04, 2020
Thailand plans to widen medical marijuana production
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved amendments on Tuesday to its narcotics act to allow private production and sale of marijuana for medical use, officials said With a tradition of using t...
Aug 04, 2020
UK clears Amazon deal to buy 16% stake in online food platform Deliveroo
(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday cleared Amazon's purchase of a 16% stake in online delivery group Deliveroo, following a provisional nod in June. The Competition and Markets Aut...
Aug 04, 2020
President of Belarus accuses Russia of lying, warns of revolution plot
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday accused Russia of lying over an alleged mercenary plot to destabilise his country and said unnamed forces were trying to carry ou...
Aug 04, 2020
U.S. congressional primaries in five states feature polar political opposites
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas arch-conservative Kris Kobach and prominent Michigan progressive Rashida Tlaib - candidates from the outer edges of the Republican and Democratic partie...
Aug 04, 2020
WHO says China team interviewed Wuhan scientists over virus origins
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization team in China to probe the origins of COVID-19 had "extensive discussions" and exchanges with scientists in Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected, ...
Aug 04, 2020
