Category Archives: Syndicated
Baseball: Fox to bring the noise with ‘virtual fans’ as sport adjusts to new normal
(Reuters) - When the Major League Baseball season gets underway on Saturday, players will be met by an eerie silence from empty stands at ballparks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but fans at home can e...
Jul 23, 2020
Kuwait adjusts curfew, re-opens hotels
DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait's cabinet has decided to ease the Gulf country's partial curfew slightly so that it now begins at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT) and ends at 3 a.m. (midnight GMT), the country's Center for...
Jul 23, 2020
S&P says hard for Mexico to keep credit rating if Pemex, CFE debt keeps rising
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ratings agency S&P on Thursday said it would be difficult for Mexico to maintain its credit rating if debts kreep ising at state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos and the state powe...
Jul 23, 2020
Democrats reject ‘piecemeal’ approach to U.S. coronavirus relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, shut down the idea of passing a temporary extension of expanded unemployment benefits separate from a...
Jul 23, 2020
U.S. judge orders Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen released from prison on Friday
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen released from prison on Friday and returned to home confinement. Cohen was sent home from prison in Ma...
Jul 23, 2020
Vacuum cleaner company Dyson to cut 900 jobs globally due to virus impact
LONDON (Reuters) - Vacuum cleaner company Dyson said on Thursday it will cut 900 jobs around the world due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer demand. Dyson employs 14,000 people global...
Jul 23, 2020
Biden, Obama criticize Trump’s coronavirus response in ‘socially distanced’ chat
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama blasted Republican President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a video aired...
Jul 23, 2020
WHO sees ‘intense transmission’ of virus in relatively few countries
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries, its chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday. "We continue to...
Jul 23, 2020
Former Chinese property executive who criticised Xi over virus ousted from ruling party
BEIJING (Reuters) - An influential former Chinese property executive and critic of President Xi Jinping has been ousted from China's ruling Communist party, a notice from the Beijing district governme...
Jul 23, 2020
Watchdog chastises federal prison in California for its handling of COVID-19
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A shortage of medical supplies and flaws in health screening processes contributed to a COVID-19 outbreak at a federal prison in California that sickened more ...
Jul 23, 2020
