Category Archives: Syndicated
France: new confirmed coronavirus cases up 998
PARIS (Reuters) - France has recorded 998 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the latest health ministry data released on Wednesday. The number of confirmed cases now stand...
Jul 22, 2020
Apple offers modified phones to security researchers looking for iOS weaknesses
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple on Wednesday invited security researchers to apply to receive modified iPhones designed to help them hunt for flaws in the company's mobile operating sys...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. bans drone flights near Portland buildings at center of anti-police protests
By Mark Hosenball and Kristina Cooke (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have banned drones from flying near federal buildings in Portland, Oregon, saying they believe federal officers have been surveiled by...
Jul 22, 2020
South African restaurants plead for end to ‘job-killing’ restrictions
By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of South African restaurant and bar owners placed tables and chairs on the streets outside their premises on Wednesday in a nationwide protest agai...
Jul 22, 2020
FBI says it has evidence linking anti-feminist lawyer to another murder
(Reuters) - The FBI said on Wednesday it had evidence linking Roy Den Hollander, the suspect in the shooting of the son and husband of federal judge Esther Salas in New Jersey, to a separate murder ea...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. House to vote on banishing Confederate statues from Capitol building
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was due to vote on Wednesday to remove statues honoring heroes of the pro-slavery Confederacy from the C...
Jul 22, 2020
Indy 500 limiting attendance to 25 percent capacity
The 104th Indianapolis 500 will run on Aug. 23 with attendance limited to 25 percent capacity due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. That still equates to 87,500 fans at the Indianapolis Motor Speed...
Jul 22, 2020
Fear factor: Investors rush into gold and other havens as stocks near highs
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are piling into haven assets such as gold, the Swiss franc and cash as U.S. stocks approach all-time highs, looking to hedge big moves in equities a...
Jul 22, 2020
Israel hosts U.S. envoy at biochem lab, seeks FDA nod for vaccine prototype
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Israel visited its bio-chemical defence laboratory and was briefed on a coronavirus vaccine prototype for which it is seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
Jul 22, 2020
U.S. was ‘late to the party’ in the Arctic, says Pompeo
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The United States and allies have been too slow to react to Chinese and Russian interests in the Arctic region, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Danish public broadcaste...
Jul 22, 2020
