Category Archives: Syndicated
Four more MLS players test positive for coronavirus
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four additional Major League Soccer players (MLS) have tested positive for COVID-19, a week ahead of the kickoff of the MLS is Back Tournament in Orlando, Florida. All four are pa...
Jul 01, 2020
Gabon blocks European travellers after EU ‘safe list’ snub
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's government said on Wednesday that European tourists and business travellers would not be granted visas after the European Union excluded it from a "safe list" of countri...
Jul 01, 2020
Alpha Bank seals deal to sell bad debt portfolio
ATHENS (Reuters) - Alpha Bank , Greece's fourth-largest lender, has agreed to sell a portfolio of bad loans worth 1.1 billion euros to Poseidon Financial Investor DAC, an entity financed by funds mana...
Jul 01, 2020
Pompeo says U.S. aims to extend U.N. arms embargo on Iran for more than short period of time
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said the Trump administration's aim is not to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran for a short period of time, adding that it wo...
Jul 01, 2020
UK emergency remdesivir supplies adequate to treat COVID-19, official says
By Alistair Smout and Josephine Mason LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has adequate supplies of Gilead's remdesivir for emergency use to treat hospitalised COVID-19 patients, England's deputy chief medical ...
Jul 01, 2020
New York expands coronavirus testing criteria to include everyone in state
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo expanded coronavirus testing criteria to include all New Yorkers on Wednesday. "We are now opening testing to all New Yorkers," he told reporters. "...
Jul 01, 2020
Sierra Leone doctors treating COVID-19 patients to go on strike
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Doctors treating coronavirus patients in Sierra Leone will go on strike within 24 hours after the government failed to pay promised allowances, their union said on Wednesday. The ...
Jul 01, 2020
‘Vast’ U.S. business expansion in China may threaten U.S. tech leadership: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "vast expansion" in U.S. multinational business activity in China since 2000 may threaten American industrial competitiveness and long-term tech leadership, a new report by a ...
Jul 01, 2020
John Paulson to turn hedge fund firm into family office: source
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Billionaire John Paulson is turning his hedge fund firm into a family office after setting the stage for the conversion last year, according to a source familiar wit...
Jul 01, 2020
WHO warns some nations still face ‘long, hard’ battle with COVID-19
GENEVA (Reuters) - Nations who fail to use all mechanisms available to combat the still-raging coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. "Some countr...
Jul 01, 2020
