Category Archives: Syndicated
Egypt reopens airports and welcomes tourists to pyramids after COVID closure
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt restarted international flights and reopened major tourist attractions including the Great Pyramids of Giza on Wednesday after over three months of closure due to the coronavir...
Jul 01, 2020
Mexican airline industry unions back Aeromexico’s Chapter 11 process
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Unions representing the Mexican airline industry on Wednesday expressed their support for Aeromexico's Chapter 11 restructuring process. In a statement, the unions said they ba...
Jul 01, 2020
Turkey’s total coronavirus cases rise over 200,000: health ministry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has identified more than 200,000 coronavirus cases with 1,192 new cases diagnosed in the previous 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Wednesday. The health ministry da...
Jul 01, 2020
Masks and bikinis as Bangkok sex districts reopen with new rules
By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - With performers wearing facemasks as well as bikinis, Bangkok's red-light districts reopened on Wednesday after more than three months of s...
Jul 01, 2020
House considering Wednesday vote on Senate-passed business loan program: Hoyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is considering whether to hold a vote on Wednesday on a Senate-approved extension of a $660 billion lending program in an effort to help small ...
Jul 01, 2020
Boston officials vote to remove statue of Lincoln and enslaved Black man
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Boston officials have voted to remove "The Emancipation Group" statue depicting Abraham Lincoln and an enslaved Black man from a city square, saying its "reductive repr...
Jul 01, 2020
Brazil’s second largest port disrupted by strong winds, authority says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The port authority of Brazil's second busiest port for grains and sugar, Paranagu, said on Wednesday that two shiploaders at the port were displaced by strong winds on Tuesday. T...
Jul 01, 2020
‘We are not guinea pigs,’ say South African anti-vaccine protesters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anti-vaccine protesters took to the streets in Johannesburg on Wednesday to voice their concern over Africa's first human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine. Last Wedn...
Jul 01, 2020
Exasperated Merkel backs widening boardroom quota for women
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her support on Wednesday for setting a quota for women on the executive boards of Germany's top listed companies, building on a 30% quota for wome...
Jul 01, 2020
Venezuela’s electoral board considers December 13 for new parliamentary vote
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's electoral authority is considering new parliamentary elections on Dec. 13, one of its directors said on Wednesday, though the opposition says President Nicolas Maduro i...
Jul 01, 2020
