Category Archives: Syndicated
Egypt reports lowest daily coronavirus figure since late May
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt reported 703 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the health ministry said, the lowest figure since late May. In total, 86,474 COVID-19 cases have been reported and 4,188 deaths, i...
Jul 17, 2020
Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare says some customers are ‘experiencing issues’
(Reuters) - Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said some of its customers are "experiencing issues" as several websites were hit by disruptions on Friday. The company said it was "currently inves...
Jul 17, 2020
Delta will avoid pilot furloughs if they agree to reduced minimum pay: memo
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines told pilots on Friday it would avoid furloughs if they agreed to reduced guaranteed minimum pay, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Delta i...
Jul 17, 2020
FTC considering deposing top Facebook executives in antitrust probe: WSJ
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering taking sworn testimony from Facebook Inc's top executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as a part of its probe into whether the compa...
Jul 17, 2020
U.S. court rules that California work with Quebec on CO2 market is constitutional
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal district court ruled this week that California's coordination with Canada's Quebec province in a cap and trade carbon emissions market is constitutional, in a fil...
Jul 17, 2020
Brazil reports 34,000 new cases of coronavirus, 1,163 deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil registered 34,177 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,163 new deaths on Friday, the health ministry said. Total cases in Brazil, the world's second mos...
Jul 17, 2020
Owner of Zizzi and Ask Italian restaurant chains to close 75 branches
(Reuters) - Azzurri Group, the owner of Zizzi and Ask Italian restaurant chains, said late on Friday it has been bought by London-based investment management company TowerBrook Capital Partners in a d...
Jul 17, 2020
Steroid’s COVID-19 benefits confirmed; spotlight on immune cells
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caus...
Jul 17, 2020
Baseball: Free agent Yasiel Puig says he has COVID-19
(Reuters) - Free agent outfielder Yasiel Puig on Friday said he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was quarantining but added that he was asymptomatic and felt "absolutely fine." The 29-year-old Cub...
Jul 17, 2020
U.S. government executes third prisoner after 17-year hiatus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice executed a convicted murderer on Friday in the third federal execution within a week after a 17-year hiatus, according to a reporter serving as a media witne...
Jul 17, 2020
