Category Archives: Syndicated
Philippines confirms 113 more novel coronavirus deaths, 2,357 more cases
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' health ministry on Saturday reported 113 more new coronavirus deaths and 2,357 additional infections. In a bulletin, the ministry said total deaths have increased t...
Jul 18, 2020
Tennis: Healthy competition key to Russian success, says Kafelnikov
(Reuters) - Russians Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov are ranked in the top 15 of men's ATP Tour and the healthy competition between among the trio is helping them excel, according t...
Jul 18, 2020
Indonesia reports 1,752 new coronavirus cases
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 1,752 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing total cases to 84,882, its Health Ministry said. The number of fatalities from COVID-19 rose by 59 on Satu...
Jul 18, 2020
Netherlands’s Rutte holds out as deadlocked EU talks go into second day
By Bart H. Meijer and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte held out against his European Union counterparts on Saturday as negotiations on a massive stimulus fund ran into...
Jul 18, 2020
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai, daughter, hospitalised for COVID-19 – media
(Reuters) - Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter were hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment, the Times of India reported on Saturday, days after her husband and father-in-law were admi...
Jul 18, 2020
Rouhani says 25 million Iranians infected with COVID-19
(Reuters) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it. The figures, whic...
Jul 18, 2020
Fire breaks out at Nantes cathedral in western France
PARIS (Reuters) - Firemen were battling a fire that broke out early on Saturday morning inside the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, the local fire service said on Twitter. TV images sho...
Jul 18, 2020
China raises equity investment cap for insurers to 45%
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's banking and insurance regulator said it was raising the cap on how much the country's insurers can invest in equity assets, an effort trying to bring more long-term funds ...
Jul 18, 2020
Philippines defends anti-terror law before U.S. Congress
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' foreign ministry has told the U.S. Congress that political freedoms and human rights will be respected as concerns linger over an anti-terrorism law that takes effe...
Jul 18, 2020
John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper’s son, was civil rights hero
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Lewis, who died on Friday at age 80, was a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s who endured beatings by white police and mobs and played an ou...
Jul 18, 2020
