Category Archives: Syndicated
Icelandair to sack cabin crew but keep flying after failed talks
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Icelandair will sack its cabin crew and put pilots in charge of onboard safety after negotiations on a collective-bargaining agreement failed between the airline and the cabin c...
Jul 17, 2020
Economic recovery further away than markets think: BlackRock CEO Fink
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is going to take longer to recover from the hit from the coronavirus pandemic than the market expects, and more stimulus is critical, BlackRo...
Jul 17, 2020
Three white men charged in killing of an unarmed Black jogger in Georgia plead not guilty
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The three white men charged with the murder of a Black jogger in south Georgia pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Chatham County Superior Court, in a case that spurred a na...
Jul 17, 2020
Kenya police arrest prison warden over rape of patient in COVID-19 quarantine
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police arrested a prison warden accused of raping a female patient in a COVID-19 isolation facility he was meant to be guarding, a police report said on Friday. It was the l...
Jul 17, 2020
Extension of G20 debt freeze for poorest countries ‘highly probable’: Reinhart
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Group of 20 major economies is likely to extend a freeze in debt service payments on official bilateral debt for the world's poorest countries beyond the en...
Jul 17, 2020
Symptom tracker app reveals six distinct types of COVID-19 infection
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptom...
Jul 17, 2020
Hong Kong gives conditional greenlight to Gilead COVID-19 drug containing Remdesivir
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Gilead Sciences medicine containing Remdesivir has received a conditional greenlight to be used to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong officials said on Friday. The Hong K...
Jul 17, 2020
Serbia, Albania secure ECB repo lines amid pandemic
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Albania and Serbia on Friday became the latest Balkan countries to secure credit lines from the European Central Bank to provide euro loans to banks in those countries via repurc...
Jul 17, 2020
Suspect arrested in murder of founder of Gokada ride-sharing app, New York Times reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The personal assistant to Fahim Saleh, who founded the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, was arrested on Friday in the murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan...
Jul 17, 2020
Arise Sir Tom Moore: Queen Elizabeth knights 100-year-old fundraising captain
WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth II knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognising the 100-year-old for lifting the spirits of the nation during the gloom of the novel coronavirus outbr...
Jul 17, 2020
