Category Archives: Syndicated
Iran asks French experts to read black boxes of downed jet: official
(Reuters) - Iranian investigators have asked France's BEA air accident agency to read black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner, Iran's envoy to the United Nations aviation agency said. The Ukraine...
Jun 12, 2020
Ukraine president’s wife tests positive for coronavirus
KIEV (Reuters) - Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus but her husband and their two children had tested negative. "Today I...
Jun 12, 2020
Rain stops play for COVID-hit Paris cafes
PARIS (Reuters) - Guillaume Artru, co-owner of a Paris restaurant, has seen his business battered first by COVID-19, then by one of Europe's strictest lockdown regimes, and now by a new adversary: the...
Jun 12, 2020
‘Shameful’ to threaten Churchill statue, says UK PM Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was "absurd and shameful" that a statue of Winston Churchill was at risk of attack by protesters, his strongest statement yet ...
Jun 12, 2020
Chinese users saw Zoom as a window through the ‘Great Firewall’
By Huizhong Wu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a r...
Jun 12, 2020
Chinese capital reports new coronavirus cases for second day
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital reported two new coronavirus infections on Friday, a day after it declared its first case in nearly two months, prompting officials to delay plans for some students...
Jun 12, 2020
Finland’s parliament questions legality of EU recovery plan
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish parliament's constitutional committee on Friday queried the legal grounds for the European Union's proposed 750-billion-euro coronavirus recovery package, urging Finla...
Jun 12, 2020
Facebook’s deal for Giphy to be probed by UK watchdog
(Reuters) - Facebook's deal for popular GIF website Giphy has caught the eye of UK's competition watchdog, which said on Friday it had begun a probe into the deal for possibly reducing competition in ...
Jun 12, 2020
South Africa should consider zero-based budgeting, finance minister says
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa should think about moving to a zero-based budget, the finance minister said on Friday, ahead of an emergency budget dealing with the economic impact of the COVID-19 ...
Jun 12, 2020
Slow start for India’s ambitious plan to resuscitate small businesses
By Nupur Anand and Manoj Kumar MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ambitious plan to provide some 3 trillion rupees ($39.5 billion) in loans to small businesses to boost an economy ravaged by the cor...
Jun 12, 2020
