Category Archives: Syndicated
UK’s Queen Elizabeth joins first public video conference call to mark carers week
LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth has taken part in her first public video conference call to mark Carers Week, adding another first for the British monarch during her long reign. Elizabeth and her d...
Jun 11, 2020
Denmark agrees to send more troops to Iraq’s NATO training mission
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will send up to 285 military personnel to NATO's non-combat training operation in Iraq as it takes over leadership of the mission training Iraqi security forces from Can...
Jun 11, 2020
Africa’s coronavirus ‘hotspots’ in South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Africa will have a "steady increase" in COVID-19 cases until a vaccine is developed and strong public health measures are needed in current "hotspots" in South Africa, Algeria and C...
Jun 11, 2020
Renault nationalisation, state cash injection not on the table: chairman
PARIS (Reuters) - A further investment by the French government in Renault's capital would not be the most pertinent or useful use of state resources, the carmaker's chairman said on Thursday, adding ...
Jun 11, 2020
Ivory Coast army says 12 soldiers killed and seven wounded
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Some 12 Ivorian soldiers were killed and other seven wounded in an attack at a northern border post near Burkina Faso early on Thursday, a senior officer at the Ivorian army chief ...
Jun 11, 2020
Biting passenger delays flight? No compensation needed, says EU court
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airlines don't need to compensate passengers if a flight is delayed by one person biting another as it is an "extraordinary circumstance", the EU's top court rul...
Jun 11, 2020
Outbreak quashed, China launches test lab spending spree
By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - China is building hundreds of testing laboratories and stocking up on tests to ramp up screening for the coronavirus, even in healthy people, having all-but stamped ...
Jun 11, 2020
Coronavirus spreads among fruit and vegetable packers, worrying U.S. officials
By Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Christopher Walljasper NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county k...
Jun 11, 2020
Kremlin defends Russia’s coronavirus death data after WHO query
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin denied on Thursday there was anything untoward with Russia's official coronavirus death data after the World Health Organisation said this week that Russia's low death r...
Jun 11, 2020
Metals tycoon Gupta’s GFG to cut jobs as forecasts further weak demand
LONDON (Reuters) - British-based commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta's global metals businesses said on Thursday it will cut costs and shed jobs due to a sharp slide in demand that could last up to 18 mo...
Jun 11, 2020
