Category Archives: Syndicated
NHL: League confirms nine new positive COVID-19 cases
(Reuters) - The National Hockey League (NHL) confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, including eight from players who reported to team facilities for "Phase Two activities." Under the league's...
Jul 06, 2020
Thailand says monkey labour ‘almost non-existent’ after UK shop ban
By Juarawee Kittisilpa and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK (Reuters) - Monkey labour to harvest coconuts for commercial products "is almost non-existent" in Thailand, the commerce minister said on Monday, aft...
Jul 06, 2020
Alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York jail
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged accomplice of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved to a jail in New York, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, where she faces ...
Jul 06, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court bolsters law banning ‘robocalls’
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld and strengthened a law banning the broadly unpopular but ubiquitous telemarketing practice known as robocalls, striking down...
Jul 06, 2020
White House says masks encouraged as precaution at next Trump rally
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's re-election campaign made the decision to "strongly encourage" masks at the Republican president's next rally as a precautionary measure, the White House chief of...
Jul 06, 2020
New York’s Cuomo touts continued progress in state’s COVID-19 fight
(Reuters) - The number of coronavirus hospitalizations in New York state dropped to 817, its lowest since March 18, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday. The governor cited continued progress in the s...
Jul 06, 2020
Displaced Yazidis head back to Sinjar as coronavirus lockdown bites
By Kawa Omar SHARYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yazidi families driven from their hometown of Sinjar in northern Iraq years ago are now returning as the impact of coronavirus lockdown measures makes...
Jul 06, 2020
Life-saving HIV drugs risk running out as COVID-19 hits supplies: WHO
LONDON (Reuters) - More than a third of the world's countries say they are at risk of running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVI...
Jul 06, 2020
U.S. Army private charged in neo-Nazi plot to attack own troops pleads not guilty
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Army private who according to federal prosecutors confessed to his role in plotting a deadly attack on his own military unit pleaded not guilty to charg...
Jul 06, 2020
EU Commission approves 150 million euro subordinated loan for Austrian Airlines
VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Commission has approved a 150 million euro ($170) million) subordinated loan to compensate Lufthansa's
Jul 06, 2020
