Category Archives: Syndicated
Lufthansa CEO promises Germans a ‘homecoming guarantee’
BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa will bring home any Germans it flies abroad on vacation, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said in a newspaper interview, seeking to assuage holidaymakers' concerns that new c...
Jun 07, 2020
Scotland, Northern Ireland report no new COVID-19 deaths in past 24 hours
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland has recorded no deaths of patients who have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, Scottish health minister Jeane Freeman said on Sunday. Northern Ireland's ...
Jun 07, 2020
Colin Powell endorses Joe Biden for president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democratic former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, becoming the first major Rep...
Jun 07, 2020
Thailand holds Zoom protest for Black Lives Matter movement
By Artorn Pookasook BANGKOK (Reuters) - Some 300 Thais and foreigners in Thailand and elsewhere joined an online protest against racism on Sunday, adding their voices to global calls for justice for b...
Jun 07, 2020
Rotterdam police seize 151 million euros worth of cocaine
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch police in the port of Rotterdam seized 2,020 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated value of over 151 million euros ($ 170 million), the authorities said on Sunday. The drugs ...
Jun 07, 2020
Saudi coronavirus cases exceed 100,000: Reuters tally
DUBAI (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia exceeded 100,000 on Sunday as the kingdom struggles to get to grips with a rise in the number of new infections over the past ten days...
Jun 07, 2020
New York City mayor ends 8 p.m. curfew a day early
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended a nightly curfew on Sunday, a day earlier than he had planned. The curfew ran from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. most nights and was put in place last ...
Jun 07, 2020
BA, Ryanair, easyJet protest over ‘wholly unjustified’ UK quarantine plan
LONDON (Reuters) - Three airlines have written to the British government in protest at its "wholly unjustified and disproportionate" quarantine rules for most international arrivals from Monday, a cop...
Jun 07, 2020
Delhi reserves hospital beds for residents as virus cases surge
By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The city of New Delhi on Sunday ordered many of its hospital beds to be reserved solely for residents of the Indian capital, as the number of COVID-19 infectio...
Jun 07, 2020
Athletics: AIU says suspended Naser missed four tests as she pleads innocence
(Reuters) - World 400 meters champion Salwa Eid Naser was provisionally suspended for registering four "whereabouts failures", the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Sunday. The Bahrain athlete, w...
Jun 07, 2020
