Category Archives: Syndicated
Africa hit by sustained community spread of coronavirus: disease centre
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Cases of community transmission of the new coronavirus are growing in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, and a new strategy for testing is needed to prevent...
May 28, 2020
International students wonder if U.S. business school worth it in coronavirus era
By Humeyra Pamuk and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This summer, dozens of incoming students at New York's Columbia Business School had planned to sail around the coast of Croatia for a week to get ...
May 28, 2020
Coronavirus patients flood hospitals in Indonesia’s second-largest city
By Stanley Widianto and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hospitals in Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya have been overwhelmed by a surge of new coronavirus cases, forcing them to t...
May 28, 2020
California hospitals struggle financially after preparing for COVID-19 surge that never came
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - As the novel coronavirus tore through Italy and then New York in March, California, anticipating a deadly surge in cases, ordered hospitals to shut d...
May 28, 2020
Opening schools in Denmark did not worsen outbreak, data shows
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A partial reopening of Danish schools did not lead to an increase in coronavirus infections among young students, a doctor of infectious disease epidemiology and prevention at t...
May 28, 2020
Exclusive: UK retailer Debenhams cuts ‘hundreds’ of head office staff – sources
LONDON (Reuters) - British department store group Debenhams has cut "hundreds" of head office jobs as it slims down its administrative functions to support a smaller business in the future, two people...
May 28, 2020
Afghan government says ceasefire still in place even as skirmishes with Taliban resume
By Hamid Shalizi and Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Skirmishes between Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces recommenced in Afghanistan in the day since a three-day ceasefire expired, but ...
May 28, 2020
International tourism faces biggest slump since 1950s: UNWTO
BERLIN (Reuters) - International tourism is set to fall by 70% this year, marking the sector's biggest slump since records began in the 1950s, United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secreta...
May 28, 2020
S&P futures tread water as Sino-U.S. tensions weigh
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - Futures contracts for the S&P 500 were largely flat on Thursday as investors weighed hopes of an economic recovery against underlying tensions between the United States and ...
May 28, 2020
Let’s risk overdoing stimulus for searing COVID hit: BoE’s Saunders
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England should risk pumping too much stimulus into Britain's economy rather than too little because of the "searing experience" of the coronavirus crisis which will leav...
May 28, 2020
