Category Archives: Syndicated
Popcorn, palm trees and face masks: Cannes rolls out drive-in cinema
CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Riviera resort of Cannes should have been playing host to the world's biggest names in film. Instead, with its annual film festival postponed and the red carpet rolled u...
May 21, 2020
While U.S. economy slides, heartland auto dealers cry out for more trucks
By Nick Carey URBANDALE, Iowa (Reuters) - Jerry Bill is worried the novel coronavirus could hurt business at the Des Moines auto dealership he runs, but not because of a shortage of buyers for the big...
May 21, 2020
Argentina looks to rewrite history as default No. 9 looms
By Hugh Bronstein and Rodrigo Campos BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buenos Aires estate agent Esperanza Abondano is feeling the pinch of Argentina's debt crisis as the country inches toward a poten...
May 21, 2020
Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption
By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. apparel chain Gap Inc is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus ...
May 21, 2020
Divided by COVID-19: Democratic U.S. areas hit three times as hard as Republican ones
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As America's response to the coronavirus pandemic splits along partisan lines, a Reuters analysis may help explain why: Death rates in Democratic areas are trip...
May 21, 2020
Traders Beware: U.S. taps new tools to find fraud in volatile commodities market
By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Department of Justice charged a handful of JP Morgan Chase & Co traders in 2018 and 2019 with alleged commodities futures manipulation, it wasn't...
May 21, 2020
Hungary to scrap border zones for holding asylum seekers after EU court ruling: PM aide
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will scrap border transit zones where asylum seekers were held while authorities reviewed their applications after a European court ruling that deemed the practice unlawfu...
May 21, 2020
Iran says 10,000 of its health workers infected with coronavirus
DUBAI (Reuters) - Around 10,000 Iranian health workers have been infected with the new coronavirus, the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted the deputy health minister as saying on Thursday. "Around ...
May 21, 2020
In SoftBank slides, tofu, a goose and unicorns underpin sales pitch
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - A chastened Masayoshi Son summed up SoftBank Group Corp's record $13 billion operating loss on stage this week with a striking image: unicorns tumbling into the "valley...
May 21, 2020
Japan may lift Tokyo state of emergency as early as next week: PM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said that it was possible that a state of emergency in Tokyo and its surrounding regions could end as early as next week if the number ...
May 21, 2020
