Category Archives: Syndicated
‘Wild, wild West’: Wisconsin reopens for business
By Brendan O'Brien PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (Reuters) - As a handful of patrons sat at the bar nursing beers and watching a rerun of a Milwaukee Bucks basketball game on a cloudy Thursday afternoon, Juni...
May 14, 2020
Mexico reports record one-day coronavirus surge with 2,409 new cases
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Thursday confirmed 257 additional coronavirus deaths and 2,409 new infections, the biggest one-day rise in cases since the pandemic began. The new i...
May 14, 2020
Slovenia calls an end to its coronavirus epidemic, relaxes some border controls
By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The Slovenian government late on Thursday called an official end to its coronavirus epidemic, becoming the first European country to do so, after authorities confi...
May 14, 2020
As euro zone recession deepens, ECB to scale up bond buying next month: Reuters poll
By Richa Rebello BENGALURU (Reuters) - The euro zone economy's worst recession on record will be even deeper than predicted less than a month ago, according to a Reuters poll of economists. They also ...
May 14, 2020
Cafes and bars reopen in parts of Australia after coronavirus lockdown
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Restaurants, cafes and bars in Australia's most populous state were reopening on Friday after a two-month shutdown under coronavirus lockdown measures, boosting the...
May 14, 2020
India’s farmers gather record wheat crop, but cannot move it
By Mayank Bhardwaj GHARAUNDA, India (Reuters) - Late last month, Sukrampal had to beg and borrow farmhands from nearby villages to gather his part of the country's largest-ever wheat harvest in Haryan...
May 14, 2020
China’s top energy firms to grow gas output despite spending cuts
By Chen Aizhu and Muyu Xu SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top energy producers will grow their natural gas output this year by twice as much as in the previous oil rout even as they slash spendi...
May 14, 2020
Asian stocks set to rise on optimism of post-lockdown recovery, stimulus
By Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian stocks were set to rise on Friday amid investor optimism about the re-opening of the U.S. economy from coronavirus lockdowns and possibly more stimulus tha...
May 14, 2020
In Amazon city, indigenous chief felled by COVID-19 buried with dance and singing
By Bruno Kelly MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - He had asked them to sing and dance at his funeral, and that is how they said goodbye to Chief Messias Kokama on Thursday. They sang the Brazilian national an...
May 14, 2020
U.S. says Islamic State conducted attack on Kabul hospital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has assessed that Islamic State Khorasan conducted two attacks in Afghanistan this week, including on a hospital in Kabul in which two newborn babies were kill...
May 14, 2020
