Category Archives: Syndicated
Olympics: Lowe aims high after clearing cancer
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - American high jump champion Chaunte Lowe is fuelled by a desire to show people that they can overcome any challenge as she trains for her fifth Olympic Games after being di...
May 08, 2020
Bank of Portugal postpones capital buffer phase-in for banks to January 2022
LISBON (Reuters) - The Bank of Portugal said on Friday it had postponed a phased increase in capital buffers for banks identified as "other systemically important institutions" by one year to Jan. 1, ...
May 08, 2020
Protesters decry delay in arrests of two white men in shooting of black Georgia jogger
By Dustin Chambers BRUNSWICK, Georgia (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of a Georgia courthouse on Friday to decry the killing of an unarmed black man in February and the delay in c...
May 08, 2020
Three Enbridge pipelines shut after Kentucky natgas line fire
(Reuters) - Three of Enbridge's pipelines were shut following a fire on the company's Line 10 segment of its Texas Eastern Natural Gas System, in Fleming County, Kentucky on May 4, the U.S. Pipeline a...
May 08, 2020
No warning, no escape as deadly gas swept through an Indian village
By Sudarshan Varadhan, Harish Baskar and Pushkala Aripaka CHENNAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there we...
May 08, 2020
NBA: Raptors to resume training under strict guidelines due to COVID-19
TORONTO (Reuters) - The reigning NBA champions Toronto Raptors said on Friday they will allow players access to the team's training facilities from next week under strict guidelines amid the COVID-19 ...
May 08, 2020
Police clash with crowds in Indian city after stricter lockdown
By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Some residents frustrated over a strict coronavirus lockdown in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, hurled stones and were met wit...
May 08, 2020
New York coronavirus hospitalizations at six-week low: governor
(Reuters) - The number of people hospitalized for the novel coronavirus across New York has fallen to a six-week low as the state hit hardest by the pandemic has figured out how to "control the beast"...
May 08, 2020
Merkel, Trump agree in phone call to keep memory of WW2 horrors alive
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday marked the end of World War Two in Europe 75 years ago, a German government spokesman s...
May 08, 2020
Ukraine must drain corruption swamp, Saakashvili says in latest comeback
By Ilya Zhegulev KIEV (Reuters) - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, vowed on Friday to help his new boss, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, clean out a political "swamp" of ...
May 08, 2020
