Category Archives: Syndicated
Corporate America seeks legal protection for when coronavirus lockdowns lift
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. business lobbying groups are asking Congress to pass measures that would protect companies large and small from coronavirus-related lawsuits when stat...
Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus shelter-at-home rules upend U.S. child abuse prevention system
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California case worker hears screaming as she tries to conduct a telephone session for a child abuse prevention agency; an Oregon doctor sees signs...
Apr 21, 2020
Michigan Open postponed, but no new date set
ACME, MI (WTVB) - The Michigan PGA announced the Michigan Open golf tournament has been postponed with a date to be determined. The four-day tournament was to begin play June 8, 2020 on The Bear at Gr...
Apr 21, 2020
Proxy adviser Ethos recommends UBS shareholders turn down management pay proposals
ZURICH (Reuters) - Proxy adviser Ethos has recommended shareholders vote against UBS Group's management pay proposals at the Swiss bank's upcoming annual general meeting, noting that despite adjustmen...
Apr 21, 2020
Driver killed in WHO vehicle carrying virus swabs in Myanmar’s Rakhine
(Reuters) - A World Health Organization vehicle carrying swabs from patients to be tested for coronavirus came under gunfire in Myanmar's western Rakhine state and the driver was killed, the United Na...
Apr 21, 2020
European new car sales plunge by 51.8% in March due to coronavirus: ACEA
BERLIN (Reuters) - Passenger car sales tumbled by more than 50% in Europe's major markets in March as lockdowns imposed due to the new coronavirus took their toll, data showed on Friday. In March, new...
Apr 21, 2020
Global hunger could double due to COVID-19 blow: UN
GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP...
Apr 21, 2020
Hear our prayers: coronavirus cuts off France’s Mont Saint-Michel
By Elizabeth Pineau MONT SAINT-MICHEL, France (Reuters) - The sound of prayer flowed around the centuries-old abbey atop the Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal islet amidst vast sandbanks off France's northwe...
Apr 21, 2020
Indonesia reports 375 new coronavirus infections, 26 deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 375 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, taking the total in the Southeast Asian country to 7,135. Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto reported 26 new cor...
Apr 21, 2020
COVID-19 death toll in England 41% higher than early data suggested: ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - The true extent of the death toll in England and Wales from COVID-19 was 41% higher than the daily figures from the government indicated by April 10, according to data on Tuesday th...
Apr 21, 2020
