Category Archives: Syndicated
Volvo Cars to restart production in Sweden next week
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volvo Cars will reopen its Torslanda factory and offices in Sweden next week after overhauling its production processes to help prevent coronavirus infections, following a three ...
Apr 17, 2020
London mayor calls for compulsory face masks on transport
LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on the British government on Friday to make face masks compulsory for people traveling around the capital or shopping. The mayor said that evidence fr...
Apr 17, 2020
China reports African swine fever in pigs transported to Jiangsu province
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has confirmed a new case of African swine fever in the eastern province of Jiangsu, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. The outbreak, detected in Muyang county in Jiangs...
Apr 17, 2020
HC2 urges shareholders to vote against activist investor’s push to remove CEO
(Reuters) - New York-based HC2 Holdings Inc has urged its shareholders to oppose activist investor Percy Rockdale LLC's proposal to remove Chief Executive and Chairman Philip Falcone. Percy Rockdale, ...
Apr 17, 2020
Fearing virus, some Chinese in Russia self-isolate, many go home
By Yew Lun Tian SUIFENHE, China (Reuters) - As the coronavirus spread in Russia, a group of 500 Chinese residents of Khabarovsk city in the Far East decided to lock themselves inside an apartment bloc...
Apr 17, 2020
Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts
ALMATY (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare offi...
Apr 17, 2020
Britain offers freeze on auto finance repayments in pandemic
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog has proposed a repayment freeze for consumers with auto finance leases, goods bought on high-cost credit, and pawned belongings during the coronavirus p...
Apr 17, 2020
French telecoms group Orange to cut dividend by 30%
PARIS (Reuters) - Orange , France's biggest telecoms operator, said on Friday it would cut its dividend for the 2019 financial year by 30% and that it would review dividend policy for the 2020-2023 pe...
Apr 17, 2020
Virus tracing app ready for Germany rollout in 3-4 weeks: minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - A coronavirus contact tracing app will be ready for Germans to download and use on their smartphones in three to four weeks, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday. German federa...
Apr 17, 2020
British veteran raises $22 million by walking for the health service
LONDON (Reuters) - Captain Tom Moore, 99, a British war veteran, has raised more than $22 million for the health service by walking laps of his garden, prompting calls for him to be recognized by Quee...
Apr 17, 2020
