Category Archives: Syndicated
NCAA panel signs off on player endorsements
NCAA players are a step closer to profiting from the use of their name and likeness. Under a proposal the NCAA announced Wednesday that it will support, college athletes would be permitted to sign end...
Apr 30, 2020
Britain could miss COVID-19 testing target, says minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could miss its target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April, Justice Minister Robert Buckland said on Thursday. Some 52,429 tests were carried ...
Apr 30, 2020
Ukraine crosses 10,000 coronavirus cases: health minister
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine now has 10,406 confirmed coronavirus cases and 261 deaths, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov told a briefing on Thursday. The government has put lockdown measures in place until...
Apr 30, 2020
Latvia’s former Olympic javelin champion Lusis dies aged 80
(Reuters) - Latvia's former Olympic javelin champion Janis Lusis has died of cancer at the age of 80, the global governing body of athletics said in a statement https://www.worldathletics.org/news/iaa...
Apr 30, 2020
AstraZeneca to produce Oxford University’s potential COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca will make and distribute the coronavirus vaccine being developed by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group under an agreement with the University of Oxford, the British ...
Apr 30, 2020
Swisscom warns curbs on antenna upgrade stalling 5G rollout; keeps 2020 outlook
ZURICH (Reuters) - State-controlled telecoms group Swisscom AG said on Thursday that the rollout of its new fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology was getting stalled due to the governments' resistan...
Apr 30, 2020
California likely to announce closure of state’s beaches and parks: local media
(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom is likely to announce on Thursday the closure of the state's beaches and parks after crowds jammed beaches last weekend, according to a memo cited by local...
Apr 30, 2020
Proximus says receives temporary 5G license
(Reuters) - Proximus, the first mobile operator to launch a 5G network in Belgium, said on Thursday that market regulator BIPT has allotted temporary 5G licences to it and four other companies. BIPT h...
Apr 30, 2020
Telecom operator Orange posts higher sales as France business picks up despite virus
PARIS (Reuters) - Telecoms operator Orange posted higher revenues for the first quarter on Thursday, as business in its French home market improved despite the onset of the coronavirus crisis that den...
Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus plunges French economy into worst post-war slump
PARIS (Reuters) - France saw its sharpest economic contraction since World War II in the first quarter as a lockdown from mid-March left shops shuttered and consumers hunkered down at home, official d...
Apr 30, 2020
