Category Archives: Syndicated
Britain sticking to EU deal timeline, Irish finance minister says after talks
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain appears to be sticking to its plan to seek a free trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 even though formal talks have been postponed due to the coronavirus, Ireland's fi...
Apr 10, 2020
Trump urges Congress to approve small business funding, no adds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the funding measure to help small business should be approved by Congress with no additions, as a partisan skirmish in the U.S. Senate...
Apr 10, 2020
Drivers to Switzerland’s scenic south stopped by police in virus crackdown
By John Revill and Arnd Wiegmann GOESCHENEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - A road under the Alps to the sunny south of Switzerland normally jammed with holiday-makers was deserted on Friday as police warned...
Apr 10, 2020
Easter season goes virtual as coronavirus locks out tradition
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - One Catholic priest in rural coastal Ireland delivered socially-distanced blessings from a moving vintage "popemobile". Another in Germany taped pictures of...
Apr 10, 2020
U.S. health expert Fauci: ‘Now is no time to back off’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease expert warned on Friday that even though hard-hit spots like New York are showing positive results in the battle against coronavirus, it is too e...
Apr 10, 2020
Poland critical of Russia 10 years after Smolensk air crash
By Marcin Goclowski and Wojciech Zurawski WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's ruling nationalists held scaled-down events on Friday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a plane crash in Russi...
Apr 10, 2020
Russia tells Czechs to hand over dismantled statue of Soviet commander
By Tom Balmforth and Jason Hovet MOSCOW/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Russia has told the Czech Republic to hand over the statue of a prominent Soviet military commander that was dismantled in Prague last week d...
Apr 10, 2020
South Korea reports recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again
By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the...
Apr 10, 2020
Bulgaria to apply to join euro zone’s ‘waiting room’ by end-April
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will apply to join the euro single currency zone's "waiting room" by the end of April, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Friday. Borissov said Sofia will speed up its ap...
Apr 10, 2020
German minister criticises U.S. coronavirus response as too slow: Spiegel
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticised the United States' handling of the coronavirus outbreak as too slow, the latest sign of tensions between the two allies as they ...
Apr 10, 2020
