Category Archives: Syndicated
Nearly one in three UK firms reduced staff levels as coronavirus hit: ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - Twenty-nine percent of British companies reduced staff levels over the short term as the coronavirus crisis hammered the country's economy, a survey published by the Office for Nati...
Apr 09, 2020
French regulator: Google must pay French news and publishing firms for using their content
PARIS (Reuters) - France's competition authority issued a ruling on Thursday that Google would have to pay up to French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content. The ruling by...
Apr 09, 2020
Germany: Gradual return to normality possible if infection trend continues
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Health Minister Jens Spahn told newspaper Handelsblatt that the coronavirus infection numbers in Germany were showing a "positive trend" and if that continued, it would be po...
Apr 09, 2020
Irish restrictions likely in place for weeks: health minister
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's health minister expects to be advised on Friday to keep the significant restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus in place for a period of weeks but that the coun...
Apr 09, 2020
Number of people on Germany’s short-time work seen rising higher than in 2009
BERLIN (Reuters) - Some 650,000 companies had applied for short-time work in Germany by April 6 and the number of people on the scheme due to coronavirus is likely to be much higher than during the gl...
Apr 09, 2020
China’s auto market to recover despite virus impact: officials
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's auto market, the world's biggest, will gradually recover and remain stable for a long period of time despite short term pressure from the coronavirus epidemic, officials sa...
Apr 09, 2020
Caffeinated conservation: Colombian farmers switch coca for coffee to protect wildlife
By Oliver Griffin SAN LUCAS MOUNTAINS, Colombia (Reuters) - In a clearing around his modest smallholding, farmer Arcadio Barajas stands before a sea of coffee plants, cloaked in the shadow cast by a w...
Apr 09, 2020
Philippines’ coronavirus infections top 4,000
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines reported 21 new deaths and 206 additional cases of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Thursday. Total deaths have reached 203 and cases have risen to 4,076...
Apr 09, 2020
Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis
By Inti Landauro (Reuters) - For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era they can scarcely imagine. "W...
Apr 09, 2020
Italy industry output falls less than expected in February ahead of coronavirus impact
ROME, (Reuters) - Italian industrial output declined by 1.2% month-on-month in February, data showed on Thursday, a smaller drop than expected after a jump the month before. A Reuters survey of 18 ana...
Apr 09, 2020
