Category Archives: Syndicated
Greece steps up distancing checks after party scenes
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will step up spot checks to ensure the public and businesses stick to social-distancing rules, authorities said on Thursday, saying people were lowering their guard too soon ...
Jul 09, 2020
Brazil Central Bank studying ‘residual’ cut in Selic rate, says Campos Neto
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Central Bank is studying recent data showing inflation is somewhat above expectations to see if there is room for a "residual" cut in interest rates, its president Robert...
Jul 09, 2020
Record stimulus tightens Turkey’s grip on markets as foreigners flee
By Nevzat Devranoglu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the central bank's record programme of quantitative easing (QE), has tightened the grip state instituti...
Jul 09, 2020
In echo of Mao era, China’s schools in book-cleansing drive
By Huizhong Wu BEIJING (Reuters) - As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect, deepen...
Jul 09, 2020
Factbox: The gaps EU must bridge to unlock COVID-19 economic stimulus
By Gabriela Baczynska (Reuters) - European Union leaders meet in Brussels next week to discuss a proposal to inject hundreds of billions of euros into their economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic....
Jul 09, 2020
EU executive says ‘significant’ differences in Brexit talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive said on Thursday that "significant divergences" persisted in its talks with Britain on their new relationship from 2021. Britain left the EU in Janu...
Jul 09, 2020
‘It’s a very emotional time’: Hong Kongers pack memories for new life overseas
By Carol Mang Natalie Thomas HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) - When college graduate Wong, 23, leaves Hong Kong to escape Beijing's new national security law, it will be his friends, the stunning views ove...
Jul 09, 2020
French auditor says EDF must ensure financing to build new nuclear
PARIS (Reuters) - France's public auditor said on Thursday EDF must establish the financing and profitability of nuclear reactors before launching projects, dealing a blow to the state-owned utility's...
Jul 09, 2020
Italy heals after coronavirus, but scars remain for priest who blessed the dead
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italy's coronavirus lockdown is over and the daily death toll has dwindled, but Italians are coping with the fallout of an epidemic that has killed 35,000 people and ...
Jul 09, 2020
British retailer Boots to cut 4,000 jobs
LONDON (Reuters) - British health and beauty retailer Boots plans to cut 4,000 jobs and close 48 optician stores, in the latest major blow to the country's retail sector from the COVID-19 crisis. Brit...
Jul 09, 2020
