Category Archives: Syndicated
Bank Hapoalim agrees to pay over $30 million for role in FIFA scandal: DOJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank Hapoalim B.M. agreed to pay more than $30 million for its role in the money laundering conspiracy surrounding FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, the U.S. Department...
Apr 30, 2020
Embraer and Boeing’s $4.2 billion deal ruled out pandemic as pretext to cancel
By Marcelo Rochabrun SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Boeing Co's recently aborted $4.2 billion agreement to buy the commercial jet-making operations of Brazil's Embraer specifically forbade either party from ca...
Apr 30, 2020
UK coronavirus death toll rises by 674 to 26,771
LONDON (Reuters) - A total of 26,771 people have died of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, up by 674 in a 24-hour period, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday. The country has 171,253 confir...
Apr 30, 2020
Many Trump nominations already were stalled. The pandemic has made it worse
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By now, David Tryon had expected to be a two-year veteran at the Small Business Administration, an agency at the heart of the U.S. government's coronavirus ...
Apr 30, 2020
Czechs to allow cultural and sports events with up to 100 people in next reopening wave
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government will allow cultural and sport events with up to 100 people to go ahead from May 11 as part of a next phase of relaxing restrictions imposed to combat the spread...
Apr 30, 2020
U.N. launches COVID-19 aid flights to vulnerable developing nations
By Francois Lenoir LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Program on Thursday sent a first plane loaded with medical supplies for developing nations especially vulnerable to the coronavirus pa...
Apr 30, 2020
In Syria’s Idlib city, a caravan spreads the word about coronavirus
IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) - A white caravan splashed with images of the coronavirus roams the streets of opposition-held Idlib city in northwest Syria where a volunteer tell passers-by of the virtues of ...
Apr 30, 2020
Half of Telecom Italia staff to work remotely in cautious approach after lockdown: document
MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia (TIM) will keep just over half of its staff working from home when Italy's biggest phone group begins a gradual reopening of its offices across Italy next week, compan...
Apr 30, 2020
U.N. experts urge lifting of Cuba embargo to save lives in coronavirus fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts on Thursday urged the Trump administration to lift the U.S. financial and economic embargo on Cuba, saying it limited the Communist-ruled isl...
Apr 30, 2020
U.S. not considering canceling debt held by China -Trump adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's top economic adviser said on Thursday it was "unequivocally untrue" that the administration was considering cancelling some debt held by China as a way ...
Apr 30, 2020
