Category Archives: Syndicated
Tajik leader urges farmers to delay Ramadan fast
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon urged local farmers on Thursday to delay fasting for Ramadan so they can stay healthy and productive during the coronavirus pandemic. Muslims aroun...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s poor testing could slow emergence from lockdown, Deutsche Bank says
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's poor novel coronavirus testing capacity means that it is likely be one of the world's laggards to exit the stringent lockdown that has so badly hammered its con...
Apr 23, 2020
Merkel says we are still at the start of the coronavirus pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and will have to live with it for a long time, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. "We are not living in the fin...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s Aston Martin plans to restart St Athan unit, cuts executives’ pay
(Reuters) - Aston Martin said on Thursday it plans to restart its St Athan factory in south Wales on May 5 and will also resume operations at Gaydon later, after the coronavirus-led shutdowns forced t...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Just another patient’: New Zealand nurse tells of treating British PM for virus
(Reuters) - A New Zealand nurse who treated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was in hospital with the coronavirus said she saw the world leader as "just another patient" and that she thou...
Apr 23, 2020
French business activity crashes to new record low in April: PMIs
PARIS (Reuters) - French business activity has plunged even more than expected this month to hit a new record low as a nationwide lockdown shuttered shops and factories across the euro zone's second-b...
Apr 23, 2020
European shares gain ahead of business activity data
(Reuters) - European stock markets inched higher on Thursday following a bunch of better-than-expected quarterly earnings reports, even as investors braced for worsening business activity data with th...
Apr 23, 2020
On this day: Born April 24, 1973: Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
By Amlan Chakraborty (Reuters) - Sachin Tendulkar compiled a mountain of runs for almost a quarter of a century and reached cricket's dizzying heights by defying a burden of expectation that would hav...
Apr 23, 2020
Britain clears Takeaway.com’s purchase of Just Eat
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator on Thursday cleared online food delivery company Takeaway.com's takeover of UK rival Just Eat, saying the 6.2 billion pound ($7.7 billion) deal would...
Apr 23, 2020
German bank lobby warns coronavirus crisis will lead to many defaults
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Martin Zielke, the new president of Germany's BdB banking lobby, on Thursday warned that the coronavirus crisis will result in numerous loan defaults. Europe's banks are expected...
Apr 23, 2020
