Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Google trial judge suggests potential trial date, and it's in 2023
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust case against Alphabet Inc's Google suggested a trial date of Sept. 12, 2023, on Friday. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ...
Dec 18, 2020
Wall Street Week Ahead: Investors bet old-school retailers will rebound in 2021
By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - As holiday shopping season wraps up, U.S. equity investors are gauging whether long-languishing shares of brick-and-mortar retailers can sustain their recent rebou...
Dec 18, 2020
New York City changes admissions at many schools to ease racial segregation
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is overhauling how it admits students to some of its most competitive public schools to make them less segregated by race and wealth, Mayor Bill de...
Dec 18, 2020
Murdoch receives COVID-19 vaccine as Fox News host casts suspicion on campaign
By Kenneth Li (Reuters) - Media baron Rupert Murdoch received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, a day before prominent opinion host Fox News's Tucker Carlson raised suspicion over the marketin...
Dec 18, 2020
Turkey's daily COVID-19 deaths at record 246 - health ministry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's daily coronavirus death toll hit a record high of 246 in the last 24 hours, Health Ministry data showed on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths to 17,610. Turkey a...
Dec 18, 2020
Nationalised Alitalia aims to break even in 2022
By Francesca Landini MILAN (Reuters) - A new, downsized Alitalia aims to break even in terms of core profit in 2022, excluding aircraft costs, the state-owned carrier's CEO-elect said on Friday. "We a...
Dec 18, 2020
China is hurting its own interests with arbitrary detentions, Canada PM Trudeau says
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said China undermined its own interests and alienated other nations when it detained two Canadians almost two years ago, after Canad...
Dec 18, 2020
WHO investigators head to China in early January
ZURICH (Reuters) - World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Friday that an international team led by their body would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins...
Dec 18, 2020
South Africa experiencing a new COVID-19 strain - health minister
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is experiencing a new variant of the coronavirus that is driving a second wave of infections, the health minister said on Friday. "We have convened this public br...
Dec 18, 2020
UK reports 28,507 new COVID-19 cases
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 28,507 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and 489 deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the virus, according to official data. Thursday's data had shown...
Dec 18, 2020
