Author Archives: Syndicated Content
PG&E starts rotating power outages impacting up to 250,000 customers at a time
(Reuters) - San Francisco-based power provider PG&E Corp said on Friday it has started rotating power outages at the direction of California's grid operator, impacting about 200,000 to 250,000 custome...
Aug 14, 2020
New Zealand COVID-19 outbreak grows, Australia still struggles
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New Zealand on Saturday reported seven new cases of the coronavirus as a lockdown in the country's biggest city, Auckland, was extended on Friday in response to the country's fir...
Aug 14, 2020
Latin America's coronavirus cases exceed 6 million
By Javier Lpez de Lrida SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceeded 6 million on Friday and continued to accelerate, accor...
Aug 14, 2020
India's Modi says ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccine
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines to distribute across the country when scientists give the go-ahead to do so, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independenc...
Aug 14, 2020
Motorcycling: Ducati to decide Dovizioso's MotoGP future next week - team manager
(Reuters) - Ducati will decide on the future of Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso after next week's Styrian Grand Prix, team manager Davide Tardozzi said on Friday. Dovizioso, 34, has won 13 races since ...
Aug 14, 2020
U.S. CDC says updated isolation guidance does not imply immunity to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said late on Friday its updated isolation guidance does not imply that a person is immune to re-infection with the novel ...
Aug 14, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 1,415 to 222,828: RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1,415 to 222,828, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Saturday. The reporte...
Aug 14, 2020
Australia commemorates end of WW2 with message of unity
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - In socially distanced ceremonies across Australia that echoed a message of unity, politicians, veterans and ordinary people commemorated on Saturday the 75th anniversary of the d...
Aug 14, 2020
K-Pop group BTS' label Big Hit posts profit as it prepares for IPO
(This August 13 story corrects to show that 2019 and 2020 H1 results are based on different accounting standards in paragraph 3, changes percentage change to profit figure in paragraph 1) By Joyce Lee...
Aug 14, 2020
Japan's Abe sends offering to war dead shrine as conflict's legacy lingers in East Asia
By Antoni Slodkowski, Linda Sieg and Sangmi Cha TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Saturday - th...
Aug 14, 2020
