Author Archives: Syndicated Content
European coalition takes shape on coronavirus contact tracing
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - A European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections that, its backers hope, could help to reopen bor...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
Pakistan to lift lockdown from Saturday, despite rising COVID-19 curve
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's coronavirus lockdown will be lifted on Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, despite the fact that the number of cases in the country is still accelerating. The de...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
China trade data lifts futures ahead of jobless claims
By C Nivedita (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures jumped on Thursday as a surprise rise in Chinese exports spurred hopes of a faster economic recovery, even as investors braced for data likely to sho...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
German officials warn coronavirus is far from over
BERLIN (Reuters) - German officials warned on Thursday that the coronavirus crisis is far from over despite the country slowly reopening its economy and trying to get life back to normal. Germany has ...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
MotoGP intends to start season in July with races in Jerez
(Reuters) - MotoGP has proposed starting its season, after months of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with two races on consecutive weekends in July at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. It said ...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
Japan tax collections fall most since June, more drops seen as virus bites
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's tax revenue fell 9.2% in the year to March for the biggest annual decline since last June, hit by a delay in the due date because of the coronavirus pandemic, the finance min...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
Absence makes the heart grow fonder as China goes back to school
By Emily Chow SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Temperature checks, compulsory face masks and scrupulous hygiene - it's more like going to a hospital than a school, but the Shanghai students returning to class aft...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
Anger after Malta prosecutor quits to defend journalist murder suspect
VALLETTA (Reuters) - The family of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has demanded an investigation after a lawyer in the prosecutor's office resigned and turned up in court within hou...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
'Whole new business': Farmers innovate to get food from field to plate
By Gus Trompiz, Sybille de La Hamaide and Christopher Walljasper PARIS/CHICAGO (Reuters) - From Europe to Asia and across the Americas, farmers and others in the global food supply chain are innovatin...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020
Fight brews in Congress over Republican push to protect business from coronavirus suits
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. Senate Democrat pushed back on Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's drive to protect employers from coronavirus-related lawsuits when the econ...
Thomson Reuters May 07, 2020