Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Google's fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet starting Thursday, a new feature b...
Apr 16, 2020
Trump to push for reopening U.S. as millions more seek unemployment aid
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to announce new guidelines to reopen the economy after a monthlong shutdown over the coronavirus outbreak, despite ...
Apr 16, 2020
Canada sheds 177,300 jobs in March as coronavirus rips through economy
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada lost 177,300 jobs in March, including sharp declines in trade, transportation and utilities as well as leisure and hospitality, as the coronavirus outbreak hurt the economy,...
Apr 16, 2020
Drones, time-slots give Albania's virus lockdown a hi-tech edge
By Benet Koleka TIRANA (Reuters) - Buzzing overhead, the police drone warns shoppers in Tirana that curfew is approaching and they need to go home, having run checks through the day to make sure no on...
Apr 16, 2020
Hong Kong expects 1/4 of retail stores to close by end-2020: HKRMA
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong Retail Management Association (HKRMA) said on Thursday that about 25% of retail stores in the Asian financial hub were expected to close by end of the year despite ...
Apr 16, 2020
For struggling Venezuelans in quarantine, an opportunity in delivery services
By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - Delivery services have become one of the few employment opportunities for Venezuelans living under a coronavirus quarantine in a country already struggling with a...
Apr 16, 2020
Drug smugglers hide $1.3 million worth of cocaine in UK face mask consignment
LONDON (Reuters) - British customs officers have seized 14 kg of cocaine worth more than 1 million pounds ($1.25 million) that smugglers had hidden in a consignment of face masks in the UK customs zon...
Apr 16, 2020
Mixed blessing for some, as South Africa shelters homeless in schools, stadiums
By Tim Cocks and Wendell Roelf PRETORIA/CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa, like many nations, has long viewed homelessness as an inevitable fact of modern life, but the coronavirus epidemic is offeri...
Apr 16, 2020
U.S. Pentagon chief criticizes China as misleading, opaque on coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday he believes China's leaders have been misleading and opaque about the coronavirus outbreak that originated there and does not ...
Apr 16, 2020
Dutch coronavirus cases rise by 1,061 to 29,214: authorities
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Netherlands rose by 1,061 to 29,214, health authorities said on Thursday, with 181 new deaths. The total death toll in the countr...
Apr 16, 2020
