Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Strict Irish COVID-19 curbs put 85,000 people temporarily out of work
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Around 85,000 more people have claimed temporary COVID-19 jobless benefits since Ireland moved to the highest level of restrictions to fight the virus two weeks ago, fewer so far th...
Nov 03, 2020
Greece shuts restaurants, bars and museums to curb virus surge
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece expanded a night curfew on movement and shut restaurants, bars, theatres and museums in the most populous areas of the country for one month on Tuesday to contain a resurgenc...
Nov 03, 2020
Sweden registers 10,177 new COVID-19 cases since Friday
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, on Tuesday registered 10,177 new coronavirus cases, recorded since its previous update on Friday, Health Agency stati...
Nov 03, 2020
Belgium launches COVID patient air-lifts to Germany
By Yves Herman LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgium's surging second wave of COVID-19 cases has forced it to move some severely ill patients, many on ventilators, to neighbouring Germany, and air ambula...
Nov 03, 2020
Exclusive: India central bank exploring investment options for reserves, sources say
By Aftab Ahmed and Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India is looking at diversifying its foreign exchange reserve investments amid the fall in global interest rates caused b...
Nov 03, 2020
Netherlands poised to tighten curbs to slow second COVID-19 wave
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government is expected to announce tighter lockdown measures later on Tuesday, including a recommendation that people avoid foreign end-of-year holidays. Bars and resta...
Nov 03, 2020
Election Day 'Trump Train' caravans may be a security concern, experts say
By Raphael Satter and Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lines of honking SUVs, pickup trucks and motorcycles, flying flags for U.S. President Donald Trump are raising security concerns, election expe...
Nov 03, 2020
China's Xi warns of rising risks as party charts course for five years
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping, commenting on the ruling Communist Party's recommendations for the next five years, said on Tuesday said the country faces a significant increase in r...
Nov 03, 2020
Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua, government says
(Reuters) - Hurricane Eta has made landfall on the northeast coast of Nicaragua near the port of Puerto Cabezas, the head of the government's disaster management agency SINAPRED said on Tuesday. "The ...
Nov 03, 2020
China says its importers choosing voluntarily to cut back on Australian goods
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday reduced imports of Australian products like wine, coal and sugar were the result of buyers' own decisions, after media said Beijing had told importers to stop...
Nov 03, 2020
