Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Stretched Dutch hospitals to send COVID patients to Germany within days
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch hospital system is coming under increasing strain from coronavirus admissions as daily cases hit a record high, and it expects to begin transferring some patients to Ge...
Oct 22, 2020
Taiwan's UMC hopes to settle U.S. trade-secret lawsuit soon
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Thursday it hoped a business espionage lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against the...
Oct 22, 2020
Belgian foreign minister Wilmes in intensive care with COVID
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sophie Wilmes, Belgium's foreign minister and former premier, has been taken into intensive care suffering from COVID-19, her office said on Thursday, as the country battled a sec...
Oct 22, 2020
Spanish parliament overwhelmingly rejects far-right's no-confidence motion
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament on Thursday threw out, as expected, a motion of no confidence in Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez launched by the far-right Vox party and dismissed as a 'ci...
Oct 22, 2020
Union Pacific profit falls more than expected, shares down
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp on Thursday reported a bigger-than- expected drop in quarterly profit, after demand for e-commerce and beer shipments failed to offset weakness in coal and p...
Oct 22, 2020
Fourteen South Korean delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic...
Oct 22, 2020
Ahead of U.S. election, Europe eyes an ally in climate change fight
By Kate Abnett and Valerie Volcovici BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For countries hoping to avoid the worst of climate change, next month's U.S. presidential election will be pivotal in determining t...
Oct 22, 2020
U.S. airlines lay out COVID-19 damage and renew calls for aid
By Tracy Rucinski and Sanjana Shivdas (Reuters) - American Airlines and Southwest Airlines signaled on Thursday that they would continue to hemorrhage cash into next year as revenues hover around a th...
Oct 22, 2020
Russia grants whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has granted U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights, the TASS news agency cited Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena as saying on Thursday. Snowden fled th...
Oct 22, 2020
U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran, Russia have tried to meddle in 2020 election
By Joseph Menn and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has accused both Russia and Iran of trying to interfere with the 2020 presidential electi...
Oct 22, 2020
