Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China will balance need for stabilising growth and preventing risks: central bank governor
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will strike a balance between stabilising economic growth and preventing risks, even as debt was allowed to temporarily rise this year to support the coronavirus-hit economy,...
Oct 21, 2020
Bulgarian president tests negative for COVID-19
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's has tested negative a second time for the coronavirus and expects his compulsory self-isolation to be lifted, his office said on Wednesday. The 57-y...
Oct 21, 2020
Nordic 2021 economic growth forecasts trimmed, virus spread top risk: Reuters poll
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The recession in Sweden and Norway from the COVID-19 pandemic is now expected to be shallower than originally projected, but forecasts for the recovery next year have been trimme...
Oct 21, 2020
Poland reports new record in daily coronavirus cases
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's coronavirus infections have doubled in less than three weeks and now exceed 200,000, the health ministry said, as it announced a new daily record of 10,040 cases. Poland's ...
Oct 21, 2020
Thai royalists rally to counter surging protests
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A few dozen Thai royalists held a rally in Bangkok on Wednesday in the face of protests against the government and the monarchy that...
Oct 21, 2020
Indonesia reports 4,267 new coronavirus infections, 123 deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 4,267 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking the total to 373,109, data from the country's COVID-19 task force showed. It also confirmed 123 new deaths,...
Oct 21, 2020
Late night shooting in Houston club kills three, fourth critical
(Reuters) - A late night shooting at a midtown club in the Texas city of Houston killed three men and injured a fourth critically, the police said, just hours after another incident in which a police ...
Oct 21, 2020
Almost 80% of Tokyo Games volunteers concerned about COVID-19: survey
TOKYO (Reuters) - Almost 80% of volunteers for next year's rearranged Summer Olympics are concerned about the spread of the novel coronavirus, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) survey showed. The ...
Oct 21, 2020
Lagos under 24-hour lockdown after protesters fired on
By Angela Ukomadu and Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - Lagos was under a round-the-clock curfew on Wednesday enforced by a heavy police presence, as smoke rose from a flashpoint area in Nigeria's b...
Oct 21, 2020
Czech Deputy Prime Minister Hamacek tests positive for COVID-19
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamacek, who is also the interior minister, has tested positive for COVID-19, he confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday. Hamacek, 41, is chief of the Soci...
Oct 21, 2020
