Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Swiss report 700 new coronavirus cases in a day
ZURICH (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus infections rose by 700 in a day, data from Switzerland's public health agency showed on Tuesday. It reported a total of 56,632 confirmed cases, up from 55,...
Oct 06, 2020
Greece says onus on Turkey to ease tensions
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece welcomes moves by Turkey to de-escalate recent tensions in the east Mediterranean, its prime minister said on Tuesday, but Ankara needs to show a firmer commitment to improvi...
Oct 06, 2020
EU adds Barbados, Anguilla to tax haven list, removes Cayman Islands, Oman
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers added Anguilla and Barbados to the EU's blacklist of tax havens on Tuesday and removed Cayman Islands and Oman after they passed the necessary ref...
Oct 06, 2020
Negative BoE interest rate unlikely even in hard Brexit, says Morgan Stanley
(Reuters) - Investment bank Morgan Stanley said on Tuesday it saw a "high barrier" to the Bank of England cutting interest rates below zero, even if Britain ends its Brexit transition period in Decemb...
Oct 06, 2020
'Work from work:' How a U.S. energy firm’s office return left some employees bruised
By Liz Hampton and Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - As the world experimented with working from home, U.S. energy firm Phillips 66 Co went the other way: it imposed a "work-from-work" policy for staff a...
Oct 06, 2020
Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and U.S. scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenome...
Oct 06, 2020
Twitter is testing how its misinformation labels can be more obvious, direct
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter is rethinking how the labels it applies to misinformation look and work, its head of site integrity told Reuters in an interview, as the social media company...
Oct 06, 2020
After summer of protests, U.S. National Guard puts troops on standby for coming months: officials
By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a summer of civil unrest over racial injustice in the United States, the National Guard has put hundreds of military police on standby specifically to help l...
Oct 06, 2020
As U.S. job growth stalls, some workers face long-term unemployment
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - More than six months after the pandemic ravaged the U.S. labor market, millions of Americans who are still unemployed are bracing for the possibility that the jobs they h...
Oct 06, 2020
How a Chilean raspberry scam dodged food safety controls from China to Canada
By Dave Sherwood SANTIAGO (Reuters) - In January 2017, Chilean Customs inspectors acted on a tip from a whistleblower: The country's prized crop of raspberries was under threat. Inspectors raided the ...
Oct 06, 2020
