Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ireland rejects health chiefs' lockdown call, tightens COVID-19 curbs
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government rejected a surprise recommendation by its health chiefs to go into lockdown and instead tightened COVID-19 restrictions across the country for three weeks, Prim...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. commercial bankruptcies up 33% year to date
(Reuters) - U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings are up 33% so far this year with new cases in September surging by 78% from a year earlier as the recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic hits small...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. indicts anti-virus software creator John McAfee for tax evasion
By Katanga Johnson and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Monday against John David McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, over charges that he eva...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. court orders Iran to pay $1.4 billion in damages to missing former FBI agent's family
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered the government of Iran to pay more than $1.4 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to the family of a former FBI agent who disa...
Oct 05, 2020
Djokovic suffers deja vu after hitting line judge
PARIS (Reuters) - For the second Grand Slam in succession a line judge was in the firing line from Novak Djokovic but on Monday it did not cost the Serb anything more than an anxious moment. Top seed ...
Oct 05, 2020
Zverev says he has tested negative for COVID-19
PARIS (Reuters) - German Alexander Zverev said he tested negative for COVID-19 after playing sick with a fever and breathing difficulties in the fourth round of the French Open on Sunday. "I received ...
Oct 05, 2020
'No isolation, few tests': Argentina has world's highest COVID-19 positive rate
By Marina Lammertyn and Miguel Lobianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina has the world's highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests, according to Oxford-linked tracker Our World In Data, with nearly si...
Oct 05, 2020
Cisco must pay $1.9 billion in patent lawsuit - U.S. judge
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Cisco Systems Inc to pay $1.9 billion after a Virginia company accused it of infringing patents related to complex computer network security functions. U.S. ...
Oct 05, 2020
Former CEO to serve home confinement in U.S. college admissions scandal
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of a staffing and information technology services provider was sentenced on Monday to a year of home confinement after admitting he partic...
Oct 05, 2020
Slack says some users facing performance glitches on app
(Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc said on Monday some of it users were facing faulty performance on its workplace messaging platform, which is widely used by employees working remotely during the COV...
Oct 05, 2020
