Author Archives: Syndicated Content
After months of confidence, Netherlands wakes up to Covid surge
By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Until recently, the Netherlands was so comfortable with its test-and-trace plan for a second wave of coronavirus infections that it thought there was no need to...
Oct 07, 2020
Tokyo organisers to save over $280 million with 'simplification' measures
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Organisers of the rearranged Tokyo Olympics announced on Wednesday that they will be introducing cost-cutting measures to save 30 billion yen ($283 million) as they p...
Oct 07, 2020
U.N. to step up rights work in Philippines after drug war killings
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Philippines pledged on Wednesday to cooperate with the United Nations on human rights issues after U.N. investigators documented tens of thousands of killin...
Oct 07, 2020
TikTok to become principal partner of esports team Tundra
(Reuters) - Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has continued its expansion into the esports industry by signing up as the new principal partner of London-based esports organisation Tundra. TikTo...
Oct 07, 2020
UK's Heathrow airport begins appeal against expansion block
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Heathrow airport launched an appeal to overturn a block on its expansion plans on Wednesday, sticking to its long-held desire to build a new runway despite the pandemic pu...
Oct 07, 2020
Virus shatters Latin America's middle class dreams
By Adam Jourdan, Aislinn Laing, Maria Cervantes and Diego Or BUENOS AIRES/SANTIAGO/LIMA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When the coronavirus hit Chile and abruptly cost Lorena Rodriguez her job, the 47-year-o...
Oct 07, 2020
Prague cafe hits sweet spot with coronavirus-shaped dessert
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A restaurant in Prague's historic centre has invented a dessert shaped like the novel coronavirus, an attempt to arrest a slump in business that is already proving a hit with custom...
Oct 07, 2020
White House says 'not optimistic' about comprehensive COVID-19 aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday said he was not optimistic that a comprehensive deal could be reached on further COVID-19 financial, aid but that the Trump ...
Oct 07, 2020
Germany finds one new African swine fever case in wild boar
HAMBURG (Reuters) - One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, Germany's federal agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. T...
Oct 07, 2020
Russia evacuates villages as huge blaze breaks out at arms depot
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities rushed to evacuate people from more than 10 villages in the region of Ryazan on Wednesday after a blaze broke out at an ammunition depot, sending thick smoke bel...
Oct 07, 2020
