Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Seattle-area nursing home unable to test 65 workers with COVID-19 symptoms
By Andrew Hay and Deborah Bloom (Reuters) - The Seattle-area nursing home at the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak said on Monday it had no kits to test 65 employees showing symptoms of the v...
Mar 09, 2020
Australia business, consumer sentiment jolted by coronavirus
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Measures of Australian business and consumer sentiment took a battering in February as a coronavirus outbreak threatens to severely impede growth, raising the risk of the country's ...
Mar 09, 2020
Games to proceed 'as scheduled' amid global coronavirus outbreak
By Amy Tennery (Reuters) - Major League Baseball's Spring Training and regular-season games are expected to proceed as scheduled, the league said on Monday after consulting with all 30 teams amid a gl...
Mar 09, 2020
Guatemalan migrant dies in U.S. custody after gallblader operation
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan migrant who had passed a key hurdle in her bid to win asylum in the United States has died in U.S. custody after a gallbladder operation, the Guatemalan governm...
Mar 09, 2020
Albania halts schools, Italy flights, ferries over coronavirus
By Benet Koleka TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania reported its first coronavirus infections on Monday - two men who returned from Italy and four family members of one of them - prompting the government to sh...
Mar 09, 2020
Fukushima dreams: a baseball star, a father and their shattered town
By Mari Saito IITATE, Japan (Reuters) - Kazuo Ouchi drives down a single-lane road through sheets of rain until he reaches a gravel driveway leading to a weathered farmhouse. Yellowing lace curtains a...
Mar 09, 2020
On 'day without us' protest, some Mexican women prefer to work
By Carlos Jasso ECATEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - Millions of women across Mexico stayed home from factories, offices and schools on Monday in protest at gender violence - but some who turned up to their j...
Mar 09, 2020
Storms and coronavirus kept UK shoppers at home in February
LONDON (Reuters) - More than one in four people in Britain put off going shopping or visiting other busy places last month because of the spread of coronavirus, but stormy weather had an even bigger i...
Mar 09, 2020
MLB, MLS, NBA and NHL restrict locker room access amid coronavirus concern
(Reuters) - Four major North American professional sports leagues said on Monday they were temporarily restricting locker room access to players and "essential staff" amid the global coronavirus outbr...
Mar 09, 2020
Oil price plunge ramps up pressure on Pemex; hedge programs in focus
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A crash in crude prices has intensified pressure on the finances of Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), which is facing the threat of a ratings d...
Mar 09, 2020
