Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Nationalised Alitalia aims to break even in 2022
By Francesca Landini MILAN (Reuters) - A new, downsized Alitalia aims to break even in terms of core profit in 2022, excluding aircraft costs, the state-owned carrier's CEO-elect said on Friday. "We a...
Dec 18, 2020
China is hurting its own interests with arbitrary detentions, Canada PM Trudeau says
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said China undermined its own interests and alienated other nations when it detained two Canadians almost two years ago, after Canad...
Dec 18, 2020
WHO investigators head to China in early January
ZURICH (Reuters) - World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Friday that an international team led by their body would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins...
Dec 18, 2020
South Africa experiencing a new COVID-19 strain - health minister
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is experiencing a new variant of the coronavirus that is driving a second wave of infections, the health minister said on Friday. "We have convened this public br...
Dec 18, 2020
UK reports 28,507 new COVID-19 cases
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 28,507 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and 489 deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the virus, according to official data. Thursday's data had shown...
Dec 18, 2020
Austria will go into third lockdown on Dec. 26, government says
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will go into coronavirus lockdown for a third time after Christmas, the government confirmed on Friday, just 11 days after the country's second lockdown ended. Non-essential...
Dec 18, 2020
Russia vaccinates its cosmonauts against COVID-19
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia began vaccinating its cosmonauts and staff on Friday at Star City, the closed town near Moscow that is home to the country's space programme, the Roscosmos space corporation ...
Dec 18, 2020
Canada trial for Toronto van attack suspect enters final day
By Moira Warburton TORONTO (Reuters) - The trial of a man charged with killing 10 people in a 2018 van attack in Toronto will end on Friday, as Canadian prosecutors push to have him found guilty of fi...
Dec 18, 2020
Japan's TV Asahi takes back report that prosecutors questioned ex-PM Abe
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's TV Asahi said on Friday a report that it broadcast saying prosecutors had questioned former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over political funding was untrue and apologized to him....
Dec 18, 2020
Mexico records lowest number of murders in nearly three years
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico recorded the lowest number of murders in the month of November in nearly three years, Mexican officials announced on Friday, but 2020 could still narrowly surpass last y...
Dec 18, 2020
