Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Australia drops probe of journalist over use of classified documents
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian police have dropped their investigation of a News Corp journalist over the disclosure of a national security document in 2018, citing a lack of evidence...
May 27, 2020
South Africa's SAA aims to resume domestic flights from mid-June
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Airways (SAA) aims to resume domestic flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town from mid-June as lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the corona...
May 27, 2020
Swiss to announce further relaxation of coronavirus rules: NZZ
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will decide on Wednesday on further relaxations of restrictions brought in to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, including how to reopen nightclubs and football sta...
May 27, 2020
Bulgaria to reopen restaurants, bars and cafes on June 1
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will allow restaurants, bars and cafes to reopen at full capacity on Monday as the Balkan country further eased restrictions imposed in mid-March to stop the spread of the c...
May 27, 2020
Lost hikers found alive after 18 days in New Zealand forest
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Two New Zealand hikers survived for more than 18 days in a densely-forested national park before being found alive on Wednesday, rescue officials said. Jessica O'Connor and Dion...
May 27, 2020
French economy could contract 20% in second quarter: INSEE
PARIS (Reuters) - France's economy is on course to contract 20% in the second quarter from the previous three months as the country emerges from a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the INSEE official s...
May 27, 2020
French consortium steps up plans for saliva-based COVID-19 screening test
PARIS (Reuters) - A French consortium said on Wednesday that it was stepping up its previously announced plans for a saliva-based screening test to detect COVID-19, by joining up with medical laborato...
May 27, 2020
Novartis touts older cancer drug for MS in attack on Roche's Ocrevus
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis said on Wednesday that an older leukaemia drug it is re-purposing for multiple sclerosis halted disease activity in many patients during the first two years of injections a...
May 27, 2020
Coronavirus toll on Italy's elderly strains "nonni" safety net
By Claudia Cristoferi and Elisa Anzolin MILAN (Reuters) - Paola Berardi, 70, and her husband Mauro have taken care of their two grandchildren every weekday for the past decade while their daughter wen...
May 27, 2020
On this day: Born May 28, 1888: Jim Thorpe, American athlete
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Jim Thorpe, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and formidable American football and baseball player, was one of the greatest U.S. athletes of all time but the public often f...
May 27, 2020
