Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Colombian court orders $370 million loan to Avianca temporarily witheld
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian court has ordered government loans worth $370 million made to Avianca Holdings under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws be temporarily withheld, until the airline guarantee...
Sep 12, 2020
Cuba shuts down interprovincial transportation due to new COVID-19 fears
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban state media reported on Saturday interprovincial transportation would be shut down and a curfew in Havana extended until the end of the month as a surge in COVID-19 cases in t...
Sep 12, 2020
UK records 3,497 more confirmed cases of COVID-19
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom reported 3,497 confirmed new cases of COVID-19, according to government data published on Saturday, compared with 3,539 a day earlier. It also reported a further ...
Sep 12, 2020
Biggie Smalls crown likely to fetch top dollar at Sotheby's first-ever hip hop auction
By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - It started out as just a plastic prop from a party shop but the gold colored crown that American rapper Biggie Smalls wore on the last photo shoot before his dea...
Sep 12, 2020
Myanmar residents barricade city streets as coronavirus cases rise
By Zaw Naing Oo YANGON (Reuters) - Some residents of Myanmar's biggest city used pieces of wood and corrugated iron to make barricades around their neighbourhoods late on Friday, trying to keep out CO...
Sep 12, 2020
Serena out of Italian Open with Achilles problem
(Reuters) - Serena Williams has pulled out of the Italian Open starting on Monday due to an Achilles injury, the former world number one confirmed on Saturday. Williams' bid for a record-equalling 24t...
Sep 12, 2020
Pfizer, BioNTech propose expanding COVID-19 vaccine trial to 44,000 volunteers
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have proposed to the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the enrollment of their Phase 3 pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial to up to about 44,000 partic...
Sep 12, 2020
Europe should take more minors from Moria migrant camp: Germany's Scholz
BERLIN (Reuters) - Plans by European countries to take some 400 unaccompanied children from the burned down Moria refugee camp in Greece should mark just the beginning of their efforts, German Vice Ch...
Sep 12, 2020
Pakistani police release journalist accused of defaming army
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police released a local journalist accused of defaming the military on Saturday as a court reprimanded the police for overstepping their mandate, a lawyer for j...
Sep 12, 2020
Astrazeneca says trials of COVID vaccine resuming
LONDON (Reuters) - British clinical trials for the AstraZeneca and Oxford University coronavirus vaccine have resumed following confirmation by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it...
Sep 12, 2020
