Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Olympics: A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty the...
Jul 20, 2020
U.S. President Trump's re-election campaign spends $50.3 million in June
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign spent $50.3 million in June, ending the month with $113 million in cash, according to a disclosure filed on Monday wi...
Jul 20, 2020
Oil steady as vaccine news counters rise in virus cases
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, trapped in the narrow trading band of the past three weeks as investors gauged hopes for a recovery in oil demand against fears of new lock...
Jul 20, 2020
Japan keeps fiscal tap wide open on budget spending requests to fight pandemic
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's budget for next fiscal year won't set a spending cap on requests aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the finance minister said, suggesting the heavily indebted governmen...
Jul 20, 2020
Australia's Victoria state reports 374 new cases of coronavirus
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state of Victoria reported on Tuesday three deaths from the new coronavirus and logged 374 daily cases of infections compared with 275 cases a day e...
Jul 20, 2020
Mainland China reports 11 new coronavirus cases, including eight in Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported 11 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for July 20, down from 22 cases from a day earlier, the health commission said on Tuesday. Of the new infections, eight were...
Jul 20, 2020
EU progress and vaccine hopes keep pressure on dollar
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Progress toward both a coronavirus vaccine and a fiscal rescue package in Europe put the dollar under pressure and supported commodity currencies and the euro on...
Jul 20, 2020
Australian prosecutor files charges in fatal 2016 theme park accident
(Reuters) - Ardent Leisure Group Ltd said on Tuesday a prosecutor in Australia's Queensland state filed three charges against it for an accident at a theme park on a river rapids ride in 2016 that kil...
Jul 20, 2020
Brazil asked to take measures to protect indigenous peoples from COVID-19
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A commission linked to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday asked Brazil's government to take steps to protect the indigenous Yanomami and Yekuana peoples from the ...
Jul 20, 2020
Disney's ABC News sacks senior executive over allegedly racist comments
(Reuters) - ABC News, a Walt Disney Co unit, has sacked senior executive Barbara Fedida after an independent investigation alleged she had made racially insensitive comments and used inappropriate lan...
Jul 20, 2020
