Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazilian education firm Cogna plans Nasdaq listing of subsidiary: filing
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's for-profit education company Cogna Educacao said on Monday it has filed for an initial public offering of Vasta Platform Limited, its unit which sells digital solutions ...
Jul 06, 2020
El Al's board agrees to government bailout, Calcalist reports
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The board of Israel's El Al Airlines has agreed to a bailout package that will likely put the flag carrier back under state ownership, Israeli news website Calcalist reported on ...
Jul 06, 2020
Russia cracks down on marmot hunting after bubonic plague alert
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it had stepped up patrols to stop people hunting marmots near its border China and Mongolia after the countries reported possible cases of bubonic plague, whic...
Jul 06, 2020
U.S. Treasury names small businesses that took pandemic aid, says 51.1 million jobs supported
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday released the names of hundreds of thousands of businesses which took money from a high-profile $660 billion pandemic aid program, letting the ...
Jul 06, 2020
Britain's first sanctions target Russians, Saudis
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's first sanctions will target 25 Russian nationals it says were involved in the mistreatement and death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and 20 Saudi nationals held to be involved...
Jul 06, 2020
Nationals cancel practice after not getting COVID-19 test results
(Reuters) - The Washington Nationals cancelled their scheduled training on Monday after not receiving the results from COVID-19 testing, the Major League Baseball club said. The World Series champions...
Jul 06, 2020
As schools ponder cutting sports, tennis proves vulnerable
By: Steve Megargee The promise of college tennis lured Abhimanyu Vannemreddy from his home in India to the United States, where he settled in at Winthrop University in South Carolina. Now he's ponderi...
Jul 06, 2020
WNBA says seven players test positive for COVID-19
(Reuters) - The Women's National Basketball Association, which plans to begin its 2020 season in late July amid the COVID-19 outbreak, said on Monday seven of 137 players tested positive for the virus...
Jul 06, 2020
Mexican gross fixed investment suffers record fall in April
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican gross fixed investment in April suffered its biggest monthly fall on record, as the coronavirus pandemic battered Latin America's second-largest economy. Spending on ma...
Jul 06, 2020
Russia digs trench around Siberian village to enforce COVID quarantine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have dug a trench around a remote Siberian village to enforce a quarantine, after dozens of residents contracted the coronavirus, which local officials believe w...
Jul 06, 2020
