Author Archives: Syndicated Content
80% of venues secured for next year's Games: Tokyo 2020 CEO Muto
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers announced on Friday that 80% of the venues required to run a successful Olympics have been secured ahead of next year's rearranged Games. In the original plan f...
Jun 12, 2020
EU experts see some risk of return to lockdown in COVID-19 second wave
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The risk of a second wave of COVID-19 infections big enough to require European lockdowns to be reimposed is moderate to high, EU health experts said on Friday, and ...
Jun 12, 2020
French police stage protest on Paris' Champs Elysees
PARIS (Reuters) - French police staged a protest on Paris' Champs Elysees on Friday, demonstrating against restrictions on restraint holds they can use, and curbs imposed by the government in response...
Jun 12, 2020
Beijing city reports 2 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing city government on Friday reported two new confirmed COVID-19 cases, marking the second consecutive day of new infections being reported in the Chinese capital. The two pat...
Jun 12, 2020
Turkey arrests prominent journalist on espionage charges: Anadolu
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has jailed a prominent opposition journalist from an online news outlet pending trial on "military and political espionage", the state-run Anadolu news agency said o...
Jun 12, 2020
German cabinet agrees to reduce VAT as part of stimulus package: source
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet has agreed to temporarily slash value-added tax and give parents a cash handout of 300 euros per child as part of its 130 billion euro ($147.20 billion) economic ...
Jun 12, 2020
ECB's Enria urges banks to eat into capital and lend
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's top supervisor urged banks on Friday to eat into their capital buffers and continue lending during the coronavirus crisis, insisting the ECB would be ...
Jun 12, 2020
Justice building in French city of Nimes sealed off: police
PARIS (Reuters) - Police in the southern French city of Nimes said on Friday they had sealed off the city's main law and justice building and advised people in a Twitter post to avoid the area. Local ...
Jun 12, 2020
Refusing to be gagged, Myanmar journalists work from shadows
(Reuters) - Hiding from Myanmar's police, journalist Aung Marm Oo refuses to conceal his anger with the civilian government led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as his country prepares for an electi...
Jun 12, 2020
Baby dragons take their bow in a Slovenian cave
By Marja Novak POSTOJNA, Slovenia (Reuters) - Three rare aquatic creatures known as baby dragons are going on display in an aquarium at Slovenia's Postojna Cave, one of the country's biggest tourist a...
Jun 12, 2020
