Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Romania's president aims to extend 'state of alert' to fight coronavirus
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's current state of alert enforced on May 15 to fight the new coronavirus, must be extended by another 30 days until the middle of July, President Klaus Iohannis said on T...
Jun 09, 2020
Mandatory mask use to continue in Spain after state of emergency ends
MADRID (Reuters) - Mask use will remain mandatory in public in Spain even after the country's state of emergency expires on June 21, Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news conference on Tuesday. As...
Jun 09, 2020
Business leaders urge Britain to use U.N. targets in COVID-19 recovery plan: letter
LONDON (Reuters) - The bosses of some of Britain's biggest companies have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to embed the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals in its COVID-19...
Jun 09, 2020
George Floyd to be buried as global anti-racism protests spread
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - George Floyd will be buried in Houston on Tuesday two weeks after his death while being held by police in a Minneapolis street, and more anti-racism rallies inspired ...
Jun 09, 2020
Thailand proposes to tax foreign internet companies
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Tuesday approved a draft bill requiring foreign digital service providers to pay a value-added tax (VAT), becoming the latest country in Southeast Asia to seek to boost...
Jun 09, 2020
Special Report: COVID deepens the other opioid crisis - a shortage of hospital painkillers
By Lisa Girion, Dan Levine and Robin Respaut (Reuters) - As opioid pills and patches fueled a two-decade epidemic of overdoses in the United States, hospitals faced chronic shortages of the same paink...
Jun 09, 2020
Macy's says reopened stores performing better than expected
(Reuters) - Macy's Inc said on Tuesday its 450 reopened stores were performing better than expected, giving some respite for the department store operator that reported nearly $1 billion in quarterly ...
Jun 09, 2020
Russian chefs in naked lockdown protest after virus strips them of income
By Anastasia Adasheva MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian restaurant owners stripped of their income by the coronavirus lockdown are campaigning for their businesses to be allowed to reopen by posting pictures...
Jun 09, 2020
Tel Aviv has spring in its step again, but businesses face new costs
By Steven Scheer TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's main coastal city has returned to work - and play - but the coronavirus pandemic has brought new challenges that will weigh heavily on Tel Aviv's restaur...
Jun 09, 2020
South African airline SA Express escapes liquidation for now
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African state airline SA Express escaped liquidation on Tuesday, after a judge granted a three-month delay in liquidation proceedings, giving the government more time to...
Jun 09, 2020
