Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Biles 'praying for the best' with rescheduled Games
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four-times Olympic champion Simone Biles said she was hopeful the rescheduled Tokyo Games will take place next year, amid concern over the global response to the no...
May 28, 2020
Sudan army officer dies, soldiers hurt in attack by Ethiopian militia: SUNA
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese military officer was killed and several soldiers wounded on Thursday in an attack by Ethiopian militias on the Sudanese side of the border with Ethiopia, the official S...
May 28, 2020
Brazil central bank chief worried credit not flowing freely
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank president, Roberto Campos Neto, said on Thursday he is worried that credit is not getting to small and medium-sized companies, and expressed skepticism on cu...
May 28, 2020
U.S. FDA approves Eli Lilly's diagnostic agent for Alzheimer's disease
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co's radioactive compound to detect tau, an important characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Abnormal ver...
May 28, 2020
Kosovo highest court clears the way for new government vote
By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's Constitutional Court ruled late on Thursday that a new government can be formed without holding a snap election, a decision opposed by the caretaker prime...
May 28, 2020
House Democrats demand probes of police killings of black Americans
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday asked the Justice Department to investigate systemic police misconduct following a spate o...
May 28, 2020
Inside a COVID-19 hospital in India, doctors see no end in sight
By Danish Siddiqui and Zeba Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It was barely noon on Thursday when the metal doors of the mortuary at a hospital in south New Delhi swung open and staff in white coveralls ...
May 28, 2020
Canada's CIBC lost $64 million in a day in gold market turmoil
By Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) took a trading loss of C$88.2 million ($64 million) in one day in March due mainly to volatility in the gold market, the ba...
May 28, 2020
UPS adds 'peak' surcharge amid coronavirus fueled delivery spike
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc on May 31 will slap surcharges on U.S. e-commerce companies that have flooded its delivery network with shipments of everything from packaged food to ...
May 28, 2020
Playing to an empty room: Paris orchestra plays Strauss in COVID-19 era
By Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) - Renaud Capuon, a French concert violinist accustomed to playing to rooms of 2,000 people and more, performed on Thursday evening to an empty auditorium, but he said the...
May 28, 2020
