Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Starboard set to win eight board seats at GCP Applied Technologies-sources
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Hedge fund Starboard Value LP is close to having eight directors elected to the board of GCP Applied Technologies Inc at the chemical company's annual meeting, peopl...
May 27, 2020
Italy records 117 new coronavirus deaths, 584 new cases
ROME (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 117 on Wednesday, against 78 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases climbed to 584 ...
May 27, 2020
Online shopping highlights Cuba's inequality in time of coronavirus
By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting growth in inequality in Communist Cuba as worsening shortages force most citizens to spend hours in line to purchase basic goo...
May 27, 2020
Special Report: U.S. takes aim at the power behind Venezuela's Maduro - his first lady
By Angus Berwick and Matt Spetalnick CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years ago, a bit player in the Venezuelan leadership was arrested in Colombia and extradited to the United States to face drug ...
May 27, 2020
For mothers with coronavirus, baby's first coo is over the phone
By Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW (Reuters) - "It's a girl and she is fine, we all are fine," said Rayhona, 23. "They have shown her to me on a smartphone." More than 150 babies have been born to mothers with ...
May 27, 2020
England's test and trace programme to launch on Thursday
LONDON (Reuters) - A COVID-19 test and trace service will launch in England on Thursday to help the loosening of lockdown measures, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. "(From tomorrow) there is a new t...
May 27, 2020
Washington, D.C. will begin reopening on Friday: mayor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington, D.C. is set to begin its first phase of reopening on Friday, the federal district's mayor said on Wednesday. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had issued a stay-at-home order...
May 27, 2020
British regulator says 'COPCOV' hydroxychloroquine trial paused
LONDON (Reuters) - An international hydroxychloroquine trial led by the University of Oxford has been paused, Britain's pharmaceutical regulator said on Wednesday, less than a week after the trial sta...
May 27, 2020
Frankfurt Book Fair to go ahead on schedule this year
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Frankfurt's renowned annual book fair will take place on its original dates in mid-October, its organisers said on Wednesday, a sign of some return to normality amid the coronavi...
May 27, 2020
All 3 Detroit automakers had workers test positive for COVID-19 since plants reopened
DETROIT (Reuters) - In the week since U.S. auto factories reopened after coronavirus lockdowns, workers at all three Detroit automakers have tested positive for COVID-19 but only Ford Motor Co has tem...
May 27, 2020
