Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: After Trump's attacks, Republicans are less confident in voting by mail, poll shows
By John Whitesides and Grant Smith WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats their ballots will count if cast by mail and less confident they will be able to vote in No...
May 28, 2020
Germany calls in Russian envoy over hack attack
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's foreign ministry called in the Russian ambassador in Berlin on Thursday to complain "in the strongest possible terms" about a hack attack on the German lower house of parl...
May 28, 2020
On debt-stricken Lebanon, investors see little room for optimism
By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises, but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and...
May 28, 2020
Norway eases Nordic business travel rules, including Sweden
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will allow entry to business travellers from all the other Nordic countries from June 1, in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions, the government said on Thursday, makin...
May 28, 2020
Twenty-seven killed in central Mali ethnic attacks, local officials say
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Armed men on motorcycles killed 27 civilians in central Mali in three attacks on ethnic Dogon farming villages in less than 24 hours, local officials said on Thursday. Central Mali ...
May 28, 2020
At least 200,000 New Yorkers to return to work in phase one of city's reopening: mayor
(Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday outlined what the first phase of a gradual reopening will look like in the most populous U.S. city, and said he expected between 200,000 and ...
May 28, 2020
Hall delays Bryant's enshrinement ceremony due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The Basketball Hall of Fame's enshrinement ceremony for the Class of 2020, a group that includes the late Kobe Bryant, has been delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, accordi...
May 28, 2020
Australian jailed for 2007 murder in Bulgaria free to go home
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's highest appeals court on Thursday dismissed a request by the former chief prosecutor to review the parole granted to an Australian convicted of murder in 2009, meaning he ...
May 28, 2020
EU can move on Brexit, but needs UK to budge, EU trade chief says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is willing to move in negotiations on future EU-UK relations, but Britain must make a bigger effort to do the same in talks next week, the EU trade chief said o...
May 28, 2020
U.S. retail traffic jumped over Memorial Day weekend: cellphone data
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the photos from beach and lake resorts made clear, many Americans dropped their guard over a temperate Memorial Day weekend, set aside coronavirus fears, ...
May 28, 2020
