Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Social-distancing Greek style: shimmy and sing from your car
ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of Greeks danced and sang from their cars at a drive-in music concert, the first such event since the country banned mass gatherings to contain the spread of the coronaviru...
Jun 03, 2020
France says latest U.S. trade threats over digital tax a 'contradiction'
PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire criticized U.S. threats of trade sanctions over digital service taxes, which he said clashed with its calls for G7 unity on other issues. Washi...
Jun 03, 2020
Iran's Khamenei says Floyd's killing exposes real nature of U.S.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the killing of George Floyd in police custody had exposed the true nature of the rulers of the United States. "The...
Jun 03, 2020
Explainer: Are asymptomatic COVID-19 patients safe or silent carriers?
By Cate Cadell and Roxanne Liu BEIJING (Reuters) - China said 300 symptomless carriers of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, had not been found to be infectious, in a bid t...
Jun 03, 2020
Germany: Doubt if now is right time to change G7 format
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday he was not sure whether now was the right time to shake up the format of the Group of Seven after U.S. President Donald Trump sa...
Jun 03, 2020
Airlines cut fares to help boost May traffic: IATA
PARIS (Reuters) - Airlines cut domestic fares by an average 23% last month as traffic picked up from April lows, global airline body IATA said on Wednesday - warning that post-coronavirus discounting ...
Jun 03, 2020
UK police investigating suspicious vehicle in central London
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said they were dealing with a suspicious vehicle at Sloane Square in London and the area's lawmaker said he had heard that a vehicle mounted the pavement and struck p...
Jun 03, 2020
Uganda health workers say they lack vital equipment to fight COVID-19
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan medical workers say they lack adequate supplies of personal protective equipment for tackling COVID-19 and the risk of infection is making some relucta...
Jun 03, 2020
Tel Aviv's soccer stadium trials misting tunnel to disinfect players
By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Tel Aviv's Bloomfield Stadium has installed a special tunnel to spray soccer players arriving for matches with a fine disinfectant mist to help prevent the spread of...
Jun 03, 2020
Mortality spiked 155% in Spain in worst week of epidemic
By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - New official data in Spain showed on Wednesday that many more people have died than usual this year than the recorded number of coronavirus fatalities and revealed a ...
Jun 03, 2020
