Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: U.S. plans massive coronavirus vaccine testing effort to meet year-end deadline
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States plans a massive testing effort involving more than 100,000 volunteers and a half dozen or so of the most promising vaccine candidates in an e...
May 22, 2020
Lebanon's government welcomes banks' input in rescue plan
By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Lebanon's government on Friday welcomed a contribution by local banks to a financial recovery plan but said there were issues that will need to be reconciled between t...
May 22, 2020
Patriots owner Kraft's Super Bowl ring sells for $1.025 million
(Reuters) - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl LI championship ring was auctioned off for $1.025 million on Thursday, with proceeds going towards the 'All In Challenge' which aims to...
May 22, 2020
Ireland to review 14-day quarantine for travellers on June 18
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's new regulations requiring incoming travellers to provide the address at which they will self-isolate for 14 days will initially be in effect from May 28 to June 18, Health...
May 22, 2020
Migrants stuck in Hungary can take walks after 'transit zones' shut
By Marton Dunai VAMOSSZABADI, Hungary (Reuters) - Pale, thin but in high spirits, Yemeni engineering student Wesam Al-Hadrami emerged from the unlocked gate of a new migrant centre in Hungary on Frida...
May 22, 2020
France - No daily coronavirus death toll, to be updated on May 25
PARIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, French health authorities did not report the daily additional deaths linked to the infection, adding in a statement pu...
May 22, 2020
Atlantia concerned over government member comments on state-backed loan
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Atlantia raised concern on Friday over comments by a member of government calling on its Autostrade per l'Italia unit to be barred from accessing a state-backed loan, saying ...
May 22, 2020
South America is a new COVID 'epicentre', African deaths still low: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - South America has become a new epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death t...
May 22, 2020
Nicaragua-Costa Rica coronavirus dispute stalls hundreds of trucks at border
By Hector Guzman PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Hundreds of freight trucks were stuck on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday as the two countries remain locked in a squabble o...
May 22, 2020
New York obtains student loan debt relief fraud settlements
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general said on Friday she has settled a lawsuit against three companies accused of tricking struggling borrowers into paying more than $1,...
May 22, 2020
