Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Egypt to offer coronavirus testing in all general hospitals
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt signalled an expansion of testing for the new coronavirus on Wednesday, announcing that all the country's 320 general hospitals would offer testing to people showing symptoms o...
May 20, 2020
Lufthansa's Austrian unit agrees savings package
VIENNA (Reuters) - Lufthansa's Austrian unit AUA has agreed a short-time work model and salary cuts of up to 15% with its on-board staff and 20% cost reductions with its suppliers and no longer sees i...
May 20, 2020
Trump administration abruptly postpones New Mexico oil and gas auction
(Reuters) - The Trump administration abruptly postponed an auction of oil and gas leases in New Mexico that had been scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning without providing a reason for the move. Bu...
May 20, 2020
Pompeo calls China virus response 'paltry' compared to damage done
By David Brunnstrom and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China over the coronavirus on Wednesday, calling $2 billion Beijing has pledged to fi...
May 20, 2020
Poor countries need more debt relief during pandemic, Germany's Merkel says
BERLIN (Reuters) - Rich countries should help the world's poorest survive the coronavirus pandemic by keeping up development aid and mulling relief measures that go beyond a moratorium on debt payment...
May 20, 2020
Brazil prepares to vote land bill despite threat of environmental boycott
By Jake Spring and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Leaders of Brazil's lower house of Congress reached a deal on Wednesday to vote on a land bill seen by some as contributing to deforesta...
May 20, 2020
Lebanon seeks foreign government-backed financing for power plants after default
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has turned to global power plant manufacturers including General Electric to arrange financing to build badly needed electricity capacity, hoping favourable ter...
May 20, 2020
Ireland expects scepticism in EU at UK Northern Ireland proposal
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain's proposal on Wednesday that its Brexit divorce deal would require no new customs infrastructure in Northern Ireland will be met with scepticism by many in the European Unio...
May 20, 2020
BlackRock willing to lower ask on Argentine restructuring counter to 50-55 cents: source
LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc is willing to drop the ask in a debt restructuring proposal to the Argentine government to between 50-55 cents on the dollar and had made the suggestion to its credito...
May 20, 2020
Colombia follows Argentina in banning all international flights through August 31
By Marcelo Rochabrun SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Colombia on Wednesday followed Argentina's footsteps and imposed one of the toughest travel bans in the world to fight coronavirus, saying no international p...
May 20, 2020
