Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil's JBS to take legal action to reopen poultry plant in Santa Catarina
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA will seek legal remedies after a local labor authority ordered it to close a poultry plant in southern Brazil to curb the coronavirus, JBS said on Mon...
May 18, 2020
Spain's king and economy minister at event over lockdown limit
By Inti Landauro and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe gave a speech at a conference in Madrid on Monday attended by the economy minister and others in an audience over the size authori...
May 18, 2020
Congo says it won't renew contract with passport maker Semlex
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will not renew a contract with Belgian manufacturer Semlex to make its passports, according to a senior official and a letter seen by Reuters. Prosecu...
May 18, 2020
AstraZeneca in talks with other governments to replicate UK vaccine deal
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc said it was in talks with governments around the world to strike coronovirus vaccine production deals similar to one it agreed with Britain over the weeken...
May 18, 2020
Northern Ireland eases restrictions, Ireland deaths at seven-week low
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland gently eased its coronavirus restrictions on Monday, allowing small groups to meet outside and churchgoers to pray alone, broadly keeping pace with Ireland where a ...
May 18, 2020
Goldman Sachs: Brazil, Turkey vulnerable to local debt splurge
LONDON (Reuters) - Brazil, Turkey and some frontier markets face the biggest risk from a possible surge in local sovereign debt issuance as developing governments ramp up spending to tackle the econom...
May 18, 2020
Rome's coronavirus-hit Raphael exhibition to reopen in June
ROME (Reuters) - An exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael will reopen on June 2 in Rome and its run extended until Aug.30, after it fell foul of the...
May 18, 2020
Amid 'some calm', U.N. envoy urges U.S., Russia push for Syria peace
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations Syria mediator urged the United States and Russia on Monday to make the most of "some calm" in the war-torn country and talk with each other about a push for pe...
May 18, 2020
IMF chief says ratings worries dampen interest in G20 debt relief
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the world's poorest countries are reluctant to seek debt relief under a program backed by the Group of 20 major economies out of concern it could harm t...
May 18, 2020
As Biden crafts U.S. coronavirus response proposals, Warren has his ear
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Joseph Ax and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden has been speaking regularly with former rival Elizabeth Warren on pu...
May 18, 2020
