Author Archives: Syndicated Content
We want to work with teachers to restart schools: UK PM's spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government wants to work with teachers and trade unions to help some students return to schools from June 1, the British leader's spokesman said on Mo...
May 18, 2020
Croatia dissolves parliament ahead of election by July 12
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian lawmakers dissolved parliament on Monday, following last week's government proposal, ahead of parliamentary elections due to be held by July 12. President Zoran Milanovic i...
May 18, 2020
Outbreak at Chinese-owned factory shows challenges of easing India's lockdown
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker OPPO suspended operations at a recently re-opened plant in India after workers tested positive for the coronavir...
May 18, 2020
WHO chief to review its pandemic handling, vows transparency
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that he would initiate an independent evaluation of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic at the "earliest appropri...
May 18, 2020
Brazil 2020 GDP consensus falls to -5.1% in biggest drop on record: survey
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economy is expected to shrink by more than 5% this year, a weekly central bank survey of economists showed on Monday, which would be the biggest annual downturn since rec...
May 18, 2020
Climate activists line London's Trafalgar Square with kids' shoes
LONDON (Reuters) - Climate activists placed more than 2,000 pairs of children's shoes in neat rows across London's Trafalgar Square on Monday to demand the British government stop bailing out carbon i...
May 18, 2020
Hungary and Slovenia aim to reopen border by June 1: minister
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary and Slovenia have agreed on a road map towards a gradual reopening of their border by June 1, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on his Facebook page on Mond...
May 18, 2020
China urges local companies to list in London in renewed global push: sources
By Abhinav Ramnarayan, Julie Zhu and Michelle Price LONDON/HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China is urging domestic companies to look at listing in London, several sources told Reuters, as the countr...
May 18, 2020
'I'm lucky': Cancer surgery in midst of coronavirus pandemic
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - As Los Angeles begins to emerge from more than two months of coronavirus lockdown, 40-year-old Marisa Sullivan will have surgery this week to remove a malignant tumor from...
May 18, 2020
Africa backs WHO, needs help with debt relief, supplies: Ramaphosa
GENEVA (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that Africa affirms its "full support" for the World Health Organization (WHO) which he said had been key in guiding the inte...
May 18, 2020
