Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Mother's Day meets peak coronavirus contagion week in Mexico
By Raul Cortes Fernandez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mother's Day, considered one of the most important dates in the social calendar for Mexicans, coincides with what health officials have calculated as t...
May 07, 2020
Australian banks defer payments on $130 billion of loans
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's banks have deferred payments on at least A$200 billion ($130.12 billion) in loans as an economic shutdown to fight the novel coronavirus throws hundreds of thousands out...
May 07, 2020
In video interview, Biden's accuser says he should drop out of White House race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The woman who alleges presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 said in a video interview on Thursday that he should withdraw from the...
May 07, 2020
China reports one new coronavirus case, 16 asymptomatic cases
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported one new coronavirus case for May 7, down from the two cases the day before, data from the national health authority showed on Friday. No new imported cases were rec...
May 07, 2020
Georgia father, son arrested on murder charges in shooting of unarmed black man
(Reuters) - A former white police officer and his son were arrested on Thursday in Georgia and charged with murder in the death of an unarmed black man in an incident that has touched off a furor in t...
May 07, 2020
Australia to provide Pacific nations rapid COVID-19 test kits
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will provide Pacific island nations new rapid diagnostic COVID-19 kits in a joint initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States and New Zealand, t...
May 07, 2020
Tunisia allows Turkish medical aid plane to land for Libyans
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia allowed a Turkish plane to land at its southern airport of Zarzis to deliver medical aid to Libyans at the Ras Jedir border crossing, the presidency said on Friday. Tunisia d...
May 07, 2020
'Full-flower supermoon' rises on world starting to emerge from pandemic lockdowns
(Reuters) - The last "supermoon" of 2020 rose in the night sky on Thursday over a world beginning to re-emerge after weeks of coronavirus-related lockdowns. The supermoon phenomenon occurs when the mo...
May 07, 2020
Argentina issues $1.76 billion in swap as deadline approaches on debt proposal
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina said on Thursday it had exchanged treasury bonds in local currency for new instruments worth a total of 118.365 billion pesos ($1.76 billion) on the eve of a deadlin...
May 07, 2020
Japan's coronavirus shutdowns push service sector activity to record low: PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's services sector shrank at the fastest pace on record in April as a huge blow to demand from the coronavirus epidemic and subsequent lockdown measures greatly hurt business ac...
May 07, 2020
