Author Archives: Syndicated Content
For sports, coronavirus testing remains a major hurdle
By: Tim Reynolds MIAMI - Politicians, players and owners are trying to figure out a way to get baseball, basketball and hockey going again, not only for economic reasons but as a welcome diversion for...
May 02, 2020
Austrians let their hair down as coronavirus curbs are relaxed
By Lisi Niesner VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrians flocked to newly reopened hairdressers, beauticians and electronics shops on Saturday, as they relished the loosening of a seven-week-old coronavirus lockd...
May 02, 2020
Bison Hoops Adds Missouri All-State Guard Dezmond McKinney
FARGO, N.D. (NDSU Athletics) - North Dakota State University head men's basketball coach David Richman announced the signing of Dezmond McKinney to the 2020 recruiting class on Saturday, May 2. McKinn...
May 02, 2020
UK COVID-19 death toll rises to 28,131, shadowing Italy
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll rose 621 to 28,131 as of May 1, just short of Italy which has had the deadliest novel coronavirus outbreak among European countries. "Sadly ...
May 02, 2020
U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl's parents challenge freeing of his convicted killers
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Slain U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl's parents have petitioned to the Pakistani Supreme Court seeking to overturn a ruling that freed four men who had been convicte...
May 02, 2020
France set to impose 14-day coronavirus quarantine for travellers
PARIS (Reuters) - Travellers to France, including French citizens returning home, will face a compulsory two-week quarantine and possible isolation when they arrive in the country to help slow the spr...
May 02, 2020
Taliban, U.S. engage in Twitter spat amid rise in Afghanistan violence
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Representatives of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Taliban insurgents engaged in a rare public spat on Saturday, venting on social media about the stalling Afgha...
May 02, 2020
Growing chances more Slovak shops will reopen soon, prime minister says
By Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - Chances are rising that Slovakia will allow more shops to open next week, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Saturday as the number of new coronavirus infections rem...
May 02, 2020
Prisoners take guards hostage in Brazil's coronavirus-hit Manaus
By Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison in Manaus, a Brazilian city deep in the Amazon that has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, have taken seven prison guards hostag...
May 02, 2020
Explainer: When will PM Johnson send Britain back to work?
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due next week to present a possible way out of the coronavirus lockdown to get the world's fifth largest economy back to...
May 02, 2020
