Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oil prices rise on demand prospects as lockdowns start to ease
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices climbed in early trade on Tuesday, adding to gains in the previous session, on expectations that fuel demand will begin to pick up as some U.S. states a...
May 04, 2020
New Zealand records no new coronavirus cases for a second day
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand recorded no new coronavirus cases for a second day in a row on Tuesday, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the outcome of her discussions with Australia on a tra...
May 04, 2020
NFL will release 2020 schedule Thursday
The NFL will release the full 2020 schedule on Thursday in a three-hour, prime-time television special. The show will start at 8 p.m. ET and will air on NFL Network and the league's app. The telecast ...
May 04, 2020
Japan's coronavirus lockdown strips exotic dancer of her savings
By Kim Kyung Hoon and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Exotic dancer Aya Yumiko has been living off her savings since March waiting for the bars and clubs in Tokyo where she performs in burlesque shows to ...
May 04, 2020
New Zealand joins Australia's coronavirus cabinet meeting to discuss travel hub
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand's prime minister joined Australia's coronavirus cabinet meeting on Tuesday as the neighbouring countries discuss reopening their borders to trans-Tasman travel following...
May 04, 2020
Foreign workers feel the pain of 'corona job cuts' in Japan
By Sakura Murakami TSU, Japan (Reuters) - Eight years after arriving from Brazil, Rennan Yamashita sat in a government office in central Japan, filling out forms for unemployment insurance after losin...
May 04, 2020
Brazil health minister downplays need for new hospital in virus-hit Manaus
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich on Monday disputed the need to set up a new hospital to fight the coronavirus pandemic in hard-hit Manaus, even as the city's hospital...
May 04, 2020
Auditor: Favre received welfare money for no-show speeches
By: Emily Wagster Pettus JACKSON, Miss. - A nonprofit group caught up in an embezzlement scheme in Mississippi used federal welfare money to pay former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for mul...
May 04, 2020
Mexico registers 1,434 new coronavirus cases, 117 deaths
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico registered 1,434 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday and 117 new deaths, a health official said, bringing the total in the country to 24,905 confirmed cases and...
May 04, 2020
Australia consumers see glimmer of hope, start to spend more
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The mood among Australian consumers brightened just a little in the latest week as success in containing the coronavirus led to talk of easing the economic lockdown, helping lift sp...
May 04, 2020
