Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Inside ICU, Turkish doctors rush back to work after coronavirus recovery
By Umit Bektas ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the intensive care unit of a hospital in Istanbul, the heart of Turkey's coronavirus outbreak, doctors and nurses have rushed back to duty to fight against the p...
Apr 15, 2020
UK lenders provide 1.1 billion pounds in emergency COVID loans
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks have provided 1.115 billion pounds ($1.39 billion) in emergency loans to small and medium-sized companies under a government-backed scheme to help businesses survive...
Apr 15, 2020
On fire's anniversary, Notre-Dame's great bell to break its silence
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - A year on from the inferno that gutted Notre-Dame de Paris and stunned the world, the cathedral's great bell will ring out on Wednesday evening, as a mark of the ...
Apr 15, 2020
Bank of Italy warns virus crisis may tip some smaller banks over the edge
ROME (Reuters) - Italian banks have a solid liquidity and capital position to face the coronavirus crisis but some smaller lenders may not be able to sustain its impact, the central bank warned on Wed...
Apr 15, 2020
'As long as necessary': Coronavirus holdout Palau opts for self-isolation
By Martin Petty (Reuters) - The Pacific island nation of Palau is one of the world's last countries still free of the coronavirus, and it's doing all it can to stay that way. As the contagion closes i...
Apr 15, 2020
Taiwan wades into hotly contested Pacific with its own coronavirus diplomacy
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan waded into the hotly contested politics of the Pacific on Wednesday, donating face masks and thermal cameras to its four diplomatic allies there to combat th...
Apr 15, 2020
Exclusive: India agrees to sell hydroxychloroquine to Malaysia to help fight COVID-19
By Neha Arora and Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister ...
Apr 15, 2020
Oil market falls too big to offset with output cuts, IEA warns
LONDON (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday forecast a 29 million barrel per day (bpd) dive in April oil demand to levels not seen in 25 years and warned no output cut by pro...
Apr 15, 2020
China first-quarter FDI plunges 10.8% year-on-year in yuan terms as virus bites
BEIJING (Reuters) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China fell 10.8% in January-March to 216.19 billion yuan ($30.62 billion) compared with a year earlier, dragged down by the coronavirus pandemi...
Apr 15, 2020
Germany arrests four men from Tajikistan suspected of planning attack
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested on Wednesday four suspected members of Islamic State, all from Tajikistan, believed to have been planning deadly attacks in Germany, prosecutors said. Special...
Apr 15, 2020
