Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Easter season goes virtual as coronavirus locks out tradition
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - One Catholic priest in rural coastal Ireland delivered socially-distanced blessings from a moving vintage "popemobile". Another in Germany taped pictures of...
Apr 10, 2020
U.S. health expert Fauci: 'Now is no time to back off'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease expert warned on Friday that even though hard-hit spots like New York are showing positive results in the battle against coronavirus, it is too e...
Apr 10, 2020
Poland critical of Russia 10 years after Smolensk air crash
By Marcin Goclowski and Wojciech Zurawski WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's ruling nationalists held scaled-down events on Friday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a plane crash in Russi...
Apr 10, 2020
Russia tells Czechs to hand over dismantled statue of Soviet commander
By Tom Balmforth and Jason Hovet MOSCOW/PRAGUE (Reuters) - Russia has told the Czech Republic to hand over the statue of a prominent Soviet military commander that was dismantled in Prague last week d...
Apr 10, 2020
South Korea reports recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again
By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the...
Apr 10, 2020
Bulgaria to apply to join euro zone's 'waiting room' by end-April
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will apply to join the euro single currency zone's "waiting room" by the end of April, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Friday. Borissov said Sofia will speed up its ap...
Apr 10, 2020
German minister criticises U.S. coronavirus response as too slow: Spiegel
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticised the United States' handling of the coronavirus outbreak as too slow, the latest sign of tensions between the two allies as they ...
Apr 10, 2020
On Russian border, China scrambles to contain coronavirus influx
By Yew Lun Tian and Lusha Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) - A small Chinese city on the border with Russia is mounting an increasingly urgent defence against a surge of new coronavirus cases even as crowds re...
Apr 10, 2020
Head of stricken Kiev monastery says underestimated gravity of coronavirus
By Ilya Zhegulev KIEV (Reuters) - The head of a 1,000-year-old Orthodox monastery that became a hotspot for coronavirus infections in Kiev said he had underestimated the gravity of the pandemic and th...
Apr 10, 2020
EU gives green light to 115 million euro Polish virus measures
WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Union has approved a 527 million zloty (115 million euro) scheme by the Polish government to support its economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The scheme is intended...
Apr 10, 2020
