Author Archives: Syndicated Content
'Dear Elon': Ukraine takes up Tesla's ventilator offer via Twitter
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has taken to Twitter to ask Elon Musk to send it ventilators after the billionaire chief executive of Tesla Inc offered to ship them across the world during the coronavirus pa...
Apr 02, 2020
Aerospace suppliers face bailout dilemma over job cuts
By Allison Lampert and Tracy Rucinski MONTREAL/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Aerospace suppliers are drawing up plans to lay off workers as coronavirus quarantines cripple their cash balances - but bailout cond...
Apr 02, 2020
Lights, camera, audit: accountants grapple with remote company check-ups
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - As audit season begins for British companies, some auditors stuck at home in coronavirus lockdown are turning to cameras to check clients' inventories, plant and equipm...
Apr 02, 2020
Portugal extends state of emergency to halt spread of coronavirus
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament approved the extension of a state of emergency by another 15 days on Thursday to stop the spread of the coronavirus, as the number of deaths from the disease r...
Apr 02, 2020
Coronavirus compounds Lebanon's woes, many struggle for food
By Tom Perry and Issam Abdallah BEIRUT (Reuters) - Battered by Lebanon's economic crisis, Hassan Zeitar was already struggling to keep his family fed when the coronavirus lockdown stripped him of the ...
Apr 02, 2020
Italy business lobby sees industry output down as much as 15% in second quarter
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's main business association said on Thursday it saw the country's industrial production falling as much as 15% in the second quarter of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak,...
Apr 02, 2020
Saudi Arabia imposes 24-hour curfew in Mecca and Medina
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia imposed a 24-hour curfew in Mecca and Medina on Thursday, the interior ministry said, extending measures taken to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has infect...
Apr 02, 2020
Red Cross to deliver supplies for COVID-19 patients in separatist eastern Ukraine
GENEVA (Reuters) - A planeload of medical supplies for COVID-19 patients and other relief goods has arrived in Ukraine to help people enduring a six-year-old conflict in the country's east, the Intern...
Apr 02, 2020
Fielmann to donate 20,000 protective glasses to fight coronavirus
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German eyewear manufacturer Fielmann has started to produce protective glasses to combat the spread of the coronavirus and plans to donate the first 20,000 to hospitals and other...
Apr 02, 2020
German economy could shrink more this year than in 2008/9 crisis: minister
By Michelle Martin and Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's largest economy might shrink more this year than during the 2008/9 financial crisis, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Th...
Apr 02, 2020
