Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Parisians banned from outdoor sports between 10am and 7pm
PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities tightened their lockdown measures in the capital on Tuesday by banning Parisians from outdoors sports activity between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. local time, aiming to cur...
Apr 07, 2020
Gamers check back in to Habbo Hotel as coronavirus refuge
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) - Habbo Hotel, a hit online networking game more than a decade ago, is drawing back hundreds of thousand of players as locked-down millennials look to rediscover a ...
Apr 07, 2020
Impossible dilemma? World watches Italy as businesses plead to return to work
By Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) - Many Italian companies and academics are pressing the government to reopen factories to prevent an economic catastrophe, as the world watches how the first Western ...
Apr 07, 2020
U.S. job openings fall in February, hiring steady
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings fell in February, suggesting the labor market was losing momentum even before stringent measures to control the coronavirus outbreak shuttered businesses, thro...
Apr 07, 2020
Biden nabs endorsement of prominent black lawmaker John Lewis
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Tuesday, giving the Democrat's bid further support among the party's black leade...
Apr 07, 2020
BWF seek clarity on Denmark's ability to host Thomas & Uber Cup Finals
(Reuters) - Badminton World Federation (BWF) and Badminton Denmark said on Tuesday they are seeking clarification from Danish authorities on how the ban on large gatherings will affect their ability t...
Apr 07, 2020
Beijing-backed AIIB approves emergency loan to China to help with coronavirus response
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said on Tuesday it had approved its first emergency assistance loan of 2.485 billion yuan ($352 million) to China in orde...
Apr 07, 2020
Pandemic to wipe out 6.7% of working hours worldwide in second quarter: ILO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours globally in the second quarter of this year, equivalent to the labour of 195 million full-time workers, the Inter...
Apr 07, 2020
Early Asia tech results signal slow recovery after virus battering
By Josh Horwitz and Heekyong Yang SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Smartphone sales in China are rising again as COVID-19 cases there decline and global demand for chips used in work-from-home networks is s...
Apr 07, 2020
Formula One furloughs staff, bosses take pay cuts
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One has put almost half its staff on furlough until the end of May due to the novel coronavirus with chairman Chase Carey and senior management also taking a pay cut, an F1 ...
Apr 07, 2020
