Author Archives: Syndicated Content
On canceled Opening Day, Manfred confident MLB will be back
On the day the 2020 Major League Baseball season was supposed to begin, commissioner Rob Manfred vowed the game would return as part of the recovery from the grips of the coronavirus pandemic. "The on...
Mar 26, 2020
Exclusive: Coronavirus crisis could destroy far more than 25 million jobs - ILO official
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of jobs lost around the world due to the coronavirus crisis could be "far higher" than the 25 million the International Labour Organization (ILO) est...
Mar 26, 2020
In oil markets, it's back to 1998 crisis pricing
By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - Brent oil futures may be trading at $27 per barrel but oil producers are selling their crude in the physical market at lower prices not seen since the aftermath of th...
Mar 26, 2020
Turkey struggles to ramp up tests as outbreak reaches critical phase
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Can Sezer ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A week after sending half a million coronavirus test kits to the United States, Turkey is struggling to ramp up its own testing for the dise...
Mar 26, 2020
London's homeless stuck on the streets during coronavirus lockdown
LONDON (Reuters) - As most of Britain headed indoors to wait out the coronavirus, rough sleeper Mohamed Sisi stayed on a patch of pavement opposite London's Charing Cross rail station with nowhere els...
Mar 26, 2020
EU struggles to unite over economic response to coronavirus
By Francesco Guarascio and Andreas Rinke BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders wrangled over how far to go on rolling out emergency aid for their economies hit by the coronavirus on Thursday, wi...
Mar 26, 2020
Explainer: Hobbled IRS tax agency may need months to get cash to Americans
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In order to put recession-fighting checks into the hands of millions of Americans, the U.S. government will rely on a tax agency that has fewer workers, a small...
Mar 26, 2020
Italian scientists investigate possible earlier emergence of coronavirus
By Emilio Parodi and Silvia Aloisi MILAN (Reuters) - Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 ...
Mar 26, 2020
China implementing $344 billion of mainly fiscal measures in coronavirus fight
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is implementing $344 billion of mainly fiscal measures in its fight against the coronavirus outbreak, a Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday. The money already spent in...
Mar 26, 2020
Kazakhstan reports first death due to coronavirus
ALMATY (Reuters) - A Kazakhstan citizen diagnosed with the coronavirus died on Thursday, the Minister of Information and Social Development said, reporting the country's first death related to the glo...
Mar 26, 2020
