Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Britain and EU exchange Brexit agreement drafts
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union have exchanged draft legal texts containing their proposals for how relations between the two sides should work after the end of a Brexit transition p...
Mar 18, 2020
Big Three automakers to close through March 30
DETROIT, MI (WTVB) - Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Fiat-Chrysler will close their plants due to the coronavirus outbreak. Ford said in a statement Wednesday that its United States, Canadian, ...
Mar 18, 2020
Iran's supreme leader to pardon 10,000 prisoners, including political ones
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10,000 prisoners including political ones in honor of the Iranian new year on Friday, state TV reported. "Those who will be p...
Mar 18, 2020
Jeweler Pandora temporarily closes stores in some countries
(Reuters) - Jeweler Pandora A/S said on Wednesday it has temporarily closed all its physical owned- and operated-stores in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the United States, among other places, in l...
Mar 18, 2020
Shell to suspend construction of Pennsylvania chemical facility
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc will temporarily suspend construction activities on a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker being constructed along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvan...
Mar 18, 2020
Toyota Motor shutting North American plants for two days next week
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said it will close its North American plants on Monday and Tuesday of next week and will reopen on Wednesday amid the expected coronavirus sales decline. The largest Japa...
Mar 18, 2020
Nigeria bans entry to arrivals from 13 countries to combat coronavirus
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will from Saturday ban entry to arrivals from 13 of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus epidemic, the minister of interior said on Wednesday. All t...
Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus-linked recession to hit Brazil, Mexico, Latin America this year: Goldman Sachs
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Economists at Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday they expect the Latin American economy, including its two biggest components Brazil and Mexico, to tip into recession this year, citi...
Mar 18, 2020
Meet the Americans still going out and gathering in large groups
By Andrew Hay and Jessica Resnick-Ault TAOS, New Mexico/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As people in San Francisco shelter in place and New York City was warned to prepare for a similar measure, some 40 people m...
Mar 18, 2020
Explainer: What's in the U.S. coronavirus aid bill that just passed Congress?
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a more than $100 billion coronavirus aid package on Wednesday, sending it on to President Donald Trump who is expected to sign it into la...
Mar 18, 2020
