Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Italy reports coronavirus case in Sicily, first south of Rome
By Wladimiro Pantaleone and Francesca Piscioneri PALERMO/ROME (Reuters) - Italian authorities on Tuesday reported a woman had tested positive for coronavirus in Sicily, the first case south of Rome, a...
Feb 25, 2020
Japan's Dentsu confirms coronavirus infection, instructs employees to work from home
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu Inc said on Tuesday one of the employees at its headquarters has been infected with the new coronavirus and that it has instructed all HQ-ba...
Feb 25, 2020
Saudi Arabia sentences eight on charges of spying for Iran: state TV
RIYADH (Reuters) - A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced one Saudi citizen to death and seven others to jail on charges of treason and spying for Iran, Saudi state television tweeted on Tuesday. The s...
Feb 25, 2020
Netanyahu says will press ahead with E-1 settlement project in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was moving forward with a plan to build some 3,500 homes for Jewish settlers on the outskirts of Jerusalem, a project...
Feb 25, 2020
Judge orders talks over plans to move virus patients to a California city
By Kanishka Singh and Bhargav Acharya (Reuters) - A U.S. judge barred the government from relocating coronavirus patients to southern California for another week on Monday and ordered it to discuss th...
Feb 25, 2020
After a Four Seasons breakfast, Harvey Weinstein sent to dank New York jail
By Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein's day began with expensive coffee and Acqua Panna mineral water at a breakfast meeting with his lawyers in a Four Seasons hotel near Manhattan's crimi...
Feb 25, 2020
Japan Inc shifts to online press briefings as coronavirus spreads
By Takashi Umekawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) on Tuesday became the latest Japanese firm to cancel a news conference due to fears over the escalating coronavirus outbr...
Feb 25, 2020
China's main manufacturing hubs reboot after virus shutdown
By Muyu Xu and Josh Horwitz BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As many parts of China ease coronavirus travel curbs, main manufacturing hubs in the east and south are seeing hundreds of thousands of migrant...
Feb 25, 2020
'Where's Abe?' critics ask, as coronavirus spreads in Japan
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - As Japan struggles to stem the spread of a coronavirus within its borders, critics are asking, "Where's Abe?" Shinzo Abe, 65, Japan's longest serving prime minister, ha...
Feb 25, 2020
EU ministers to approve negotiating mandate for UK trade deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments are set to adopt a negotiating mandate for their executive European Commission on Tuesday to clinch a deal with Britain this year on future ties after i...
Feb 25, 2020
