Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes Madeira Islands in Portugal: EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck the Madeira Islands, an autonomous region of Portugal, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Saturday. The quake had a depth ...
Mar 7, 2020
Number of UK coronavirus cases rises by 46 to 209
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom has risen to 209, up from 163, health officials said on Saturday. So far in Britain, two patients who had confirmed p...
Mar 7, 2020
Soccer: Judge rules Ronaldinho must remain in Paraguayan jail
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - Former Brazilian international Ronaldinho Gaucho was ordered to remain in jail in Paraguay on Saturday after a judge ruled him a flight risk. The ex-Barcelona ...
Mar 7, 2020
Two nursing home residents in British Columbia test positive for coronavirus
(Reuters) - Two residents at a long-care facility in British Columbia with no recent travel history have tested positive for the new coronavirus infection, making it Canada's first known case of the d...
Mar 7, 2020
Saudi Arabia asks people arriving from four countries to self-quarantine
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has asked people who have traveled to Lebanon, Egypt, Italy or South Korea to self-quarantine for two weeks from the day of their arrival in the Kingdom, Saudi state med...
Mar 7, 2020
Passengers on coronavirus-struck ship near San Francisco stuck in queasy limbo
By Kevin Donnellan and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Passengers on a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco after some aboard tested positive for the novel coronavirus did not know on ...
Mar 7, 2020
Afghan political rivals issue parallel invites for inauguration ceremonies
By Orooj Hakimi and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - Abdullah Abdullah, the bitter rival of Afghanistan's president-elect Ashraf Ghani, has issued invitations to a parallel swearing-in ceremony ...
Mar 7, 2020
FDA head says 2.1 million coronavirus tests will have been shipped to labs by Monday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday that materials for 2.1 million coronavirus tests will have been shipped to non-public U.S. labs by Monday, as ...
Mar 7, 2020
Ice hockey: Women's world championship canceled over coronavirus outbreak
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - The women's world ice hockey championship set for this month in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia, has been canceled over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, the Interna...
Mar 7, 2020
Road crash in Syria kills 22, injures 70: state media
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Twenty-two people were killed in Syria on Saturday in a road crash involving a fuel tanker, two buses and other vehicles, the state news agency SANA said. Citing the interior minist...
Mar 7, 2020
