Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Six Tokyo Olympic torch staffers diagnosed with COVID-19
TOKYO (Reuters) - Six people who helped with Japan's Olympic Torch relay were diagnosed with COVID-19, bringing the total number of participants in the event who got the coronavirus to eight, organise...
May 01, 2021
Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 16,290
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 16,290 to 3,416,822, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday. The report...
May 01, 2021
Australia’s Perth at risk of second snap-lockdown with three new COVID-19 infections
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's fourth-largest city faces prospects of its second snap lockdown in two weeks, officials said on Sunday, after a hotel quarantine security guard in Perth and two of his h...
May 01, 2021
Thailand reports 1,940 new coronavirus cases, 21 deaths
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Sunday reported 1,940 new coronavirus cases amid a deadly third wave of the virus. The Health Ministry recorded a second day of 21 deaths, the highest daily number of f...
May 01, 2021
Bukele allies seek judges’ ouster as new Congress convenes in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Lawmakers aligned with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sought on Saturday to swiftly remove all of the judges on the country's top court, in a bid the opposition and some in...
May 01, 2021
Top Peru presidential candidate vows to curb foreign firms ‘looting’ mining wealth
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian presidential election front-runner, socialist Pedro Castillo, said on Saturday he would, if elected, review contracts with foreign miners in the copper-rich c...
May 01, 2021
Australia to spend $1.3 billion on childcare, enticing women back to work
By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's conservative government will increase childcare subsidies, officials said on Sunday, in a pre-budget announcement that pledges A$1.7 billion ($1.31 bill...
May 01, 2021
Taiwan’s first batch of COVID-19 aid leaves for India
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's first batch of aid to India to help it fight a surging increase in COVID-19 infections left for New Delhi on Sunday, consisting of 150 oxygen concentrators and 500 oxygen c...
May 01, 2021
Red Wings blank Lightning in marathon shootout
Sam Gagner scored in the eighth round of a shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 1-0 home win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday. Tampa Bay outshot Detroit in regulation and overtime, 33-15, ...
May 01, 2021
Hot Yankees dispatch struggling Tigers
Jameson Taillon allowed one run in five effective innings for his first win in exactly two years, and Aaron Judge drove in three runs, including a tie-breaking RBI double in the fifth inning, as the h...
May 01, 2021
