Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turkey in weekend lockdown as coronavirus cases hit record highs
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has entered its first full weekend lockdown since May after coronavirus infections and deaths hit record highs in recent days. The country of 83 million people on Friday reco...
Dec 05, 2020
Ivory Coast to lift suspension of Hershey cocoa sustainability schemes
By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will lift a suspension on cocoa sustainability schemes run by U.S.-based Hershey on its territory that it imposed earlier this week, according to a letter ...
Dec 05, 2020
German court upholds ban on coronavirus demonstration
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's highest court upheld on Saturday a ban on a demonstration in the northern city of Bremen planned by opponents of lockdown measures aimed at containing the spread of the co...
Dec 05, 2020
Trump campaigns for Georgia’s Republican senators – but will that help or hurt?
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will stump on Saturday for Republican U.S. senators in Georgia facing January runoffs, but some in his party worry he may do more harm than good if he s...
Dec 05, 2020
Family bid adieu to former French leader Giscard in intimate ceremony
AUTHON, France (Reuters) - The family of Valery Giscard d'Estaing bid farewell to the former French president in an intimate funeral service in his home village on Saturday. Giscard's coffin was carri...
Dec 05, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus deaths surpass 50,000 – health ministry
(Reuters) - Iran's total death toll from coronavirus surpassed 50,000 on Saturday with 321 new fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said, as the number of cases in the Middle ...
Dec 05, 2020
Cycling-Cavendish joins Deceuninck-Quick Step for 2021
PARIS (Reuters) - Briton Mark Cavendish is joining Deceuninck-Quick Step for the 2021 season, the Belgian outfit where the former world champion spent three years said on Saturday. "Mark Cavendish is ...
Dec 05, 2020
Tesla says Black people hold just 4% of its U.S. leadership roles
(Reuters) - Black employees make up just 4% of Tesla Inc's American leadership roles and 10% of its total workforce in the country, the electric carmaker has disclosed in its first U.S. diversity repo...
Dec 05, 2020
Iran Supreme Court to retry three linked to 2019 protests – news agency
(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Court has agreed to retry three men over links to last year's anti-government protests and whose death sentences have been suspended, the state IRNA news agency reported on ...
Dec 05, 2020
Bahrain says it won’t allow imports from Israeli settlements
DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, state news agency BNA reported, disavowing comments made by the Gulf sta...
Dec 05, 2020
