Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain adds 13,300 COVID infections, Catalonia to shut bars, eateries
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's cumulative tally of coronavirus infections rose by over 13,300 on Thursday to 921,374 in a slight acceleration from the previous few days, as the region of Catalonia was pre...
Oct 15, 2020
France’s new COVID-19 cases and deaths rise
PARIS (Reuters) - French health authorities on Thursday reported 30,621 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, up on Wednesday's 22,591, while hospitalisations and deaths linked to the diseas...
Oct 15, 2020
France’s Renault draws down part of state-backed loan
PARIS (Reuters) - French carmaker Renault has drawn down part of a 5 billion-euro ($5.85 billion) loan guaranteed by the French government, put in place earlier this year to shore up its finances duri...
Oct 15, 2020
Twenty killed in northern Burkina Faso attacks, says government
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Armed groups have killed about 20 people in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement on Thursday. The attacks on the villages of D...
Oct 15, 2020
Italy’s Campania region to shut down schools to curb surge in COVID-19 infections – statement
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's southern Campania region, around Naples, on Thursday announced it would shut down schools until the end of October, the region said in a statement, in an effort to curb an inc...
Oct 15, 2020
Fiat Chrysler to invest up to $1.5 billion to build EVs at Canadian plant
(Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will invest between $1.35 billion and $1.5 billion in its Windsor assembly plant in Canada to build electric vehicles as part of a tentative deal with Canadian...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. charges Houston technology mogul Robert Brockman with tax, securities fraud
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged Houston-based technology executive Robert Brockman with hiding $2 billion in income from the IRS over 20 ...
Oct 15, 2020
Rossi tests positive for COVID-19, to miss Aragon MotoGP
(Reuters) - Nine-times world champion Valentino Rossi has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss this weekend's Aragon MotoGP, the Yamaha rider said on Thursday. Italian Rossi, 41, has failed to f...
Oct 15, 2020
Wall Street veteran Ray McGuire to run for New York mayor
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Imani Moise (Reuters) - Ray McGuire, one of the senior-most Black executives on Wall Street, is leaving his job at Citigroup Inc to run for mayor of New York in 2021, his sp...
Oct 15, 2020
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Biden tested negative again for COVID-19
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday night, his campaign said in a regular update. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; ...
Oct 15, 2020
