Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oil drops for second day as worsening pandemic threatens demand drop
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell nearly 1% on Friday, extending losses into a second day as rising production of crude comes amid a worsening COVID-19 pandemic which threatens to bring more restricti...
Oct 01, 2020
Heat adapting after injury-plagued Game 1 loss to Lakers
By Amy Tennery (Reuters) - Miami Heat players insisted their team can bounce back from a tough loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, despite injuries that sidelined two of their ...
Oct 01, 2020
Ahead of U.S. election, malicious email campaign mimics Democratic pitches for volunteers
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of emails sent on Thursday that asked recipients to volunteer for the Democratic Party ahead of the November U.S. election actually came from...
Oct 01, 2020
Paraguay declares state of emergency as forest fires rage
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's Congress declared a national emergency on Thursday as forest fires raged, burning vast swaths of the Chaco dry forest, home to sprawling cattle ranc...
Oct 01, 2020
North Korea’s Kim tours flood-hit town, sister reappears in public
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected recovery efforts in a flooded village, his latest visit to areas damaged by recent typhoons, while his sister reappeared in public for the f...
Oct 01, 2020
Trump vows to reverse ‘ridiculous’ move to make Navy SEAL ethos gender-neutral
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a military decision to make the Navy SEAL ethos gender-neutral was "ridiculous" and vowed to overturn it, his latest move to interve...
Oct 01, 2020
Japan’s jobs market worsens in August as coronavirus damage persists
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's unemployment rate rose in August to its highest in over three years and job availability fell to a more than six-year low, government data showed on Fri...
Oct 01, 2020
Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot state says daily cases near four-month low
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New daily coronavirus infections in Australia's hotspot state Victoria have fallen to a near four-month low, authorities said on Friday, as other states recorded only imported cases...
Oct 01, 2020
Mainland China reports 10 COVID-19 cases vs. 11 a day earlier
(Reuters) - Mainland China reported 10 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 1, down from 11 a day earlier, the country's health authority reported on Friday. The National Health Commission said in a statement a...
Oct 01, 2020
Dollar soft as traders expect stimulus and await U.S. jobs data
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar drifted toward posting its softest week in more than a month on Friday, as revived hopes for a new U.S. stimulus package to boost the world's biggest ...
Oct 01, 2020
