Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK’s Queen Elizabeth cancels big palace events for the year
(Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been forced to cancel all large-scale events at her Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle homes for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the p...
Oct 01, 2020
Turkey and Poland added to England’s COVID-19 quarantine list
LONDON (Reuters) - Travellers arriving in England from Turkey and Poland will have to self-isolate for 14 days from early on Saturday, Britain's transport minister Grant Shapps said as he expanded the...
Oct 01, 2020
Human rights lawyers sue Trump administration over ‘unconstitutional’ ICC sanctions
By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Human rights lawyers launched a legal challenge on Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of the wo...
Oct 01, 2020
Muguruza eases into French Open third round
PARIS (Reuters) - Former champion Garbine Muguruza breezed into the French Open third round with a routine 6-3 6-2 victory over Czech Kristyna Pliskova on Thursday. It was a welcome stroll on court Su...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. says won’t hesitate to act against threats to personnel in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not hesitate to act to protect its personnel in Iraq, where it considers Iranian-backed militias that have attacked U.S. targets to be the country's "sing...
Oct 01, 2020
Over 1,000 Honduran migrants enter Guatemala as new caravan heads for U.S.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Honduran migrants have crossed illegally into Guatemala in a bid to reach the United States as a major new caravan formed barely a month ahead of U.S. presid...
Oct 01, 2020
Britain’s National Health Service targets net zero emissions by 2040
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's National Health Service pledged on Thursday to become the world's first healthcare system to cut carbon emissions to net zero, hoping to achieve that by 2...
Oct 01, 2020
New York Catholic diocese files for bankruptcy, cites abuse lawsuit costs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic diocese in New York's suburbs on Long Island, one of the largest in the United States, on Thursday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the cost of lawsuits fi...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. charges BitMEX cryptocurrency officials with violating Bank Secrecy Act
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges accusing four founders and executives of the BitMEX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange of failing to take sufficient steps to ...
Oct 01, 2020
Coronavirus positivity rate in 20 New York ‘hot spots’ rises to 6.5%
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rate of positive coronavirus tests in 20 New York "hot spot" ZIP codes rose to 6.5% from 5.5% the day before, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Thursday. The ov...
Oct 01, 2020
