Author Archives: Syndicated Content
United Airlines pilots accept deal to avoid imminent furloughs
CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines' pilots have voted to accept a deal that would avert the immediate furlough of thousands of pilots, the company said on Monday, even without an extension of federal...
Sep 28, 2020
Official COVID-19 death toll probably underestimates true total: WHO
GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - The official global toll of deaths from COVID-19 probably underestimates the true total - suggesting it could be over a million already, a World Health Organization official ...
Sep 28, 2020
Universal Health Services offline due to ‘IT security issue’
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Monday that its network has been knocked offline following an unspecified "IT security issue." The company, which runs some 400 hosp...
Sep 28, 2020
Philippines extends partial coronavirus curbs in Manila until Oct 31
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday partial coronavirus restrictions in and around the capital region will be extended for another month until Oct. 31 to keep the sp...
Sep 28, 2020
Markets in Q3: The charge before the storm
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Financial markets roared into the second half of the year in full-throttle comeback mode. The only problem was that the coronavirus came back too. The pandemic never r...
Sep 28, 2020
Slovakia bans most public cultural, sports events over COVID-19, says PM
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia's government has banned most public cultural and sports events due to the accelerating spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Monday. Matovic told a...
Sep 28, 2020
U.S. appeals at WTO to place Canada lumber case in legal void
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States is appealing at the World Trade Organization against a ruling that largely favoured Canada in a long-running dispute over lumber, putting the case into a legal v...
Sep 28, 2020
Trump says he will approve permit for Canada to Alaska railway to free landlocked oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter over the weekend he would issue a permit for a railway project from Canada's oil sands to ports in Alaska, a project that has many regula...
Sep 28, 2020
Pelosi says Trump administration must boost COVID-19 aid offer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the Trump administration to boost their offer for more financial aid amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, saying she planned further ta...
Sep 28, 2020
Spain reports 31,785 new coronavirus cases since Friday
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases reached 748,266 on Monday, rising by 31,785 from Friday's total, health ministry data showed. The cumulative death toll reached 31,411 f...
Sep 28, 2020
