Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Amazon discloses virus count: 19,000, or 1.44%, of U.S. frontline workforce
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure long sought by la...
Oct 01, 2020
Universal Health Services says its network is being restored after malware incident
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Thursday that its corporate network is being restored after a malware incident knocked it out for five days. In a statement, the hea...
Oct 01, 2020
50 U.S. senators call for talks on trade agreement with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty U.S. senators from both parties called on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to begin negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan, part of a push...
Oct 01, 2020
Teenager Burel lifts French spirits in Paris
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Less than a year ago, Clara Burel was playing tennis with foam balls following a wrist injury, but on Thursday the teenager became the youngest French woman in 12 ye...
Oct 01, 2020
From hungry squirrels to cyberattacks, exchange outages roil markets
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was brought to a standstill by a hardware failure on Thursday, in the worst-ever outage for the world's third-largest equity ma...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. oil producers on pace for most bankruptcies since last oil downturn
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Arathy S Nair NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oasis Petroleum Inc and Lonestar Resources US Inc's bankruptcy filings are the latest in a slew of restructurings that put oil-and-gas pr...
Oct 01, 2020
Coal baron Murray seeks U.S. benefits to treat his black lung disease – report
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, whose company Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy last year, has applied for federal benefits to treat his black lung disease ...
Oct 01, 2020
Mexico top court backs referendum on prosecuting ex-presidents
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly backed a bid by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to hold a referendum on whether to allow the prosecution of five of his predec...
Oct 01, 2020
After Pompeo criticism, Vatican asserts right to go its own way on China
By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican's number two said on Thursday after talks with Mike Pompeo that the two sides' positions on China remained far apart and firmly asserted the Holy See's ...
Oct 01, 2020
Trump signals he might not accept changes to debate rules after chaotic clash
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled he might not accept rule changes for upcoming presidential debates which organizers have said will be needed to r...
Oct 01, 2020
