Author Archives: Syndicated Content
William Hill shares surge 20% on report of Apollo bid approach
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in William Hill surged over 20% on Friday after a news report by Bloomberg said the UK bookmaker had been approached by private equity firm Apollo Global Management for a pot...
Sep 25, 2020
‘Like the Stasi’: UK lawmaker slams COVID-era snooping
LONDON (Reuters) - A British lawmaker photographed by a member of the public travelling in London without a face mask has said the COVID-19 pandemic is fostering a culture of snooping that recalls Eas...
Sep 25, 2020
French Open battles gloom as bad weather looms
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - The French Open starts on Sunday with an ever-shrinking number of spectators allowed at Roland Garros, the players facing tight restrictions and bad weather threaten...
Sep 25, 2020
Golf: Soderberg withdrawn from Irish Open due to COVID-19 concerns
(Reuters) - Sweden's Sebastian Soderberg has been withdrawn from the Irish Open ahead of the second round after being notified of a contact who has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, the Europ...
Sep 25, 2020
Chain reaction: bikes and pedestrians do battle in COVID-era Paris
By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - Parisian commuters in their thousands reacted to the COVID-19 epidemic by ditching public transport and walking or biking instead, but now they find themselves fi...
Sep 25, 2020
With schools shut, Indonesian bus drivers ferry COVID-19 patients instead
By Willy Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) - For the past decade, Yusuf Iswahyu has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus to and from their schools. But with many shut due to COVID-19, the 29-year-o...
Sep 25, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus single-day 207 death toll highest since August 1: health ministry
(Reuters) - Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 on Friday, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 439,882, a health ministry spokeswoman said. It was the h...
Sep 25, 2020
Facebook critics launch rival oversight board
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Critics of Facebook Inc, including the architects of an advertising boycott against the company, on Friday launched a rival oversight board to review the compan...
Sep 25, 2020
Facebook critics launch rival oversight board
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Critics of Facebook Inc, including the architects of an advertising boycott against the company, on Friday launched a rival oversight board to review the compan...
Sep 25, 2020
Retired Colonel Bah Ndaw sworn in as Mali interim president
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Retired Colonel Bah Ndaw was sworn in on Friday as Mali's interim president, tasked with presiding over an 18-month transition back to civilian rule following the Aug. 18 military c...
Sep 25, 2020
