Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Teachers, medics rally in Spain over poor COVID planning, infections stable
MADRID (Reuters) - Teachers in the Spanish city of Bilbao staged a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest against their regional government's response to the COVID-19 crisis, while health workers in Mad...
Sep 15, 2020
EU calls for U.N. monitoring of Belarus rights abuses: document
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union is calling for close monitoring of the human rights situation in Belarus by the U.N. human rights chief, adding to pressure on Minsk following what ...
Sep 15, 2020
UK’s Sunak says Brexit treaty breach bill is insurance policy
LONDON (Reuters) - Finance minister Rishi Sunak said Britain wants to strike a trade deal with the European Union but it is a tough negotiation and it is responsible to have a bill that breaches the B...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 194,092 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 6,537,627 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 34,597 cases from its previous count, and said the numb...
Sep 15, 2020
Senate won’t support Trump’s Fed nominee Shelton: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Judy Shelton, U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial pick to serve on the Federal Reserve's interest-rate-setting panel, does not have the votes to win confirmation in the U.S. Senate...
Sep 15, 2020
Starved of wifi, Indonesians trade plastic trash to study online
By Yuddy Budiman Cahya and Tommy Andriansyah JAKARTA/BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) - When the coronavirus pandemic forced Indonesian schools to shut, it exposed how millions of households in the Southeas...
Sep 15, 2020
Irish COVID-19 cases hit fresh four-month high
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland reported 357 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since mid-May and up from an average of 203 cases per day over the previous seven days, health depart...
Sep 15, 2020
Turkey extends operations of energy drill ship off Cyprus until mid-October
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Tuesday it had extended the operations of its Yavuz energy drill ship in disputed Mediterranean waters off Cyprus until Oct. 12, in a move that could stir tension bet...
Sep 15, 2020
Irish government to self-isolate after health minister falls ill
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's parliament has been suspended for a week and cabinet ministers have been told to self-isolate after Health Minister Stephen Donnelly fell ill, the speaker of parliament sa...
Sep 15, 2020
Ohio judge lifts ‘arbitrary’ restrictions on ballot drop boxes
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A state judge in Ohio on Tuesday ruled that election officials can set up multiple drop boxes per county for voters to return absentee ballots in the Nov. 3 pre...
Sep 15, 2020
