Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID-19 outbreak hits EU patrol boat docked in Italy
ROME (Reuters) - Some 51 out of 186 crew members of a European Union naval vessel on Friday tested positive for the coronavirus, the EU's Irini military mission said in a statement, adding the infecti...
Sep 25, 2020
Iran’s oil exports jump in September defying sanctions: TankerTrackers
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian oil exports have risen sharply in September in defiance of U.S. sanctions, three assessments based on tanker tracking showed, throwi...
Sep 25, 2020
Disgraced cardinal denies wrong-doing, says ready to give life to pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An Italian cardinal forced to quit his powerful Vatican post, said on Friday Pope Francis had accused him of embezzlement, but he denied wrongdoing and vowed he was ready to l...
Sep 25, 2020
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Golf: Soderberg withdrawn from Irish Open due to COVID-19 concerns
(Reuters) - Sweden's Sebastian Soderberg has been withdrawn from the Irish Open ahead of the second round after being notified of a contact who has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, the Europ...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
