Author Archives: Syndicated Content
New York governor closes schools in coronavirus ‘hot spots’
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered schools to close from Tuesday onwards in several coronavirus "hot spots" around the state, including parts of the New York City boroughs of ...
Oct 05, 2020
Up in smoke: California wine country counts cost of wildfire damage
By Marco Hernandez and Simon Scarr (Reuters) - When a wildfire swept down California's Napa Valley in August, winemaker Patrick Elliot-Smith stayed put, fighting the encroaching flames with water pump...
Oct 05, 2020
Djokovic battles past Khachanov in first real test
PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic passed his first real test at this year's French Open with flying colours as he battled past Russia's Karen Khachanov 6-4 6-3 6-3 on Monday to reach the quart...
Oct 05, 2020
Luge-U.S. team sitting out World Cup events in Europe due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - USA Luge said on Monday it will sit out four World Cup events in Europe later this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak and will resume international competition at some point in 2021. Citing...
Oct 05, 2020
Spain tops 800,000 coronavirus cases after weekend jump
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain became the first Western European nation to surpass 800,000 total coronavirus cases after registering 23,480 new infections over the weekend, health ministry data showed on Mo...
Oct 05, 2020
UK health minister says will simplify approach to local COVID-19 restrictions
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock on Monday said that he was working on proposals to simplify England's patchwork of local COVID-19 restrictions and would present them to parliam...
Oct 05, 2020
Johnson & Johnson to pay more than $100 million to settle over 1,000 talc lawsuits: Bloomberg
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $100 million to settle over 1,000 lawsuits that allege the company's Baby Powder caused cancer, Bloomberg news reported on Monday https://www.bloomberg...
Oct 05, 2020
Chiefs, Patriots to play Monday with no new COVID positives
A second "Monday Night Football" contest was finalized Monday morning when the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs received universal COVID-19 negative test results. According to multiple repo...
Oct 05, 2020
UK to follow clinical advice in deploying COVID-19 vaccine, health minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will roll out COVID-19 vaccinations when they are ready based on clinical advice about who should be prioritised, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday, after a report...
Oct 05, 2020
Biden says he is willing to debate Trump if experts say it is safe
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden said on Monday he is willing to participate in next week's scheduled debate with President Donald Trump if health experts say it would be safe. ...
Oct 05, 2020
