Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Caesars to buy William Hill for $3.7 billion in sports-betting drive
By Tanishaa Nadkar (Reuters) - U.S. casino operator Caesars Entertainment agreed on Wednesday to buy British-based gambling group William Hill for 2.9 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) to expand in the fa...
Sep 30, 2020
Ukraine reports record daily high of 4,027 new coronavirus cases
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record 4,027 cases of new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the national security council said on Wednesday, up from a previous record of 3,833 new cases reported...
Sep 30, 2020
Japan health workers snub COVID-19 database as PM Suga seeks to digitize government
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese health workers are snubbing the government's real-time COVID-19 database introduced in the middle of the pandemic to better deal with outbreaks, pointing to h...
Sep 30, 2020
‘This clown’ – ‘Nothing smart about you’: Un-presidential insults fly in first Trump-Biden debate
By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - Interrupted repeatedly by President Donald Trump in their presidential debate on Tuesday, an exasperated Joe Biden resorted to insults and name-calling against an opponent...
Sep 30, 2020
Height of fashion? Clothes mountains build up as recycling breaks down
By Sonya Dowsett and George Obulutsa MADRID/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Clothes recycling is the pressure-release valve of fast fashion, and it's breaking under COVID-19 curbs. The multi-billion-dollar trade ...
Sep 30, 2020
Czech Republic reports 1,965 new coronavirus cases
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic reported 1,965 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the fourth straight day below 2,000 after a recent surge, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday. The country h...
Sep 30, 2020
Germany reports 1,798 new coronavirus cases
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported 1,798 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a tally from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed. (Reporting by Thomas Seythal; editing by Riham Alko...
Sep 30, 2020
Relief Therapeutics announces supply deals while awaiting COVID-19 trial data
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's Relief Therapeutics and U.S. partner NeuroRx said on Wednesday they struck deals with Bachem and Nephron Pharmaceuticals to supply and make a 50-year-old drug, aviptad...
Sep 30, 2020
Expatriate New Zealanders seen boosting Ardern’s election bid
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - When recently returned New Zealander Lara Barclay talked to fellow Kiwi expatriates in Australia, it was her country's success in tackling coronavirus that came...
Sep 30, 2020
Families call for access to Hong Kong relatives detained in China
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - The relatives of 12 Hong Kong people arrested by China at sea last month called for access to their detained family members in a petition to the mainland's represe...
Sep 30, 2020
