Author Archives: Syndicated Content
French theme park sparks outcry by skirting COVID-19 crowd limits
PARIS (Reuters) - A French theme park has caused an outcry by staging a show attended by 9,000 people, skirting a legal limit on gatherings of over 5,000 imposed to help curb the spread of coronavirus...
Aug 17, 2020
Trump offers counter-programming to Democrats with rallies in four states
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With visits to four states scheduled, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to inject himself as often as possible this week into Democrats' carefully choreographed...
Aug 17, 2020
Democrats to open virtual convention with a show of unity for Biden
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats will kick off a four-day virtual convention on Monday with a display of party unity for U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden and the broad coalitio...
Aug 17, 2020
Explainer: How the coronavirus changed U.S. political conventions, perhaps forever
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being short-circuited by the coronavir...
Aug 17, 2020
Huawei CFO to push for release of classified documents in Canada court
By Moira Warburton (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers are set to attend hearings in a Canadian courtroom via telephone on Monday, arguing for the Cana...
Aug 17, 2020
As Democrats prepare to nominate Joe Biden, widespread fears about unfair election
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With less than 80 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, it looks like Joe Biden's race to lose. Yet, as Democrats nationwide gather online this wee...
Aug 17, 2020
As U.S. targets China tech, TikTok rival Bigo shifts servers from Hong Kong
By Chen Lin and Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - BIGO Technology, a smaller rival of embattled Chinese appmaker ByteDance, is shifting servers from Hong Kong to Singapore, out of the reach of ...
Aug 17, 2020
Hong Kong records 44 new coronavirus cases as social distancing restrictions extended
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong reported 44 new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government announced an extension to social distancing measures aimed at controlling further spreading of the virus, ...
Aug 17, 2020
Migrants return to Delhi as India’s COVID-19 deaths top 50,000
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Adnan Abidi MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's COVID-19 deaths topped 50,000 on Monday, five months after the country reported its first such fatality, as migrant workers ...
Aug 17, 2020
Philippines records 3,314 new coronavirus cases, 18 deaths
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has recorded 3,314 new coronavirus cases and 18 additional deaths from the disease, the health ministry said on Monday. The country has so far registered a total of ...
Aug 17, 2020
