Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Exclusive: OPEC+ needs to fix daily oversupply of more than two million barrels, document shows
By Vladimir Soldatkin, Rania El Gamal and Ahmad Ghaddar MOSCOW/DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Some members of the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations would need to slash output by an extra 2.31 million bar...
Aug 20, 2020
Belarus launches criminal case against new opposition body
By Andrey Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus launched a criminal case on Thursday against a new opposition body, accusing it of an illegal attempt to seize power, a day after President Alexander Luka...
Aug 20, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims back over one million
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing a new claim for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly back above the 1 million mark last week, a setback for a struggling U.S. job market crippled by the c...
Aug 20, 2020
Airbnb bans parties at sites listed on its platform in COVID-19 fight
(Reuters) - Short-term home rental company Airbnb Inc on Thursday imposed an indefinite global ban on all parties and events at places listed on its platform as it tries to enforce social-distancing n...
Aug 20, 2020
American Airlines will suspend flights to 15 U.S. cities amid aid debate
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Airlines Group Inc said Thursday it plans to suspend flights to 15 U.S. airports in October as travel demand remains low as a result of the coronavi...
Aug 20, 2020
Ballot drop boxes are latest battleground in U.S. election fight
By Andy Sullivan and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Welcome to the latest partisan flash point in the U.S. presidential election: the ballot drop box. As U.S. election officials gird for a dramatic expan...
Aug 20, 2020
Top lithium producer SQM posts record sales, profits plagued by low prices
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean miner SQM achieved record second-quarter sales even as low prices ravaged profits, the world's No. 2 producer of the metal used in electric car batteries said on Wednesday...
Aug 20, 2020
Wall Street futures extend slide on Fed jitters, jobless claims awaited
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday as investors cautiously awaited the weekly jobless claims report, a day after the Federal Reserve signaled an arduous recovery for ...
Aug 20, 2020
Haiti’s schools re-open but many parents now can’t afford them
By Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's school children missed class this year first due to months of violent unrest, then the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as schools are fin...
Aug 20, 2020
After decades in politics, Joe Biden to accept Democratic presidential nomination
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the biggest speech of his nearly 50 years in public life, Joe Biden will spell out his vision for the presidency on Thursday when he accepts the Democratic...
Aug 20, 2020
