Month: March 2020

FILE PHOTO: Elton John attends the 28th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party, holding the Oscar for Best Original Song for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman”, which he won with Bernie Taupin at the 92nd Academy Awards, in West Hollywood, California, U.S. February 9, 2020. REUTERS/David McNew/File Photo LOS ANGELES
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FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 – Australian Grand Prix – Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia – March 12, 2020 McLaren’s Lando Norris arriving to the circuit REUTERS/Loren Elliott LONDON (Reuters) – McLaren Formula One driver Lando Norris will have to shave his head after raising more than $10,000 from esports racing in the fight
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FILE PHOTO: President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Raphael W. Bostic speaks at a European Financial Forum event in Dublin, Ireland February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo (Reuters) – As U.S. officials role out trillions of dollars in new economic support, a Federal Reserve policymaker on Monday said focus
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FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news conference inside 10 Downing Street, London, Britain March 19, 2020. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “full of vigour” on Monday morning at a cabinet meeting he chaired remotely while in self-isolation after
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KABUL/ ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – An earthquake shook some buildings in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, witnesses said. The magnitude 4.9 quake was centered in the mountainous Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, at a depth of 211 km (130 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Reporting by
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections, after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pioneered by Singapore can be effective without invading people’s privacy. Germans are deeply suspicious of digital surveillance, and the use of individual smartphone location data to track the
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Ukrainian lawmakers, wearing protective masks, walk out of a building after an emergency session of parliament in Kiev, Ukraine March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament on Monday failed to gather enough votes to approve the appointment of a new finance minister or approve an emergency budget in response to the coronavirus
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FILE PHOTO – Contractors, members of 1 Royal Anglian Regiment and members of the Queen’s Gurkha Engineer Regiment help to build the new NHS Nightingale Hospital to fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, March 27, 2020. Andrew Parsons/UK Ministry of Defence/Crown copyright 2013/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Britain
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, who excoriated General Motors Co on Friday and invoked emergency powers to compel the production of badly needed ventilators to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, has abruptly shifted gears to praise the automaker. U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with supply chain distributors in the Cabinet Room of
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