BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe’s privacy rulebook does not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic but mass tracking of people’s movements and contacts using smartphone location data would represent a clear violation. FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a face mask checks her phone outside the Teatro alla Scala, closed by authorities due
Month: March 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Margaret Bordelon can still feel the hands of the drunk man who tried to pull her in for a kiss at the end of his Uber ride last September in Lafayette, Louisiana. Margaret Bordelon, a driver for Uber, looks out her car window at the location where a passenger sexually harassed her after
(Reuters) – Six U.S. states will hold contests on Tuesday in the race to select the Democratic presidential nominee to take on Republican President Donald Trump in November’s election. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden brush hands as they have an exchange in the tenth
(Reuters) – Lawyers for former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted last month of rape and sexual assault, have asked a New York court to take into consideration his health and age and sentence him to prison for five years. FILE PHOTO: Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at the New York Criminal Court during
(Reuters) – Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus: FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will modify the environmental supervision of companies to help the resumption of production disrupted by the coronavirus epidemic, giving firms more time to rectify environmental problems, but stressed it was not relaxing standards. FILE PHOTO: Smoke is seen from a chimney in Altay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China January 24, 2018.
ROME (Reuters) – All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners made clear on Monday how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach into all aspects of social and economic life. Police officers wearing protective masks make checks on people at Milan’s main train station following a government decree that has
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he will be taking “major” steps to gird the economy against the impact of a spreading coronavirus outbreak and will discuss a payroll tax cut with congressional Republicans on Tuesday. “We’ll be discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief, substantial relief, very substantial relief,
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the government’s coronavirus task force, speaks during a press conference at the Pierce County Readiness Center at Camp Murray near Tacoma, Washington, U.S. March 5, 2020. REUTERS/David Ryder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will meet on Tuesday with top executives of large health
(Reuters) – Led Zeppelin on Monday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reinstate a jury verdict that it did not steal the opening guitar riff for “Stairway to Heaven” from an obscure song written four years earlier. FILE PHOTO: Lead singer Robert Plant (L) and guitarist Jimmy Page of the British rock band Led Zeppelin
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) on Monday reached an agreement with Elliott Management that lets Jack Dorsey stay as chief executive and adds three new directors a few days after Elliott’s plan to push out the social media company’s chief became public. Elliott’s head of U.S. activism, Jesse Cohn, and private equity firm Silver Lake’s
AIGLE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Cancelling the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France would be a disaster for cycling, says UCI president David Lappartient whose sport has already been badly hit by the coronavirus crisis. Several races, including the Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo, have been called off as Italy deals with rapidly escalating numbers of infections
Cyprus Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou attends a press conference following the first two confirmed coronavirus cases in Nicosia, Cyprus March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou ATHENS (Reuters) – Cyprus on Monday reported its first two confirmed cases of coronavirus, including a public health professional who had contact with medical patients before he reported his symptoms to
FILE PHOTO: Swedish actor Max Von Sydow looks on during the 2015 Lumiere Grand Lyon film festival in Lyon, France, October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Pratta PARIS (Reuters) – Max von Sydow, the Swedish actor whose career spanned arthouse dramas, horror movies and Hollywood blockbusters, has died in France aged 90, Agence France Presse reported on
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco (2222.SE) shares fell by as much as 10% on Monday, extending a dive below the initial public offering price, after Saudi Arabia cut its official selling prices for crude and global oil markets plunged in response to news of a big output increase. FILE PHOTO: Saudi Aramco logo is pictured
FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Apple sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday, as the coronavirus outbreak crippled
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