Month: Mart 2020

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Veteran Indian tennis player Leander Paes is contemplating extending his career by another year to bid for an eighth Olympic appearance following the postponement of the Tokyo Games to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: Tennis – Australian Open – Mixed Doubles Second Round – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, January
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LONDON (Reuters) – New York extended its lead over London to head Z/Yen Group’s rankings of global financial centers on Thursday, with Tokyo leap-frogging Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai into third place. FILE PHOTO: The Wall St. Bull is seen standing on a nearly empty Broadway in the financial district, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
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FILE PHOTO: A woman sells protective face masks at a traffic light corner during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Santiago, Chile March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile has surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the outbreak began in the Andean nation, its health ministry said on Wednesday, among the highest
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NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centres and IT services firms that function as the world’s back office are struggling to piece together work-from-home solutions and other business-continuity plans. Police officers stop vehicles and check their papers on a highway during 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit
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FILE PHOTO: NFL Football – Super Bowl LIII – New England Patriots v Los Angeles Rams – Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. – February 3, 2019. Los Angeles Rams’ Ndamukong Suh during the warm up before the match. REUTERS/Mike Segar Five-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators will vote on Wednesday on a $2 trillion bipartisan package of legislation to alleviate the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, hoping it will become law quickly. FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives during negotiations on a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) relief package on Capitol in Washington,
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(Reuters) – The United States could become the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said, as the U.S. negotiators reached an agreement on a $2-trillion aid package and India announced a nationwide lockdown in the world’s second-most populous country. Commuters during rush hour in Central London, as the spread of the
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