Category Archives: (Fargo | KFGO | kfgo.com) World News
French coronavirus death toll close to 22,000: ministry
PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 516 to 21,856 on Thursday, the health ministry said in a statement. The 2.4% increase was slightly slo...
Apr 23, 2020
Dish announces deal with software maker Mavenir for its 5G network
By Arriana McLymore (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp, which vowed to build a 5G network by 2023 to take on the big three U.S. telecommunications giants, said on Thursday it is working with software compa...
Apr 23, 2020
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll edges up, but new cases fall
ROME (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 464 on Thursday, against 437 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, but the daily tally of new infections declined to ...
Apr 23, 2020
Payments fintech AvidXchange raises $128 million to add to funding
By David French NEW YORK (Reuters) - Business payments processing firm AvidXchange Inc, whose investors include Mastercard Inc and PayPal Holdings Inc co-founder Peter Thiel, said on Thursday it had a...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Don’t give up’, French virus survivor tells others fighting disease
By Clotaire Achi and Benoit Tessier STAINS, France (Reuters) - On April 5, 61-year-old Mang Phother felt his breathing getting worse and worse. Two days later he was rushed to a hospital in Paris' nor...
Apr 23, 2020
Bezos, Musk among billionaires gaining net worth in pandemic: report
(Reuters) - The combined wealth of America's billionaires, including Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10% during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, accordi...
Apr 23, 2020
Gay couple fights prejudice and coronavirus in Poland by distributing rainbow face masks
WARSAW (Reuters) - Married gay couple Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski say they face frequent abuse in Poland for being part of a so-called "homosexual plague." "So we thought that if we are dealing r...
Apr 23, 2020
Exclusive: France first – Paris ignores EU calls to lift export bans on COVID-19 drugs
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France has expanded its list of drugs that face export restrictions through the coronavirus crisis despite repeated calls from the European Union to lift cu...
Apr 23, 2020
Google to make verification mandatory for all advertisers
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday all advertisers would have to complete a verification process before buying ad space on its platform, starting this summer, in a bid to make its ad p...
Apr 23, 2020
Mexico, U.S. ‘need each other’ on migration, Lopez Obrador says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico and the United States depend on each other when it comes to migration, and it is important not to "paralyze" commercial activity between the two countries, Mexican Presi...
Apr 23, 2020
