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Exclusive: ValueAct eyes Nintendo with stake of over $1.1 billion – letter
BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor ValueAct Capital Partners LP has built a stake of over $1.1 billion in Nintendo , according to a letter seen by Reuters, a bet that digital software distribution a...
Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus preys on inequalities in working class Paris suburb
By Clotaire Achi and John Irish STAINS, France (Reuters) - Resuscitation nurse Aline Lheureux feared there would be trouble in the impoverished Paris suburb where she works when she heard youngsters p...
Apr 21, 2020
Ireland to ban gatherings of more than 5,000 until end of August
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Tuesday banned large-scale public events until the end of August at the earliest in a bid to rein in the coronavirus outbreak. The decision to ban gatherings of more 5,00...
Apr 21, 2020
Exclusive: Venezuela Socialists, opposition leaders begin secret talks amid pandemic – sources
By Corina Pons and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) - Allies of both Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his bitter foe, opposition leader Juan Guaido, have secretly begun exploratory talks as conce...
Apr 21, 2020
Moscow opens coronavirus hospital it built in one month as cases jump
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - A new Moscow hospital built in just over a month began admitting patients infected with the new coronavirus on Tuesday to help the Russian capital cope w...
Apr 21, 2020
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll climbs, new cases also up
ROME (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 534 on Tuesday, up from 454 the day before and the largest daily tally since Friday, the Civil Protection Agency said. The number...
Apr 21, 2020
Speculative bet or inflation hedge? Bitcoin in the coronavirus crisis
By Tom Wilson and Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin has fared better than stocks but worse than gold and U.S. Treasuries during the coronavirus pandemic, with investors ascribing its performa...
Apr 21, 2020
Bluetooth phone apps for tracking COVID-19 show modest early results
By Aradhana Aravindan and Sankalp Phartiyal SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with...
Apr 21, 2020
UK made a firm decision on Huawei in 5G: foreign ministry’s top official
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government made a firm decision to allow China's Huawei to have a role in building the country's 5G phone network and as far as the foreign ministry's top official underst...
Apr 21, 2020
Mexico has entered most serious ‘Phase 3’ spread of coronavirus epidemic: health ministry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has entered its most serious stage in the spread of the coronavirus, which the government calls "Phase 3", as the spread of the virus is intensifying, Deputy Health Mini...
Apr 21, 2020
