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Scotland announces first coronavirus death
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland has had its first death of a patient with coronavirus, an elderly patient with underlying health conditions, Scotland's chief medical officer said on Friday. "The patient, ...
Mar 13, 2020
Activist fund Elliott backs SoftBank’s $4.8 billion buyback plan
(Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott Management said on Friday it supports SoftBank Group Corp's latest move to buy back up to $4.8 billion of its shares. Elliott also said SoftBank would have opport...
Mar 13, 2020
Apple shifts annual developers conference to online-only format
(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Friday called off the in-person portion of its annual developers conference scheduled to be held in San Jose and said it would run the program entirely online in June because ...
Mar 13, 2020
GrubHub suspends commissions from virus-hit U.S. restaurants
(Reuters) - GrubHub Inc said on Friday it would temporarily suspend collection of up to $100 million in commissions from independent U.S. restaurants hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The company said ...
Mar 13, 2020
Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests negative for coronavirus – president’s Facebook page
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tested negative for coronavirus, according to a post on his Facebook page on Friday. Bolsonaro had been tested after his communications secreta...
Mar 13, 2020
Coronavirus test results for Bolsonaro’s U.S. delegation not yet ready, his son says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Results of the coronavirus test for the delegation that traveled with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the United States are not yet ready, his son Eduardo Bolsonaro said on...
Mar 13, 2020
China’s ZTE subject to new U.S. bribery investigation, NBC News says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese telecoms company ZTE is the subject of a new bribery investigation at the U.S. Justice Department, centered on suspected bribes paid to foreign officials to gain advanta...
Mar 13, 2020
Taiwan school uses dividers during lunch to counter coronavirus
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A school in Taiwan's capital Taipei is going to unusual lengths to protect its students from the coronavirus - putting up bright yellow dividers on their desks during lunch to reduc...
Mar 13, 2020
Bitcoin surges a fifth as markets rebound, still down a quarter since Monday
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin surged by more than a fifth on Friday amid high volatility across rebounding global markets, reversing some of its heavy losses from a day earlier but still leaving the cryp...
Mar 13, 2020
First woman in space brought down to earth by anger over bid to prolong Putin rule
By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - Valentina Tereshkova was hailed as a hero when she became the first woman in space in 1963. Now 83, she has became a hate figure for some Russians after this week p...
Mar 13, 2020
