Zimbabwe finds more elephant carcasses, death toll at 22 - Reuters
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s wildlife agency said on Wednesday it had discovered more elephant carcasses near a major game park, bringing the number of dead animals suspected to have been killed by a bacterial infection to 22, double the initial figure.
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has already ruled out
Van Aert sprints to victory in Tour de France stage five - Reuters India
Intel releases new laptop chips to confront Apple, rising rivals - Reuters
(Reuters) - Intel Corp ( INTC.O ) on Wednesday unveiled “Tiger Lake,” the 11th generation version of its flagship chip for laptops that it hopes will help it regain lost market share and counter forthcoming Apple Inc
Intel launches 11th generation laptop chips - Reuters
Sept 2 (Reuters) - Intel Corp on Wednesday unveiled ‘Tiger Lake’, the 11th generation version of its flagship chip for laptops. (Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
Exclusive: Aspiring TikTok buyers pursue four options in effort to revive talks - Reuters
(Reuters) - TikTok’s prospective buyers are discussing four ways to structure an acquisition from its Chinese owner ByteDance, which include buying the app’s U.S. operations without key software, after Beijing stalled a deal which could be worth $30 billion, sources said.
Trump travels to politically key North Carolina to commemorate end of World War Two - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of World War Two on Wednesday with a visit to a retired battleship in North Carolina, a political battleground state he hopes to win in the Nov.
UK records 1,508 daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 1,508 daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to government data published on Wednesday, up from 1,295 a day earlier.
Ten people died within
Bad weather, COVID-19 leave over 2.6 million Malawians short of food - Reuters
BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi said on Wednesday that weather-related hazards coupled with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would leave 15% of the population in need of food aid this season.
The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee, a grouping of government, food experts and aid agencies, found that over 2.6 million people in the southern African country of 17.7 million would not be able to meet their food requirements during the 2020/21 consumption season.
Impoverished Malawi
United Airlines to cut 16,370 workers, many more going without pay - Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines ( UAL.O ) is preparing to furlough 16,370 workers when federal aid expires on Oct. 1 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the airline industry, it said on Wednesday.
Chicago-based United had over 90,000 employees before the pandemic
NY Fed's Williams says monetary policy under new framework will depend on circumstances - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials will have some flexibility when setting monetary policy under the new framework, New York Fed Bank President John Williams said on Wednesday.
Williams echoed remarks from some of his colleagues over the past week that policy will not be based on an exact formula.
“How it translates into actual monetary policy depends on the circumstances,” Williams said while answering questions from former New York Fed president Bill Dudley. Williams added that the Fed is not focused on any specific rate of unemployment but looking