Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Social media platform Reddit hit by outages in U.S.: Downdetector
(Reuters) - Social media company Reddit was experiencing problems on its website on Saturday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. Customers reported trouble logging in and sending...
Jan 30, 2021
UK reassured by EU it will not block vaccine supplies, says minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister said on Saturday the EU had reassured him the European Union did not want to disrupt supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to the United Kingdom after the bloc sa...
Jan 30, 2021
Family of journalist Pearl to appeal against freeing of men convicted of his murder
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The family of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2001, plans to appeal to Pakistan's Supreme Court to overtur...
Jan 30, 2021
Italy’s medicines agency approves AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, source says
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's AIFA has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, a source from the medicines regulator said. The vaccine, which received a gree...
Jan 30, 2021
Cuba to quarantine travelers amid COVID-19 surge
HAVANA (Reuters) - Most travelers entering Cuba as of Feb. 6 will be quarantined for up to a week, the government announced on Saturday, and flights from the United States and some other countries red...
Jan 30, 2021
Portugal close to running out of ICU beds for COVID patients
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal said on Saturday it only had seven vacant beds left in intensive care units (ICUs) set up for COVID-19 cases on its mainland, as a surge in infections prompted the authorit...
Jan 30, 2021
IG Group restricts trading on GameStop and AMC due to ‘extreme volatility’
(Reuters) - Online trading platform IG Group Holdings Plc said on Saturday it will restrict any new positions on GameStop Corp and AMC Entertainment due to "extreme volatility" in the market. "Due to ...
Jan 30, 2021
Bomb blast kills at least five people in northern Syrian town of Afrin
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, the Turkish defence ministry and local civil defenc...
Jan 30, 2021
Iran rejects new participants, any talks on nuclear deal
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday rejected any new negotiations or changes to the participants of Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, after French President Emmanuel Macron sa...
Jan 30, 2021
Putin’s former judo partner says he owns palace which opposition links to Russian leader
By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian businessman Arkady Rotenberg said on Saturday he owns a huge palace in southern Russia which jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has linked to President V...
Jan 30, 2021
