Author Archives: Syndicated Content
White House denies ‘split’ strategy for COVID-19 relief legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday denied a media report that it could split President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal into two bills, as part of a strategy to get t...
Jan 28, 2021
Colombia stops domestic flights to and from Leticia over COVID-19 strain concerns
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Domestic passenger flights to and from Leticia, the capital of Colombia's Amazonas province, will be suspended for a period of two weeks over concerns about a new coronavirus strain...
Jan 28, 2021
Pirates who kidnapped Turks make contact to talk ransom: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pirates who kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish-crewed container ship in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday have made their first contact with the shipping company to discuss a ransom...
Jan 28, 2021
Protesting Indian farmers locked in stand-off with police near capital
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Saurabh Sharma GHAZIABAD, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms and refusing to disperse were locked in a stand-off with riot poli...
Jan 28, 2021
Between burn-out and pride, Berlin hospital staff grapple with COVID
(Reuters) - Their emotions alternating between burn-out and pride, nursing staff at Berlin's Havelhoehe hospital are knuckling down for another shift as, almost a year after COVID first struck, the se...
Jan 28, 2021
Russian police searching Navalny ally’s flat treated to Beethoven piano recital
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators searching the Moscow flat of an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were given an unusual welcome late on Wednesday - a spirited Beet...
Jan 28, 2021
Lowe’s to hire over 50,000 workers, pay $80 million in bonuses
(Reuters) - Lowe's Cos Inc said on Thursday it would pay employees about $80 million in additional discretionary bonuses and also plans to hire more than 50,000 workers across its U.S. stores in the s...
Jan 28, 2021
German inflation roars back and hits 11-month high in Jan
BERLIN (Reuters) - German annual consumer prices turned positive and rose by far more than expected in January, the Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday, attributing a rise in sales tax and the ...
Jan 28, 2021
Iran says U.S., not Tehran, should act first to resolve nuclear deal row
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States should act first by returning to world powers' 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that it ditched in 2018, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted on Thursda...
Jan 28, 2021
Facebook oversight board overrules company on most cases in first test
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Deciding its first cases, Facebook Inc's oversight board ruled on Thursday that the social media company was wrong to remove four of five pieces of content the board...
Jan 28, 2021
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