Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Biden and Senator Sanders to highlight efforts lower cost of asthma inhalers
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will host a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to highlight their efforts to cut the cost of inhalers for asthma su...
Apr 03, 2024
Pope deplores deaths in Gaza and Ukraine from 'folly of war'
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, deploring the killing of aid workers in an Israeli airstrike and paying tribute to a Ukrainian s...
Apr 03, 2024
Cyprus seeks EU help to curb surge of Syrian refugees from Lebanon
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus appealed on Wednesday for vigorous action from the EU to stem a recent tide of mostly Syrian refugees arriving by sea via Lebanon, saying the island's reception capacity was...
Apr 03, 2024
China scraps mandates on down payments for personal car loans
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank on Wednesday unveiled revisions to car loans, scrapping mandates on the lowest down payments on loans granted to borrowers buying new cars for private use. Fin...
Apr 03, 2024
Uganda top court declines to block Anti-Homosexuality law but sees rights infringed
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday declined to nullify or suspend an Anti-Homosexuality law that prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but found it incons...
Apr 03, 2024
Analysis-With wary eye, China courts Indonesia's incoming leader Prabowo
By Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) - Soon after Indonesia's incoming leader Prabowo Subianto won the February presidential election, the Chinese embassy in Jakarta sent him a cat...
Apr 03, 2024
Georgia's ruling party says it's reintroducing draft law on 'foreign agents'
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's ruling party said on Wednesday that it was reintroducing a draft law regulating "foreign agents" that it withdrew in March last year after major protests. The Georgian Dr...
Apr 03, 2024
Russia presses for answers from West over Nord Stream blasts
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's general prosecutor's office has written to western countries, it said on Wednesday, asking them to respect international obligations to deliver justice as they investigate ...
Apr 03, 2024
UK's Virgin Atlantic says it's on course to return to profitability in 2024
LONDON (Reuters) - Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic said on Wednesday it would return to profitability this year after strong demand from holiday makers drove revenue up by 265 million pounds ($333 m...
Apr 03, 2024
India's 'Goldilocks' economy to prompt cenbank to keep rates on hold
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) - Strong economic growth and moderating inflation means India's central bank will have room to keep interest rates on hold at its review this week and likely until July,...
Apr 03, 2024
