Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Soccer-Brentford’s Toney handed eight-month ban by FA for breaching betting rules
(Reuters) -Brentford and England striker Ivan Toney has been banned from football for eight months and fined 50,000 pounds ($63,000) after admitting to 232 breaches of the Football Association's (FA) ...
May 17, 2023
House Speaker McCarthy says U.S. debt ceiling deal by Sunday is “doable”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday that a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling limit was "do-able" by Sunday, the day President Joe Biden said he intended on holding ...
May 17, 2023
Czechs cancel Soviet-era decrees giving Russian embassy free land
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government on Wednesday cancelled Soviet-era decrees that granted the Russian embassy free use of land in Prague and other cities, a further step in a more than two-year d...
May 17, 2023
Russian economy shrank 1.9% in first quarter – stats service
(Reuters) - Russia's economy shrank 1.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023, data from the Rosstat federal statistics service showed on Wednesday, following growth of 3% in the same period of l...
May 17, 2023
Russia’s consumer prices barely change for second week running
(Reuters) - Russia's weekly consumer prices rose marginally in the period to May 15, state statistics service Rosstat said on Wednesday, steadying in the two weeks since the Bank of Russia opted to ho...
May 17, 2023
Madrid’s rich could vote with their feet as wealth tax fuels electoral debate
By Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) - For serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, the outcome of elections in Spain this year will determine whether he stays in Madrid. The Argentine-born founder of five "u...
May 17, 2023
FedEx Express pilots vote in support of strike – ALPA union
(Reuters) - Pilots of FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp, have voted "overwhelmingly" in support of a strike, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said on Wednesday. From the 99% of members who par...
May 17, 2023
Biden says he and China’s Xi will meet, ‘whether it’s soon or not’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would speak with China's President Xi Jinping, but did not say when. "Whether it's soon or not, we will be meeting," Biden said in ...
May 17, 2023
Brazil’s ministers see room for rate cuts as central bank keeps cautious stance
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economic ministers on Wednesday highlighted the potential for monetary easing to kick off, while the central bank continued to signal caution due to concerns over expecta...
May 17, 2023
Swiss parliament to investigate Credit Suisse collapse
ZURICH (Reuters) -Credit Suisse's collapse and its takeover by UBS will be investigated by a parliamentary commission (PUK), the office of Switzerland's upper house of parliament said on Wednesday. Th...
May 17, 2023
