Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Walmart can’t beat fine over warehouse worker injury
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Walmart Inc must pay about $11,000 in fines for failing to prevent heavy boxes from falling 40 feet and seriously injuring an employee at a New York warehouse, the U.S. ...
Feb 24, 2023
El Salvador begins transfers to ‘mega prison’ amid gang crackdown
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened "mega prison" on Friday, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has ca...
Feb 24, 2023
Earthquake death toll surpasses 50,000 in Turkey and Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that struck on Feb. 6 surpassed 50,000 on Friday after Turkey declared more than 44,000 people died. The Disaster and Emergen...
Feb 24, 2023
"Wrongly convicted" man released from prison in Coldwater after 21 years behind bars
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Kalamazoo man who the State of Michigan now says was wrongly convicted of a double murder 21 years ago was released from the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Cold...
Feb 24, 2023
Tennis-Murray saves five match points to reach Doha final
(Reuters) -Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray said the 'Law of Averages' had finally swung in his favour after he saved five match points to defeat Jiri Lehecka at the Qatar Open on Friday and...
Feb 24, 2023
Fed’s Mester says hot inflation data affirms case for more rate hikes
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland leader Loretta Mester said Friday she wasn't surprised by the latest round of strong U.S. inflation data, which she saw as an...
Feb 24, 2023
Sept. 11 families cannot halt U.S. decision on Afghan central bank asset seizure
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a request by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not to enforce his decision against letting them seize $3.5 bil...
Feb 24, 2023
Outside UN office, diplomats pay tribute to Ukraine on invasion anniversary
By Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) - At a sombre ceremony outside the United Nations office in Geneva on Friday, ambassadors from countries allied with Ukraine observed a minute of silence and voice...
Feb 24, 2023
Air strike hits northwest Syria, kills 2 in first aerial bombardment since earthquake
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least two people were killed in an air strike on a motorcycle in the rebel-held zone of northwest Syria on Friday, the local civil defense said, in the first aerial bombing on th...
Feb 24, 2023
In Ukraine’s Bucha where civilians slain, neighbours united in grief
By Anna Voitenko and Yurii Muraviov BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) - In Bucha, the town synonymous with Russian brutality during the war in Ukraine, two neighbours whose loved ones were killed in different ...
Feb 24, 2023
