Author Archives: Syndicated Content
In South Korea, free subway rides for the elderly become a political headache
By Hyonhee Shin and Hyeyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Every day, 71-year-old Park Gyung-sun delivers flowers, documents and other packages around Seoul - a job popular among senior citizens who are entitl...
Feb 15, 2023
Founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite meme stock frenzy, sues Reddit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - The founder of WallStreetBets, which has been credited with helping ignite investors' frenzy into "meme" stocks, sued Reddit Inc on Wednesday, accusing it of wrongly ba...
Feb 15, 2023
U.S. Congress members seek halt to $1 billion Nigeria weapons deal
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to rescind a nearly $1 billion arms sa...
Feb 15, 2023
ECB 50-basis-point hike in March a done deal, May and June undecided: Reuters poll
By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will raise its deposit rate at least twice more, taking the terminal rate to 3.25% in the second quarter, with a vast majority of economi...
Feb 15, 2023
FBI searched University of Delaware in Biden documents probe -CNN
(Reuters) - The FBI carried out two searches at the University of Delaware in recent weeks in relation to a probe into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, CNN reported on Wednesday...
Feb 15, 2023
Australian zinc mine rescue team finds vehicle of missing workers
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian mining services provider Perenti Ltd said on Thursday that a rescue team had located the vehicle used by two company employees, who went missing after falling down a hole...
Feb 15, 2023
Australia employment falls for second month, jobless at 8-mth high
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia employment surprised in January by falling for a second straight month while the jobless rate jumped to its highest since last May, a soft result that could ...
Feb 15, 2023
Nicaragua strips 94 citizens of their nationality
MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's government has stripped 94 citizens of their nationality, according to a resolution read by Judge Gerardo Rodriguez on Wednesday. The order affects Nicaraguans living a...
Feb 15, 2023
Japan logs record merchandise trade deficit in Jan as export growth slows
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Growth in Japan's merchandise exports slowed sharply in January amid weakening Chinese demand for cars and chipmaking machinery, stoking concern about a global s...
Feb 15, 2023
Britain’s NICE to speed up reviews of COVID-19 treatments
By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's agency that determines if medicines should be used in the National Health Service (NHS) said on Thursday it is speeding up how it decides if COVID-19 therap...
Feb 15, 2023
