Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UN body votes to establish human rights investigator for Russia
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights body comfortably passed a motion on Friday to appoint a new independent expert on alleged human rights abuses in Russia, accusing Moscow of creating a "climate o...
Oct 07, 2022
India’s RBI to soon commence pilot project of digital rupee
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Indian central bank will soon commence limited pilot launches of a central bank backed digital rupee for specific use cases, it said in a concept paper released on Friday. The R...
Oct 07, 2022
Algeria reports H5N1 bird flu outbreak on farm
PARIS (Reuters) - Algeria has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in the northern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)...
Oct 07, 2022
Risk-averse investors pile into cash at fastest rate since April 2020
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors piled into cash at the fastest weekly rate since April 2020 in the week to Wednesday, as soaring government borrowing costs, high energy prices and slowing growth fanned r...
Oct 07, 2022
England’s heatwaves see highest ever excess deaths among elderly
LONDON (Reuters) - England saw the highest excess mortality figure from heatwaves this year since records began in 2004, health officials said on Friday, after a hot summer that saw temperatures rise ...
Oct 07, 2022
Safaricom surges after securing Ethiopia mobile financial services licence
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Shares of Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom surged more than 9% on Friday after it secured a mobile financial services licence in Ethiopia, market participants said. Ethiopia's Fi...
Oct 07, 2022
Factbox-Memorial: Chronicler of Soviet and recent crimes, banned by Putin
LONDON (Reuters) - The banned Russian human rights organisation Memorial was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday alongside the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Belarusian human ri...
Oct 07, 2022
EU says Shopify to improve platform to make online shopping safer
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday e-commerce business Shopify has committed to put in place improvements aimed at making online shopping safer for customers, according to a s...
Oct 07, 2022
Marketmind: A ‘bad news is good news’ kind of day?
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. This week a lot of "bad news is good news" (or vice versa) talk has been banded around markets -- and with good reason. Think ...
Oct 07, 2022
Former S. African president Zuma released from Correctional Services system
(Reuters) - Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been released from the system of Correctional Services, the government department said on Friday. Zuma, whose 15 months sentence expired on Oc...
Oct 07, 2022
