Author Archives: Syndicated Content
McDonald’s to exit Russia after 30 years
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Monday it had initiated a process to sell its business in Russia after 30 years of operating its restaurants in the country, following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine....
May 16, 2022
Lacking vaccines, N.Korea battles COVID with antibiotics, home remedies
By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a COVID-19 outbreak that - in...
May 16, 2022
Powell’s Fed getting more diverse, but big gaps remain
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - The Senate's sign-off last week on Jerome Powell's second term as head of the Federal Reserve leaves the helm of the U.S. central bank in the hands of a white male, just as i...
May 16, 2022
Trump-era special prosecutor takes ex-Clinton campaign lawyer to trial
By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawyer who worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign faces a criminal trial this week on charges of lying to the FBI in a crucial ...
May 16, 2022
Facing raft of Trump-inspired new voter limits, Democrats gird for legal battles
By Nathan Layne and Kia Johnson CUMMING, Ga. (Reuters) - When a Forsyth County, Georgia, man last week challenged the eligibility of 13,000 voters, a power that a new state law gives individual citize...
May 16, 2022
Tokyo COVID curbs declared illegal in “Kill Bill” restaurant case
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's "Kill Bill" restaurant operator prevailed in a court case on Monday that declared Tokyo's now defunct COVID-19 infection curbs were illegal. The orders, enacte...
May 16, 2022
Iran respects Lebanese people’s decision in parliamentary vote – official
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it respected the votes cast by people in Lebanon's parliamentary election, where unofficial results showed some of Tehran-backed Hezbollah's oldest allies sufferi...
May 16, 2022
Motor racing-F1’s jewellery ban is for right reasons, says GPDA’s Wurz
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One is right to ban jewellery from the cockpit but the governing FIA could have enforced the rule in a less confrontational way, according to Grand Prix Driv...
May 16, 2022
Sempra Energy strikes LNG supply deal with Polish Oil & Gas
(Reuters) - Sempra Energy said on Monday it would sell three million tonnes of liquefied natural gas each year to Polish Oil & Gas Co , in another sign of rising interest in U.S. supplies following Ru...
May 16, 2022
Ukraine says it has repelled Russian incursion in Sumy region
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian border guards repelled an incursion by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the northeastern region of Sumy on Monday, the governor of the Sumy region said. Dmytro...
May 16, 2022
