Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Colombia court suspends extradition of accused trafficker Otoniel
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's top administrative court on Friday suspended the extradition to the United States of accused drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Usaga, known as Otoniel, until legal action by ...
Apr 29, 2022
Man shot dead near West Bank settlement, Israeli medics say
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A man was fatally shot at the entrance to a settlement in the occupied West Bank late on Friday, Israeli medics said, in what the Israeli military described as an attack by "terr...
Apr 29, 2022
U.S. urges restoration of essential services in Ethiopia’s Tigray
(Reuters) - The United States wants the opposing sides involved in conflict in Ethiopia to advance a negotiated ceasefire and for essential services to be restored in the Tigray region, U.S. Secretary...
Apr 29, 2022
World’s first NFT museum in Seattle aims to ‘pull back the curtain’ on blockchain art
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent NFT art museum has opened in Seattle, aiming to "pull back the curtain" on blockchain-based digital art. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a type of digita...
Apr 29, 2022
Brazil’s Itau Unibanco buys stake in XP Inc for $1.6 billion
(Reuters) - Brazilian lender Itau Unibanco said on Friday it has acquired an 11.36% stake in brokerage XP Inc for around 8 billion reais ($1.61 billion). The deal does not change XP's governance and s...
Apr 29, 2022
FBI searches of data collected without a warrant nearly triples last year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI made nearly 3.4 million queries last year to a database of information collected without a warrant, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Friday, n...
Apr 29, 2022
Pfizer says COVID treatment Paxlovid fails to prevent infection of household members
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc on Friday said a large trial found that its COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid was not effective at preventing coronavirus infection in people living with someone who ha...
Apr 29, 2022
U.S. dollar net long bets rise, bitcoin posts largest net long since CME launch -CFTC, Reuters
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Speculators' net long positioning on the U.S. dollar rose in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading C...
Apr 29, 2022
Cuervo parent Becle expects supply problems to persist, CEO says
(Reuters) - Mexican distiller Becle, better known as the parent company of the popular Jose Cuervo tequila brand, expects to see more supply chain problems this year, the company's chief executive sai...
Apr 29, 2022
Northern New Mexico villagers prepare to flee as winds whip wildfire
By Andrew Hay MORA, N.M. (Reuters) - Thousands of people who live in mountain villages of northern New Mexico prepared to evacuate on Friday as gusting winds and drought conditions drove the largest w...
Apr 29, 2022
