Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Boxing-Beterbiev set to fight as Canadian after Russian ban, says WBC boss
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Light-heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev is set to fight as a Canadian after boxing bodies barred Russians following the invasion of Ukraine, WBC president M...
Apr 20, 2022
Apple store workers in Atlanta file for first union election – Bloomberg Law
(Reuters) -Workers at an Apple Inc store in Atlanta plan to become the first in the United States to file for a union election, Bloomberg Law reported on Wednesday. The proposed union would include 10...
Apr 20, 2022
Airbus defeats appeal by ‘Right Stuff’ pilot Chuck Yeager’s estate
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Airbus on Wednesday defeated an appeal by the estate of Chuck Yeager, the U.S. Air Force pilot who broke the sound barrier, accusing the aerospace company of using his ...
Apr 20, 2022
U.S. firms beset by worker shortages and high inflation, Fed survey shows
(Reuters) - The U.S. economy expanded at a moderate pace from February through early April and there was little respite for businesses from high inflation and worker shortages, a Federal Reserve repor...
Apr 20, 2022
Greece to raise minimum wage from May 1 to boost low incomes- PM
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will raise the minimum wage from May 1 for a second time this year, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday as rising inflation takes a toll on household incomes...
Apr 20, 2022
New U.S. sanctions target Russian bank, oligarchs, crypto miner BitRiver
By Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities, including a Russian commercial bank and a virtual cur...
Apr 20, 2022
Mariupol evacuation corridor did not work as planned -Ukraine’s deputy PM
(Reuters) - Ukraine's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday that an agreed humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol had not worked as planned, blaming Rus...
Apr 20, 2022
Yellen, BoE’s Bailey, Canada’s Freeland walk out of G20 meeting as Russians speak
By Andrea Shalal, David Milliken and David Lawder WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Top finance officials from Britain, the United States and Canada walked out of Wednesday's G20 meeting as Russian represe...
Apr 20, 2022
Rapper A$AP Rocky taken into custody in LA in connection to shooting
(Reuters) - U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky was taken into custody in connection to a November 2021 shooting as he arrived from Barbados at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, NBC News reported...
Apr 20, 2022
Israeli police stop Jewish nationalist march in Jerusalem amid rising tensions
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of far-right Jewish protesters from marching toward Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City's Muslim quarter, am...
Apr 20, 2022
