Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Treasury’s Yellen, ECB’s Lagarde express disapproval to Russian official at G20 meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde expressed their displeasure at the in-person participation of a top Russian official i...
Apr 20, 2022
Carrefour upbeat on turnaround after Brazil bolsters sales
PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour said on Wednesday it was confident it would achieve the strategic goals set under its turnaround plan after its sales growth accelerated in the first quarter, thanks notabl...
Apr 20, 2022
Italy reports 99,848 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, 205 deaths
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 99,848 COVID-19 related cases on Wednesday, against 27,214 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of deaths rose to 205 from 127. Italy has r...
Apr 20, 2022
Activision beats shareholder class action over sex bias claims, for now
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc has won the dismissal of a lawsuit in California accusing the video game maker of misleading investors by downplaying the severity of alleged sex...
Apr 20, 2022
Russia may spend $1.3 billion from wealth fund to recapitalise Aeroflot – Ifax
(Reuters) - Russia is considering spending around 107 billion roubles ($1.34 billion) from its National Wealth Fund (NWF) to recapitalise flagship airline Aeroflot, the Interfax news agency reported o...
Apr 20, 2022
Russia says talks with Ukraine hinge on Kyiv’s readiness to take into account Moscow’s demands
(Reuters) - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in a phone call on Wednesday that the outcome of talks with Ukraine completely depended on Kyiv's readi...
Apr 20, 2022
Anders who? WHO has no job for Swedish health agency chief
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Anders Tegnell, the architect of Sweden's light-touch COVID response, will not be joining the World Health Organization despite stepping down as Sweden's chief epidemiologist ear...
Apr 20, 2022
German, Baltic foreign ministers condemn arrest of Russian rights activists
BERLIN (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Germany and the Baltic states said they strongly condemned the arrest and sentencing of Russian human rights activists and called on Russia to release them ...
Apr 20, 2022
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion – a micronova
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burne...
Apr 20, 2022
Images of Sudan’s Bashir in hospital draw anger on social media
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Many Sudanese social media users have reacted angrily to a video that emerged of deposed President Omar al-Bashir walking around a hospital ward where he was moved on the grounds ...
Apr 20, 2022
