Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. residents to get $3.2 billion to lower home energy costs
By Nandita Bose and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will make available nearly $3.2 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law to help Americans lower home energy c...
Mar 30, 2022
WHO says most likely scenario shows COVID severity will decrease over time
(Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Wednesday released an updated plan for COVID-19, laying out three possible scenarios for how the pandemic will evolve this year. "Based on what we know now,...
Mar 30, 2022
California task force votes to limit eligibility for any slavery reparations
(Reuters) - A California task force on reparations recommends limiting any government payments to Black people whose ancestors were in the United States in the 19th century, rather than giving money t...
Mar 30, 2022
Peace deal “at gunpoint” will not end EU’s Russian sanctions – Rutte
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine will have to respect the territory and sovereignty of Ukraine in order to ease European sanctions against Moscow, Dutch Prime Minister Mar...
Mar 30, 2022
Sanctioned Russian bank VTB sees strong demand for gold bars
(Reuters) - Russia's second-largest lender VTB, hit by Western sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine, has sold one tonne of gold to customers this month and expects demand to increase, the state-...
Mar 30, 2022
Local mayor says 80 civilians killed in Ukraine’s Mykolayiv since start of war
(Reuters) - About 80 civilians have been killed and around 450 wounded in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv since Russia invaded Ukraine, the local mayor said on Wednesday. Mayor Oleksandr Senk...
Mar 30, 2022
Pakistan cricket star Imran Khan in danger of dropping the ball as PM
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a main coalition partner on Wednesday after a series of similar departures ahead of a no-confidence vote expected in the next few days. The defecti...
Mar 30, 2022
EMA starts review of Sanofi-GSK COVID vaccine application
(Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator has started reviewing Sanofi and its British partner GlaxoSmithKline's application seeking conditional authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine, the age...
Mar 30, 2022
Russia to keep gas contract prices unchanged in rouble switch, sources says
(Reuters) - Russia plans to keep a contract price for gas exports to "unfriendly" countries unchanged but the payment should be done in the rouble equivalent on a pre-agreed settlement day, as one of ...
Mar 30, 2022
Swiss Re shareholders urged to oppose chairman’s re-election in gender row -FT
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss Re shareholders have been urged to vote against the re-election of Chairman Sergio Ermotti at the reinsurance company's upcoming annual general meeting, The Financial Times re...
Mar 30, 2022
