Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Biden to make personal plea to Democrats to unify and pass voting rights
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to rally Senate Democrats in a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to unite and alter the chamber's rules to pass voting-rights le...
Jan 13, 2022
England’s colourful deputy chief medical officer to step down
LONDON (Reuters) - England's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam, whose use of colourful metaphors and similes became a hallmark of the British government's COVID-19 news conferences, said o...
Jan 13, 2022
Fed’s ‘most important task’ is to control inflation, Brainard says
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Controlling inflation that has spiked to nearly a 40-year high is the "most important task" facing the Federal Reserve right now, Fed Governor...
Jan 13, 2022
Euro zone inflation not as transitory as thought: ECB’s de Guindos
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The euro zone's inflation spike is not as transitory as earlier thought but price growth is still likely to be under the European Central Bank's 2% target in 2023 and 2024, ECB V...
Jan 13, 2022
Israel’s Econergy plans renewable energy storage, solar PV capacity in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - Renewables investor Econergy Renewable Energy said on Thursday it plans to develop a portfolio of 800 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy storage and 900 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV...
Jan 13, 2022
With most Gaza homes wrecked by war still in ruins, smiles for the lucky few
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce fighting, was slowly being rebui...
Jan 13, 2022
EU court rejects cities’ bid to curb car emissions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court dismissed a complaint on Thursday brought by the cities of Brussels, Madrid and Paris against the European Commission in which they accused it of se...
Jan 13, 2022
Tennis-Djokovic ‘playing by his own rules’, says Tsitsipas
(Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic has been "playing by his own rules" and has put his bid for a 21st Grand Slam title at risk by not following Australia's COVID-19 vaccination requirements, ...
Jan 13, 2022
Bomb blast kills one in Syrian border city, wounds several
AMMAN (Reuters) - A car bomb in the rebel-held city of Azaz in northwest Syria killed one civilian on Thursday and wounded several bystanders, witnesses said, in the first act of its kind this year. A...
Jan 13, 2022
Hungary govt expects COVID-19 cases to surge, shortens quarantine period
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary expects a substantial further increase in COVID-19 cases over the coming weeks due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff...
Jan 13, 2022
