Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Italy’s sewers will give early alert for future COVID spikes
By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) - Italy will use the nation's sewage to predict future coronavirus spreads and to alert authorities to rising cases and new variants before they appear in testing and ...
Jan 14, 2022
Biden taps Raskin, Cook and Jefferson for Fed Board
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated former Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the central bank's vice chair for supervision and two Black economists, Lis...
Jan 14, 2022
Omicron has 1/3 reduced risk of hospitalisation compared to Delta – UK researchers
LONDON (Reuters) - There is a one third reduction in the risk of going into hospital associated with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 compared with Delta, researchers at Imperial College London said in...
Jan 14, 2022
UAE-backed forces enter central Yemen fray as UN warns of military escalation
By Mohammed Ghobari ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have joined coalition troops fighting the Houthi movement around the central city of Marib in a renewed push to se...
Jan 14, 2022
In Cuba’s poorest neighborhoods, youths could face decades in jail after protests
By Marc Frank and Mario Fuentes LA GUINERA, Cuba (Reuters) - Young Cuban protesters from Havana's poorest neighborhoods face decades behind bars at upcoming trials, relatives and rights groups said, a...
Jan 14, 2022
Waymo, J.B. Hunt expand tie-up to commercialize autonomous trucking technology
(Reuters) - U.S. truck fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services and Alphabet Inc's self-driving unit Waymo are expanding their alliance to deploy fully autonomous trucking operations in Texas in th...
Jan 14, 2022
Workers confined in campervans at Spanish water plant to guarantee operations
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Fourteen employees of a Barcelona water-treatment facility are living in campervans parked outside the plant to avoid COVID-19 contagion and ensure operations continue as soaring...
Jan 14, 2022
We’re still a way from equality, says Germany’s first LGBTQ+ commissioner
By Fanny Brodersen BERLIN (Reuters) - As Germany's first ever LGBTQ+ commissioner, a role created under the new coalition government's plans for cultural modernisation, Sven Lehmann believes he has hi...
Jan 14, 2022
U.S. import prices fall in December on petroleum products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. import prices unexpectedly fell in December amid a decline in the cost of petroleum products, adding to signs that the worst of high inflation was probably over. Import pri...
Jan 14, 2022
Office Depot parent delays spin-off after new offer for consumer business
(Reuters) - ODP Corp said on Friday it had decided to delay its previously announced plans to split into two public companies to mull over sale offers for its consumer business, sending its shares up ...
Jan 14, 2022
