Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ukraine lawmaker says prosecutor seeks arrest of former president Poroshenko
KYIV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office has asked a court to arrest former president Petro Poroshenko on suspicion of high treason and financing pro-Russian separatists, a lawmaker ...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
NFL-Washington’s Everett injured in car accident, passenger dead
(Reuters) - Washington Football Team safety Deshazor Everett was involved in a road accident on Thursday that left a passenger dead, the National Football League (NFL) club said. The 29-year-old was t...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew diagnosed with COVID-19
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide and based in Istanbul, has tested positive for COVID-19, the Patriarchate pr...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
UK reports new record of 122,186 COVID cases
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported a new record 122,186 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, up from 119,789 on Thursday. Government data showed there were 137 new deaths within 28 days of a positive COV...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Canada says no potato wart found, could pave way for US exports to resume
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has found no more evidence of a fungus in fresh potatoes, which could allow exports to the United States from the province of Prince Edward Island to resume, the Canadian Foo...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Russia says Molotov cocktail thrown at consulate in Ukraine, protests to Ukraine authorities
MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) - The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that someone had thrown a Molotov cocktail at the Russian consulate in Ukraine's Lviv and that it had formally protested over the at...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Turkish banks hiked rates in race for lira deposits -sources
By Ebru Tuncay and Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish banks reacted to the government's new lira-defence scheme by jacking up loan rates in a race to attract lira deposits, in what could be a...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Bus or train? World’s first ‘dual-mode vehicle’ to begin operating in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - It's a bus, it's a train, it's a DMV! The world's first dual-mode vehicle, equally at home on road and rail, is set to make its public debut on Saturday in the town of Kaiyo in Japan...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Asset bubbles? Champagne outfizzes Big Tech and bitcoin in 2021
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - You might be tempted to pop corks if you've invested in vintage champagne this year - the most coveted bottles have outperformed all major financial market assets, fro...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021
Russia fines Meta Platforms 2 billion roubles
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court fined Meta Platforms almost 2 billion roubles ($27.16 million) on Friday for what it said was a repeated failure to delete content Russia deems illegal, the press se...
Syndicated Content Dec 24, 2021

