Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Motor racing-Ben Sulayem’s rise to the top marks an historic shift
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Mohammed Ben Sulayem's election to the top job in world motorsport on Friday marks a historic shift for the governing FIA and reflects the increasing influence and i...
Dec 17, 2021
Bond markets don’t buy hawkish Fed’s view on how high U.S. rates can go
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's more hawkish turn this week came amid heightened worries about economic recovery and inflation, but it has barely changed the bon...
Dec 17, 2021
Rugby-Premiership records 54 COVID-19 cases among players and staff in past week
(Reuters) - Premiership Rugby said on Friday it had recorded a season-high of 54 cases of COVID-19 among players and staff in the past week -- nearly double the number of cases in the first 14 weeks c...
Dec 17, 2021
Spain’s coronavirus infection rate rises to ‘very high risk’ level
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's coronavirus infection rate rose above 500 cases per 100,000 people on Friday, crossing over the threshold considered "very high risk" by the Health Ministry and more than do...
Dec 17, 2021
‘Tidal wave’: Omicron could put U.S. COVID-19 surge into overdrive
By Joseph Ax and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to further inf...
Dec 17, 2021
Italy’s Monte dei Paschi plans to raise 2.5 billion euros in capital
MILAN (Reuters) - State-owned Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) on Friday said it planned to raise 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) in capital next year after Rome failed to clinch a sale t...
Dec 17, 2021
France reduces delay to get third COVID-19 booster shot to four months
PARIS (Reuters) - France will reduce the delay between the second and third COVID-19 vaccination injection from five to four months from January, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday. He a...
Dec 17, 2021
Tear gas fired at opposition supporters in Sudan’s capital, witnesses say
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Tear gas was fired at thousands of supporters of Sudan's opposition Forces for Freedom and Change movement who had gathered in the capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses said. The ...
Dec 17, 2021
Sport-North American leagues scramble to stem rise in COVID-19 outbreaks
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - The NBA has followed the NFL in rolling out tighter COVID-19 protocols amid a sudden wave of positive cases while another postponed NHL game further clouded that league's p...
Dec 17, 2021
Sport-COVID forces players into isolation as calls for vaccination grow
By Rohith Nair (Reuters) - World sport continued to reel from the surge in COVID-19 cases on Friday with politicians urging sportspeople to set an example by not shunning the vaccine, while internatio...
Dec 17, 2021
