Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Lisbon to open biggest vaccination site yet amid COVID-19 surge
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal will open its biggest vaccination centre yet on Wednesday as a surge in COVID-19 infections forced authorities to impose new restrictions to stop the spread, including stri...
Nov 30, 2021
Facebook digital wallet exec David Marcus to leave company
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc executive David Marcus said on Tuesday he is leaving the company at the end of this year to start working on something new. Marcus had been over...
Nov 30, 2021
New rift opens between U.S. House Republicans over bigotry claims
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new fault line opened between Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, as lawmakers squabbled publicly over accusations of religious bigotr...
Nov 30, 2021
Saudi opens consular section Kabul embassy as of Tuesday – state news agency
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced that it was opening the consular section in its embassy in the Afghani capital of Kabul as of Tuesday to provide consular services to Afghani citizens, state n...
Nov 30, 2021
Governor stops lawsuit by state against Enbridge, says Michigan state courts should decide to protect Great Lakes
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Governor Whitmer has announced that she has dismissed the federal lawsuit against Enbridge in connection with Pipeline #5. Whitmer stated in a release Tuesday that the ...
Nov 30, 2021
Factbox-Who are Islamic State’s affiliates in Central Africa?
By Hereward Holland KINSHASA (Reuters) - Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo said on Tuesday their armies mounted air and artillery strikes in a joint operation in eastern Congo against an Islamic...
Nov 30, 2021
Second Omicron case confirmed in Spain, two more suspected
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain detected a second case of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Tuesday and expects to confirm another two by the end of the week, while Basque authorities said they planned to d...
Nov 30, 2021
Soccer-Argentine Pekerman takes charge of Venezuela
(Reuters) - Former Argentina and Colombia coach Jose Pekerman has been appointed to manage Venezuela, the Venezuela Football Federation (FVF) said on Tuesday. Venezuela are the only South American cou...
Nov 30, 2021
How South African scientists spotted the Omicron COVID variant
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - On Friday Nov. 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's biggest private testing labs, sequenced the genes on eight coronavirus samples - and got...
Nov 30, 2021
Larger deficit seen in global sugar supply as India boosts ethanol
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's sugar supply balance is expected to deteriorate in the 2021/22 season that started in October due to higher use of sugarcane to ethanol production in India and lower p...
Nov 30, 2021
