Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UNESCO keeps Great Barrier Reef off “in danger” list after Australian lobbying
By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger" after a UN panel on Friday agreed to defer a vote until 2022 amid ...
Jul 23, 2021
ECB policymakers don’t expect to decide on bond buys in September -sources
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers do not expect to decide on the future of their emergency bond purchase programme in September as there w...
Jul 23, 2021
Public Health England says signs of increased reinfection risk with Delta variant
LONDON (Reuters) - Public Health England on Friday said that there were early signs of increased reinfection risk from the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant compared to Alpha, in an updat...
Jul 23, 2021
Indian central bank looking at phased launch of its own digital currency
By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India is considering a phased introduction of its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), deputy governor T. Rabi Shankar said, and is examining ...
Jul 23, 2021
Uganda, struggling to buy COVID-19 vaccines, splashes on new vehicles for lawmakers
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has spent over $30.2 million on buying new vehicles for lawmakers, a move that has been slammed by critics who depict it as profligacy in a country struggling to buy vaccine...
Jul 23, 2021
Haiti’s history of violence and rebellion
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first Black-led republic when it threw off French rule in the 19th century...
Jul 23, 2021
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - The World Health Organization called for all countries to work together to investigate the origins of the coronavirus that caused COVID-19, a day after China rejected plans for more checks...
Jul 23, 2021
Iraq war Marine walks U.S.-Mexico border to protest deportation of veterans
By Jose Luis Gonzalez EL PASO (Reuters) - When U.S. military veteran Ramon Castro began meeting deported veterans living along the U.S.-Mexican border not far from his home in Southern California, he ...
Jul 23, 2021
NHC says 30% chance of cyclone near southeastern U.S. coast
(Reuters) - A weather system located off the southeastern U.S. coastline has a 30% chance of becoming a cyclone, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday. "Environmental conditio...
Jul 23, 2021
Tech firm Cvent to go public in $5.3 billion blank-check deal
(Reuters) - Cloud-based meeting and event technology company Cvent will go public through a merger with a blank-check firm in a deal that gives it an enterprise value of $5.3 billion, the companies sa...
Jul 23, 2021
