Author Archives: Syndicated Content
2021 could end up being a record summer for Mackinac Island
MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The tourism business on Michigan's Mackinac Island bounced back in a big way this year, after a drop in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. While the island'...
Oct 25, 2021
Brazil to bring forward goal to end illegal deforestation, VP says
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil plans to bring forward its goal of ending illegal deforestation by two or three years, Vice-President Hamilton Mourao said on Monday, six days before a global climate confe...
Oct 25, 2021
Russia close to using natural gas as weapon in Europe’s gas crunch – Biden energy adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's global energy security adviser said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting close to using natural gas as a political tool if Russia...
Oct 25, 2021
Portugal budget bickering risks triggering snap election
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's Socialist government could be on the verge of collapse after six years of minority rule, with the administration's former hard-left allies threatening...
Oct 25, 2021
Mideast Green Initiative to invest $10.4 billion, says Saudi crown prince
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's crown prince launched a Middle East Green Initiative on Monday which he said aimed to invest 39 billion riyals ($10.4 billion) to reduce carbon emissions in the regio...
Oct 25, 2021
Man dies as Mediterranean hurricane batters southern Italy
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Fierce storms battered southern Italy for a second day on Monday, killing at least one person, triggering landslides and leaving roads and fields flooded, police said. The ...
Oct 25, 2021
Blast destroys part of residential building in Russia’s Naberezhnye Chelny
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An explosion destroyed part of a five-storey residential building in Russia's Naberezhnye Chelny city, some 930 km (580 miles) east of Moscow, the emergency service said on Monday. ...
Oct 25, 2021
U.N. experts condemn U.S. expulsions of Haitian migrants
GENEVA (Reuters) - UN human rights experts on Monday condemned Washington's expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, saying they formed part of a policy of "racialised exclusion" of Black Haitians...
Oct 25, 2021
Dominion, Siemens Gamesa plan Virginia offshore wind power hub
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) - U.S. power utility Dominion Energy and Spanish turbine maker Siemens Gamesa said on Monday they will build the first U.S. factory to make blades for offshore wind power,...
Oct 25, 2021
Thousands stranded as Afghan-Pakistan border crossing stays closed
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of trucks and other vehicles waited at one of the main crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday as the border closed again after a brief opening the d...
Oct 25, 2021
