Author Archives: Syndicated Content

SYDNEY (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases in Australia's Victoria hovered near record levels on Friday, even as authorities look set to lift lockdown restrictions next week in Melbourne, the state capital, as...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - An Illinois nursing facility was fined more than $83,000 for failing to protect its staff from COVID-19, the Labor Department said on Thursday, the largest penalty under...

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Jorge Silva KABUL (Reuters) - Ahmad Khalil Mayan, programme director at a large Kabul orphanage, says he is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he gives the chi...

(Reuters) - Lawyers for a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman while responding to a 911 call in 2017 are asking for his prison term to be significantly reduced to 41 months in a...

By Tim Reid (Reuters) - A teenage boy was sentenced on Thursday to nine years to life in prison for the 2019 murder of 18-year-old college student Tessa Majors in New York. Luchiano Lewis, 16, pleaded...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The United Steelworkers union (USW) urged locked-out workers at Exxon Mobil Corp's Beaumont, Texas, refinery to reject a company contract offer in a vote scheduled for Tuesday, acc...

(Reuters) - Rio Tinto on Friday reduced its 2021 iron ore shipments forecast, as a tighter labour market in Western Australia delayed the completion of a new greenfield mine at Gudai-Darri. The miner ...

(Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd said on Friday it is planning to sell a land in New South Wales for A$802 million ($594.68 million) to reduce debt, as the carrier recovers from pandemic low...

By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York artist has assembled more than 350,000 acrylic fingernails to create a neon and pale pink grotto - a tribute to surviving the coronavirus pandemic. "A...

By David Henry (Reuters) - Some big U.S. banks are buying more U.S. government securities as yields start to rise and the Federal Reserve appears ready to taper its bond-buying program - a balance she...