Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Violence against Brazil’s indigenous people rose last year, report finds
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Violence against Brazil's indigenous people increased last year as land disputes and invasions of their reservations rose and the government failed to provide pr...
Oct 28, 2021
Citigroup to require all U.S. employees to be vaccinated
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it will require all U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment. The bank will comply with the Biden administration p...
Oct 28, 2021
Negotiating from the left, Pramila Jayapal now at the center of Joe Biden’s agenda
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Congress met in January 2017 to certify Donald Trump's presidential victory, a new lawmaker rose to object and was quickly gaveled to silence by Vice Preside...
Oct 28, 2021
Lebanon’s Hezbollah praises information minister, condemns ‘unjust’ Gulf backlash
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite group Hezbollah praised information minister George Kordahi, who delivered remarks critical of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen prior to takin...
Oct 28, 2021
Bank of Canada ‘exactly right’ now on inflation, rates, former governor says
By Steve Scherer and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada is right to warn that inflation will persist well into next year and to signal that interest rates are likely to start moving hi...
Oct 28, 2021
Electoral court clears Bolsonaro, judge warns of fake news crackdown in 2022 vote
By Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's authorities will not tolerate the dissemination of fake news in next year's elections, a Supreme Court justice said on Thursday after an electoral court...
Oct 28, 2021
UK to convene committee to look at fallout from triggering Article 16 – Sky News
(Reuters) - Britain is activating a key government committee to look at the fallout from suspending cooperation over Northern Ireland, Sky News reported on Thursday. UK ministers are holding discussio...
Oct 28, 2021
Romantic encounters between Cuban zoo animals surge during quarantine quiet
HAVANA (Reuters) - Zookeepers at Cuba's National Zoo say several species of exotic and endangered animals took advantage of the peace and quiet brought on by the coronavirus pandemic for romantic enco...
Oct 28, 2021
Canada defends pandemic policy on asylum-seekers while letting more enter through exemptions
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government is trying to quash a legal challenge to its policy of turning back asylum-seekers entering the country between border crossings, sayi...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. House progressives won’t back Pelosi call for infrastructure vote, Jayapal says
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Progressive Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have enough votes to block a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has championed ...
Oct 28, 2021
