Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Click to Pray 2.0 – Vatican app gets up close and personal with God
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday rolled out its latest "Click to Pray" app, offering a personal planner among new functions for what it hopes will be an improved digi...
Oct 19, 2021
Bulgaria makes COVID ‘health pass’ obligatory for leisure activities
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will make a COVID-19 "Green Certificate" mandatory for indoor access to restaurants, cinemas, gyms and shopping malls, the health minister said on Tuesday, as the country st...
Oct 19, 2021
European earnings seen up 47.6% in third quarter
By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) - Europe Inc earnings are expected to have risen 47.6% to 96.1 billion euros ($112 billion) in the third quarter, data from Refinitiv I/B/E/S showed on Tuesday, as the...
Oct 19, 2021
Dutch coronavirus cases jump 44% as hospitals feel strain
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - New coronavirus infections in the Netherlands jumped 44% in the week through Tuesday, forcing several hospitals in the country to cut back on regular care to deal with a rising n...
Oct 19, 2021
Peugeot CEO says nearly 20% of European sales through August electrified
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Stellantis NV's Peugeot brand said on Tuesday that during the first eight months of 2021 nearly 20% of the vehicles it sold in Europe were electrified. Speaking at the R...
Oct 19, 2021
Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano
By Guillermo Martinez LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) - A Spanish drone operator on Tuesday received permission to try to rescue three emaciated dogs trapped near a volcano in the Canary Islands, by catchin...
Oct 19, 2021
Hungary central bank hikes rates, vows ‘decisive’ fight against inflation
By Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's central bank raised its benchmark base rate by 15 basis points to 1.8% as expected on Tuesday and pledged to act "in the most decis...
Oct 19, 2021
Ecuador’s president declares 60-day state of emergency over rising crime
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso late on Monday declared a state of emergency in the Andean country as part of a crackdown on the consumption and traffickin...
Oct 19, 2021
Older people in Moscow told to stay home for four months amid COVID surge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Moscow city government on Tuesday ordered elderly people to stay home for four months and told businesses to have at least 30% of staff work from home amid a surge in COVID-19 c...
Oct 19, 2021
Explainer-Net zero: just patching over emissions or path for saving planet?
By Shadia Nasralla and Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - More than 190 countries committed in 2015 to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in an effort to stave ...
Oct 19, 2021
