Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Zara owner to charge for paper bags in Spanish stores in push for reuse
MADRID (Reuters) - The owner of the fashion brand Zara, Inditex, will start charging 10 euro cents ($0.12) for paper bags from next week at all of its shops in Spain as part of a push for sustainabili...
Oct 15, 2021
Countries respond to heart inflammation risk from mRNA shots
(Reuters) - Some countries have halted altogether or are giving only one dose of COVID shots based on so-called mRNA technology to teens following reports of possible rare cardiovascular side effects....
Oct 15, 2021
PM Kishida to South Korea’s Moon: Japan wants ‘appropriate’ response on wartime compensation
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on Friday that he had spoken with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and told him that Japan wanted an "appropriate" response ...
Oct 15, 2021
Chinese central bank official sees liquidity balanced, no big swings in Q4
BEIJING (Reuters) - Liquidity in China's banking system will be basically balanced in the fourth quarter, with no big fluctuations, a central bank official said on Friday. The People's Bank of China (...
Oct 15, 2021
Germany’s SPD, Greens, FDP agree on coal exit by 2030
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's centre-left Social Democrats, the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats agreed on major points in their efforts to form a coalition government including the exit from coal...
Oct 15, 2021
Futures edge higher ahead of Goldman earnings, retail sales data
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures edged higher on Friday and pointed to weekly gains for major indexes, ahead of results from Goldman Sachs, which is expected to round out a strong third-qu...
Oct 15, 2021
Beirut bloodshed deepens doubts over port blast probe
By Maha El Dahan BEIRUT (Reuters) - The fate of a probe into the Beirut port explosion appears in increasing doubt after a bitter political dispute about the actions of the judge leading the investiga...
Oct 15, 2021
Israel reports bird flu outbreak on poultry farm, OIE says
PARIS (Reuters) - Israel has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in Nahalal in the north of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Fr...
Oct 15, 2021
Focus on freedoms in Slovenia triggers EU Twitter spat
By Sabine Siebold and John Chalmers (Reuters) - A visit by EU lawmakers to assess media freedoms in Slovenia has sparked a Twitter spat between the country's prime minister and his Dutch counterpart, ...
Oct 15, 2021
Vulnerable U.S. homeowners face uncertainty as mortgage forbearance ends
By Jonnelle Marte and Katanga Johnson (Reuters) - Close to half a million low-income homeowners in the United States, many of them minorities, are nearing the end of mortgage forbearance plans that al...
Oct 15, 2021
