Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil lower house leader torpedoes impeachment threat to Bolsonaro
By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - There is currently no political path for launching impeachment proceedings against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the head of the lower house said ...
Jul 01, 2021
British PM Johnson welcomes Germany’s Merkel for swansong UK trip
LONDON (Reuters) - Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet of top ministers during a visit to Britain on Friday, the first time a foreign leader ha...
Jul 01, 2021
Brazil reports 65,163 new coronavirus cases, 2,029 deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil registered 65,163 new coronavirus cases and 2,029 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. (Reporting by Pedro Fonseca; Editing...
Jul 01, 2021
Tennis-Teenage wildcard Raducanu keeps home flag flying in women’s singles
LONDON (Reuters) - British hopes in the Wimbledon women's singles were kept alive in unlikely fashion as 18-year-old wildcard Emma Raducanu shocked former French Open runner-up Marketa Vondrousova on ...
Jul 01, 2021
U.S. Justice Department withdraws from settlement; launches probe of Realtors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was withdrawing from a settlement with the National Association of Realtors to facilitate a broader investigation of the organiza...
Jul 01, 2021
Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Workers identifying as "Black+" or "Latinx+" left Alphabet Inc's Google at higher rates last year than in 2019, the company said on Thursday in its latest annual diversity r...
Jul 01, 2021
Financial firm wants out of Britney Spears conservatorship case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bessemer Trust, a wealth management firm that had been tapped as co-conservator of Britney Spears' estate, on Thursday asked a Los Angeles court to withdraw from the case after...
Jul 01, 2021
IMF says encouraged by tax agreement; urges holdout countries to join up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday welcomed an agreement by 130 countries to back a global corporate minimum tax, and said work would continue to bring othe...
Jul 01, 2021
U.N. Security Council likely to meet next week on Ethiopia dam
(Corrects in 2nd paragraph that Arab states issued call last month, not this month) By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will likely meet next week to dis...
Jul 01, 2021
Facebook asks: Are your friends becoming extremists?
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday. Screenshots shared on Tw...
Jul 01, 2021
