Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fed resignations don’t blunt calls for broader ethics changes
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer and public interest groups on Monday kept up the pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to impose stricter ethics rules on Fed officia...
Sep 27, 2021
Guinea junta bars its members from running in next elections
By Saliou Samb KINSHASA (Reuters) - Guinea's junta said on Monday its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on the length of transition to el...
Sep 27, 2021
N.Korea fires unidentified projectile, criticises U.S. ‘hostile’ policy
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired an unidentified projectile towards the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, amid Pyongyang's calls for the United States ...
Sep 27, 2021
North Korea has right to test weapons given hostile policies- U.N. envoy
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations called on Monday for the United States to give up its "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang and said no one could deny his countr...
Sep 27, 2021
White House backs workplace rights bill for nursing mothers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Monday said it is backing a bill that could give millions of new mothers more workplace rights when they pump breast milk. A U.S. House of Representa...
Sep 27, 2021
Gymnastics-Biles says she should have quit before Tokyo Games
(Reuters) - Four-times Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles told New York Magazine that she should have quit gymnastics "way before Tokyo," where she suffered from a case of "twisties" that derailed he...
Sep 27, 2021
U.S. Senate fails to advance debt ceiling, government funding measures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sharply divided U.S. Senate on Monday failed to advance a measure to suspend the federal debt ceiling and avoid a partial government shutdown, as Republican lawmakers denied t...
Sep 27, 2021
Shift to EVs means huge ‘reskilling’ job for Europe – report
By Nick Carey (Reuters) - The shift to electric vehicles will force huge changes in the auto industry and require EU backing for 'reskilling' programs to help workers prepare for a zero-emission futur...
Sep 27, 2021
Five key moments from the R. Kelly sex abuse trial
By Tyler Clifford and Luc Cohen (Reuters) - R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury on Monday in his sex trafficking trial. Prosecutors described a decades-long scheme in which the R&B singer used hi...
Sep 27, 2021
Chile cenbank to decide on roll-out of digital currency in 2022
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's central bank will decide in early 2022 on a strategy for the potential roll-out of its own digital currency, the bank's president said on Monday, as policymakers worldwide...
Sep 27, 2021
