Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Britain considers bringing back beavers after 400 years
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is considering plans to release beavers back into the wild across England some four centuries after the dam-building mammals became extinct in Britain. The pr...
Aug 24, 2021
Arizona group inks agreement with Taiwan aimed at attracting more chip companies
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - An Arizona economic development group on Tuesday said it had made a deal with Taiwanese economic development officials aimed at making the U.S. state more attractive to T...
Aug 24, 2021
U.S. House approves voting rights bill, but outlook poor in Senate
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a voting rights measure that Democrats say would help counteract a wave of voting restrictions in Republi...
Aug 24, 2021
Afterpay loss widens as it doubles marketing spend to tap new markets
(Reuters) - Afterpay said on Wednesday its annual marketing costs more than doubled as it expanded into new markets to tap a pandemic-driven boom in demand for buy now, pay later services, widening th...
Aug 24, 2021
Explainer-What happens after Biden’s evacuation force leaves Afghanistan?
By Idrees Ali and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday stuck by his plan to remove the nearly 6,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of August https://www.reut...
Aug 24, 2021
Chinese tutoring firms adapt to core subject ban with hands-on courses
By Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tutoring firms are having to learn new ways of making money after a ban on teaching core subjects left them promoting classes such as drama and ...
Aug 24, 2021
Remittance costs key to take-up of Salvadoran bitcoin plan -development bank
By Nelson Renteria and Anthony Esposito SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Central American countries are eagerly waiting to see if El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as parallel legal tender cuts the cost of re...
Aug 24, 2021
Japan seeks to expand state of emergency to 21 prefectures in total
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is looking to expand a state of emergency to eight more prefectures, taking the total to 21 in all, to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus infections, the minister in charge of COV...
Aug 24, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 vaccine approval is ‘seismic’ shift for legality of mandates, experts say
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Formal U.S approval of the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine will make it nearly impossible to successfully challenge mandates by employers, legal experts said. The decis...
Aug 24, 2021
Governor Whitmer signs legislation allowing clean slate for non-repeat OWI offenders
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Monday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 4219 and 4220, which will allow for expungement of convictions for a first violation of operating while intoxicate...
Aug 24, 2021
