Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Texas legislature to take up voting limits, other measures in special session
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers will kick off a special session on Thursday to consider a range of Republican-backed measures, including voting restrictions that Democratic lawmakers previo...
Jul 08, 2021
No hope: Families confront fate of Florida collapse victims
By Brad Brooks SURFSIDE, Florida (Reuters) - It was the dreaded end that all had feared. Fourteen days after a seaside condominium tower collapsed just north of Miami, rescuers said their mission was ...
Jul 08, 2021
Google to buy Japan payment startup for $182 million-plus – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is set to buy Japanese smartphone payment startup Pring for more than 20 billion yen ($181.9 million), the Nikkei financial daily reported on Thursday. (Reporti...
Jul 08, 2021
Volkswagen to appeal Italian court decision on class action over Dieselgate
MILAN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Thursday it would appeal against a decision by an Italian court ordering the German group to refund consumers participating in a class action lawsuit over the carm...
Jul 08, 2021
Soccer-Heroic Danes show heart despite fall at final Euro hurdle
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - With their Euro 2020 campaign looking over by halftime in the opening game after Christian Eriksen's collapse, Denmark somehow came blazing back to reach the semi-finals, only t...
Jul 08, 2021
Futures tumble on growth worries, Chinese tech rout
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell more than 1% on Thursday as the growing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant cast doubts over an economic recovery, while a rout in Chinese technology stocks ...
Jul 08, 2021
Court case of 47 Hong Kong democracy activists to resume on Sept 23
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - The widely monitored national security case of 47 Hong Kong democracy activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, most of whom have been in custody for...
Jul 08, 2021
Greens candidate for German chancellor says sexist scrutiny holding her back
By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Repeatedly questioned about how she will juggle motherhood with work, the only woman with a chance of succeeding Angela Merkel as German chancellor says many Germans ...
Jul 08, 2021
Share of UK workforce on furlough drops to 5% – ONS
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses reported that the proportion of staff on furlough fell to 5% in the second half of June, its lowest since the job support programme started last...
Jul 08, 2021
UK watchdog weighs probe of Motorola’s Airwave network
(Reuters) - Britain's competition watchdog said on Thursday it was considering launching an investigation into Motorola Solutions Inc's Airwave network that is used by emergency services in the nation...
Jul 08, 2021
