Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Amazon, Canal+ win main TV rights for French soccer League 1 – media
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. online giant Amazon and France's Canal+ television group have won main TV rights for French League 1 soccer until 2024 for 663 million euros ($802.23 million), French media repo...
Jun 11, 2021
UK rapper takes his anti-plastic rhymes to G7 summit
FALMOUTH, England (Reuters) - It was when he was clearing a beach of plastic debris that rapper Jimmy Hall felt he had to put into words his sense of despair at the growing environmental crisis facing...
Jun 11, 2021
Venezuela seniors complain of disorder, confusion in vaccination campaign
By Vivian Sequera and Mircely Guanipa MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) - After hours of waiting outside a coronavirus vaccination center in the Venezuelan city of Maracay, hundreds of senior citizens who ...
Jun 11, 2021
U.S. FDA asks J&J to discard 60 million vaccine doses made at Baltimore plant -Times
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has asked Johnson & Johnson to discard 60 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine manufactured at the problem-plagued Baltimore factory, the New York Times...
Jun 11, 2021
McDonald’s shuts some Indonesia outlets over BTS meal frenzy
(Reuters) - McDonald's was forced to briefly shut some outlets in Indonesia earlier this week when the launch of a limited edition meal inspired by K-pop group BTS sparked frenzied excitement and fear...
Jun 11, 2021
Turkey hits second senior PKK official in Iraq camp strike: Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey struck a senior Kurdistan Workers Party official at a refugee camp in northern Iraq, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday, in the second such attack in less than ...
Jun 11, 2021
Blinken raises COVID-19 origins, other U.S. concerns, in call with Chinese counterpart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the importance of cooperation and transparency in probes of the origins of COVID-19 in a call with his Chinese counterpart Yang J...
Jun 11, 2021
Zambian court throws out second challenge to Lungu re-election bid
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that President Edgar Lungu can stand for re-election in August, throwing out a second opposition challenge to his eligibility on the ba...
Jun 11, 2021
Fed may opt for faster phase-out of housing-backed bond purchases
By Ann Saphir and Dan Burns (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve could stop adding to its holdings of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) several months before it finishes increasing its stockpile of Treasuri...
Jun 11, 2021
Russia records highest daily COVID cases since February
(Corrects typo in headline) MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday reported 12,505 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, its highest number of daily infections since late February, taking the natio...
Jun 11, 2021
