Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: Soaring international prices aggravate Cuban food crisis
By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Soaring international food and shipping prices and low domestic production are further squeezing import-dependent Cuba's ability to feed its people. Cuba traditionally...
May 20, 2021
After verification freeze, here’s how you can get Twitter’s blue check mark
By Elizabeth Culliford Twitter users can once again apply to be verified after a years-long freeze on public submissions for the site's blue check marks, though the company said only "notable" users w...
May 20, 2021
EU parliament freezes China deal ratification until Beijing lifts sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament agreed on Thursday to freeze ratification of a new investment pact with China until Beijing lifts sanctions on EU politicians that include five members of ...
May 20, 2021
COVID fight could return ‘to square one’: experts sound vaccines alarm
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - India's export ban on COVID-19 shots risks dragging the battle against the pandemic "back to square one" unless wealthy nations step in to plug a gaping hole in the ...
May 20, 2021
Restrictions at U.S. land borders with Canada, Mexico extended
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least June 21, the U.S. and Canadian governments said on Thursday. The restri...
May 20, 2021
Santander to pump up payments business in bid to boost valuation
By Jess Aguado and Rachel Armstrong MADRID (Reuters) - Santander expects to triple revenues in its payments business PagoNxt to around 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in the next few years as it moves ...
May 20, 2021
Ceuta dream lures migrants to Moroccan border town where shops stand empty
By Ahmed Eljechtimi FNIDEQ, Morocco (Reuters) - As migrants crowd along a coast road in Fnideq intent on crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the Moroccan town's Masira Khadra market stands lar...
May 20, 2021
One million U.S. households sign up for broadband subsidy – FCC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1 million U.S. households have signed up to take part in a temporary $3.2 billion broadband subsidy program created by Congress in December, the Federal Communications...
May 20, 2021
Hungary to block EU’s Africa-Pacific trade and development deal
By Anita Komuves and Robin Emmott BUDAPEST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungary cannot approve a new European Union trade and development accord with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries because it would ...
May 20, 2021
Morgan Stanley investors back bank directors, executive pay packages
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley shareholders voted overwhelmingly to elect all bank directors and approve the bank's executive compensation packages, according to a preliminary tally of the shares...
May 20, 2021
