Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for 4 months amid power cuts
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has banned the energy-intensive mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin for nearly 4 months, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, as the country faces major power blac...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
Tech giants told to stop making money from disinformation in EU fake news fight
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook, Alphabet unit Google and other tech giants will have to commit to curb the monetisation of disinformation through advertisement placements under the Euro...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
‘Social contagion’ as Sweden sees surge in deadly shootings
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has gone from having one of the lowest rates of gun violence in Europe to having one of the highest, a report said on Wednesday, describing what one researcher called a "s...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
UK health minister should have been fired for lying – PM Johnson’s ex-adviser
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister Matt Hancock should have been fired for lying in government meetings on COVID-19, Prime Minster Boris Johnson's former top adviser Dominic Cummings said on...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
BoE’s Kashyap wants ‘forensic investigation’ of Archegos collapse
LONDON (Reuters) - Financial regulators should undertake a detailed cross-border probe into how the collapse of U.S. investment fund Archegos cost mostly foreign banks more than $10 billion, Bank of E...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
Analysis: As Gaza fighting ebbs, Israel’s communities eye each other warily
By Rami Ayyub, Jonathan Saul, Stephen Farrell and Zainah El-Haroun HAIFA/JAFFA (Reuters) - Two days after Hamas and Israel began launching rockets and air strikes, Israel's president called a TV stati...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
‘Rugrats’ cause havoc with smart tech in TV reboot
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Brighter, bigger and more mischievous, television's "Rugrats" return on Thursday with a host of new toys to play with. Seventeen years after the end of the ani...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
Indian doctors question plan to hand out guru’s COVID-19 remedy
By Manas Mishra MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian doctors on Wednesday decried the free distribution of an unproven remedy to COVID-19 patients by the state of Haryana as the maker of the herbal medicine face...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
Why Roma migrants from Europe are taking rafts from Mexico to enter the U.S.
By Adrees Latif and Radu-Sorin Marinas ROMA, Texas (Reuters) - Among the hundreds of Central American migrants crossing the Rio Grande river daily on rafts from Mexico to Texas, dozens stood out on a ...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021
In U.S. creator economy boom, big tech battles for online talent
By Elizabeth Culliford and Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Katie Feeney, an 18-year-old from Olney, Maryland, was in her calculus class on Zoom in November when she learned that a week of posting skits and un...
Syndicated Content May 26, 2021

