Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Biden to push trillions in investment, plead for police reform in Congress speech
By Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt Washington (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion package for families and education in his first joi...
Apr 28, 2021
Masks, distanced applause: Small crowd planned for Biden’s first speech to Congress
By Makini Brice and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his decades in elected office, President Joe Biden attended dozens of his predecessors' joint addresses to the U.S. Congress, but the scene...
Apr 28, 2021
Mexico agrees domestic production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mexico will produce Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 domestically, its foreign minister said on a visit to Moscow, in a TV interview shared on Wednesday on the official S...
Apr 28, 2021
Column: Turning tide signals ebbing of liquidity ocean
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - Is the tide receding for global asset prices, just as the real economic recovery is on the rise? A high water mark for the global money swell that lifted financial mar...
Apr 28, 2021
Olympics: S.Korean athletes to start receiving COVID-19 vaccine this week – Yonhap
(Reuters) - South Korean athletes travelling to Tokyo for the Olympics Games later this year will receive COVID-19 vaccines starting this week, Yonhap news agency reported. Around 100 athletes and coa...
Apr 28, 2021
Bullets in the mail: death threat sent to another candidate in Madrid election
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish postal workers intercepted a death threat letter with two bullets enclosed that was mailed to the conservative head of the Madrid region, the Interior Ministry said late on ...
Apr 28, 2021
Olympics: World champion Barber hoping javelin will sing through chorus of cheers
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Javelin world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber is shutting out the COVID-19 "noise" in the lead up to the Olympics, but the Australian hopes desperately to hear the rumbl...
Apr 28, 2021
Analysis: Grab’s Nasdaq debut to test its $40 billion valuation, set roadmap for SPAC hopefuls
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's Grab more than doubled its valuation to $40 billion in about a year as part of the world's largest SPAC deal, but maintaining that level after its U....
Apr 28, 2021
EU legal case against AstraZeneca next hearings set for May 26
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Brussels court decided on Wednesday to hold two more hearings on May 26 in a legal case brought by the European Union against AstraZeneca over COVID-9 vaccine deliveries. A firs...
Apr 28, 2021
South Africa’s Ramaphosa to testify at inquiry into Zuma-era corruption
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday give testimony at an inquiry into corruption under his predecessor Jacob Zuma where he is expected to reveal what he ...
Apr 28, 2021
