Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Michigan seniors targeted in phone scam asking for money in exchange for COVID-19 vaccine
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Better Business Bureau of Michigan is warning of a COVID-19 scam targeting seniors. They say seniors are being targeted with robocalls and phishing emails try...
Jan 20, 2021
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny held in infamous Moscow jail
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny, detained on Sunday after flying back to Russia for the first time after being poisoned with a nerve agent, is spending his days under ...
Jan 20, 2021
Ukraine in talks with India on COVID-19 vaccine supply – Interfax
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine is in talks with Indian medical firm Serum Institute on supplying COVID-19 vaccines, Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted a deputy Ukrainian health minister as saying on Wednes...
Jan 20, 2021
Canadian home prices rise again in December: Teranet
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian home prices rose 0.6% in December from November, the strongest increase for a December since 2009, led by gains in Victoria, Halifax and Ottawa-Gatineau, da...
Jan 20, 2021
Deepen U.S. ties by protecting British values, ex-PM May urges Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister Theresa May urged her successor Boris Johnson to protect Britain's values to help strengthen ties with the new U.S. administration, saying his threat to break ...
Jan 20, 2021
Iraq reports H5N8 bird flu outbreak on farm – OIE
PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in the city of Samaraa in the centre of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said ...
Jan 20, 2021
Sweden registers 4,702 new COVID-19 cases, 206 deaths on Wednesday
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, which has spurned a lockdown throughout the pandemic, registered 4,702 new coronavirus on Wednesday, Health Agency statistics showed. The country of 10 million inhabitant...
Jan 20, 2021
Merck KGaA stops lung cancer trial testing drug hopeful bintrafusp alfa
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA said the most important clinical trial testing its cancer drug hopeful bintrafusp alfa, which it is co-developing with GlaxoSmithKline, would be stopped beca...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump revokes ethics ban on aides as he exits Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, who won the White House in part by promising to "drain the swamp" of Washington political maneuvering, on Wednesday revoked his executive o...
Jan 20, 2021
UK PM Johnson says some fishermen have faced post-Brexit barriers
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that some fishermen had experienced problems exporting fish to the European Union, an issue he said had been compounded by a d...
Jan 20, 2021
