Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Instagram launches test where users can choose to see likes
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Instagram is launching a small global test on Wednesday where users can choose whether to hide like counts on their own posts or other people's posts, a Facebook spo...
Apr 14, 2021
Teen shot dead after aiming toy gun at Maryland State Police trooper
(Corrects typographical error in penultimate paragraph to make it "leave" instead of "lead") (Reuters) - A Maryland State Police trooper shot a 16-year-old boy dead after the teenager aimed what inves...
Apr 14, 2021
French Committee confident French athletes will be vaccinated for Tokyo
PARIS (Reuters) - The French Olympic committee (CNOSF) is confident that all French athletes can be vaccinated against COVID-19 before this year's Tokyo Olympics, its president said on Wednesday. "The...
Apr 14, 2021
Italians seen increasingly reluctant to accept AstraZeneca shots
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - The head of healthcare management in Italy's largest region, Lombardy, said on Wednesday there was a growing reluctance amongst residents to accept AstraZeneca's CO...
Apr 14, 2021
U.S. spy chiefs warn of ‘unparalleled’ China threat in return to Congress
By Patricia Zengerle, Mark Hosenball and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agency leaders warned on Wednesday of the "unparalleled threat" posted by China, citing Beijing's regional ag...
Apr 14, 2021
Lithuania to introduce ‘COVID-19 passports’ for certain groups
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania on Wednesday agreed to roll out national digital COVID-19 immunity certificates by early May to allow some people to bypass restrictions on certain activ...
Apr 14, 2021
Healthcare collapse imminent, Brazil’s Sao Paulo warns, as COVID-19 cases surge
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's richest and most populous state, Sao Paulo, has warned its ability to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients was on the verge of collapse as it ran perilously low on k...
Apr 14, 2021
Swiss to further relax COVID-19 restrictions from next week
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government announced further easing of its COVID-19 restrictions on Wednesday, allowing restaurants to reopen outdoor terraces from next week and sports events to take pla...
Apr 14, 2021
Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak
(Reuters) - Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday it had launched an inquiry into Facebook Inc, after media reports that a collated dataset of Facebook user personal data had been mad...
Apr 14, 2021
Hungary to re-open restaurant terraces next week, PM Orban says
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will allow restaurant terraces to re-open once 3.5 million people, about a third of the population, are inoculated against COVID-19, a target expected to be hit sometime n...
Apr 14, 2021
