Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Explainer-Brexit trade deal will lessen, but not kill, the economic pain
By John Chalmers and Gabriela Baczynska (Reuters) - Britain has clinched a last-minute trade agreement with the European Union that will preserve its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's si...
Dec 24, 2020
UK PM Johnson says difficult times ahead as variant virus spreads
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Thursday that the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus meant there would be difficult times ahead, citing the need to control it...
Dec 24, 2020
Bluff and brinksmanship: How Britain got a Brexit trade deal done
By John Chalmers, Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - As trade talks with the United Kingdom ground to deadlock on Dec. 9, one European Union official summed up the mood...
Dec 24, 2020
Germany reports first case of coronavirus variant spreading in British
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that has been spreading rapidly in Britain has been found in Germany for the first time, the German state of ...
Dec 24, 2020
Spain to keep negotiating on Gibraltar border after Brexit deal
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Madrid and London would continue to negotiate an agreement on the British territory of Gibraltar on the Iberian Peninsula after the Brexit ...
Dec 24, 2020
Brexit: Britain’s tortuous journey out of the EU
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, four years after voting to leave the bloc, and seven days before it quits one of the world's biggest tradin...
Dec 24, 2020
EU ambassadors to meet on Christmas Day to review post-Brexit trade deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors will meet at 10:30am CET on Friday, Christmas Day, to begin reviewing the post-Brexit trade deal clinched on Thursday by the EU and Britain, an EU spoke...
Dec 24, 2020
Italy reports 505 coronavirus deaths on Thursday, total cases surpass 2 million
ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 505 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday against 553 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new infections increased to 18,040 from 14,522, taki...
Dec 24, 2020
Experts who wrestled with SolarWinds hackers say cleanup could take months – or longer
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cybersecurity expert Steven Adair and his team were in the final stages of purging the hackers from a think tank's network earlier this year when a suspicious ...
Dec 24, 2020
UK parliament to vote on Brexit deal on Dec. 30
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will vote to approve a trade deal with the European Union on Dec. 30, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday following the announcement of an agreement w...
Dec 24, 2020
