Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Amnesty International says Russia may be slowly killing Navalny
PARIS (Reuters) - Alexei Navalny, the prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him, human rights group Amn...
Apr 06, 2021
Fox sues Flutter over disputed stake in sports betting firm FanDuel
(Reuters) - Fox Corp said on Tuesday it had filed a suit against Flutter Entertainment related to exercising its option to buy a 18.6% stake in U.S. sports betting firm FanDuel Group. Fox wants to pay...
Apr 06, 2021
‘A biological Fukushima’: Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of U.S. wave
By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists forecast, with fatalities cli...
Apr 06, 2021
Amazon CEO Bezos, stung by wide criticism, endorses U.S. corporate tax hike
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc supports a hike in the U.S. corporate tax rate as part of an infrastructure overhaul, Jeff Bezos, chief executive of the largest U.S. retailer...
Apr 06, 2021
Bolsonaro’s new justice minister replaces Brazil federal police chiefs
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's new justice minister on Tuesday replaced the heads of the federal police and federal highway police with candidates backed by President Jair Bolsonaro, a...
Apr 06, 2021
Facebook says data on 530 million users ‘scraped’ before September 2019
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the hole afte...
Apr 06, 2021
A third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders: study
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, sugge...
Apr 06, 2021
Champ slams new Georgia voting law ahead of Masters
By Andrew Both AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Cameron Champ, the only American player of Black heritage at the Masters, said he was disappointed in the new voting restrictions in Georgia, where the Augusta ...
Apr 06, 2021
Sony Pictures to set up Columbia Pictures-themed amusement park in Thailand
(Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment has teamed up with Thailand's Amazon Falls to set up an amusement park based on productions from its Columbia Pictures studio, in the Southeast Asian country, t...
Apr 06, 2021
‘Millionaires tax’ threat has some NY bankers, managers eyeing exits
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - For decades New York's bankers and fund managers have accepted the city's high tax rates as a part of working in the world's premier financial capital. But wi...
Apr 06, 2021
