Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he is still not ‘convinced’ by COVID-19 restrictions
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday said he had not yet been convinced to change his long-held stance against lockdown measures to control the coronavirus outbreak ...
Mar 22, 2021
Kosovo parliament backs Albin Kurti as new prime minister
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's parliament backed Albin Kurti as prime minister on Monday, more than a month after the small Balkan country held a snap election. Kurti, 46, a leftist and an Albanian nat...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. drillers, miners would be out billions if paid climate, health costs: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. coal, natural gas and motor fuel producers get implicit benefits worth tens of billion of dollars a year by not having to pay for the damage their products do to the climat...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. Postal chief set to release 10-year strategic plan
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to release a 10-year strategic plan as early as Tuesday expected to propose slowing delivery standards for some fi...
Mar 22, 2021
Extradited North Korean appears in U.S. court over money laundering
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Korean citizen accused by the United States of laundering money to circumvent U.S. and U.N. sanctions over his country's nuclear weapons program appeared in a U.S. court...
Mar 22, 2021
Men outnumber women three to one on COVID-19 task forces
By Matthew Lavietes NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Men outnumber women three to one on government coronavirus task forces globally, a disparity that risks creating an unequal recovery, the Un...
Mar 22, 2021
Biden to nominate Lina Khan as an FTC commissioner: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden intends to nominate Lina Khan, a former counsel to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, to be a commissioner of th...
Mar 22, 2021
Analysis: Turkey steps into abyss with latest central bank boss ousting
By Marc Jones and Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey may have lost the faith of investors long weary of a cycle of unorthodox policies, analysts said, after President Tayyip Erdogan's shock sacking ...
Mar 22, 2021
Inside border facility in Texas, migrants crowd together, new photos show
(Reuters) - Separated into groups by walls of plastic sheeting, dozens of migrants lie on the floor, packed closely in together in recent photographs taken inside a U.S. border processing center in Do...
Mar 22, 2021
Former Lakers great Baylor dies aged 86
(Reuters) - Former Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers forward Elgin Baylor died of natural causes at the age of 86 on Monday, the NBA franchise announced. Baylor, the number one draft pick in 1958 and...
Mar 22, 2021
