Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China approves $1.5 billion currency swap with Sri Lanka
By Waruna Karunatilake and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - China has approved a 10 billion yuan ($1.54 billion) currency swap with Sri Lanka, a government spokesman in Colombo said on Wednesday, givi...
Mar 10, 2021
Norway parliament sustains fresh cyber attack
OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian Parliament said on Wednesday it had sustained a fresh cyber attack, six months after a previous one was publicised. "We know that data has been extracted but we do not y...
Mar 10, 2021
Children lose parents as thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast
By Aaron Ross (Reuters) - Hospitals have run out of morgue space and are piling bodies into refrigerated shipping containers. Radio and television stations are flooded with calls trying to locate the ...
Mar 10, 2021
ConocoPhillips resumes share buybacks, promises capital discipline
(Reuters) - ConocoPhillips said on Wednesday it has resumed its share buyback program and pledged to keep spending flat even as oil prices climbed, the latest U.S. energy firm to embrace investor retu...
Mar 10, 2021
Flags in Michigan at half-staff Thursday to honor passing of former legislator from Kalamazoo
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex to be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, March 11 to honor the life and ...
Mar 10, 2021
UK says Hong Kong electoral proposals are an attack on its rights and freedoms
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday that proposed changes to Hong Kong's electoral system would be another attack on the freedoms of its former colony, and that the government had raised its ...
Mar 10, 2021
Citigroup offers rapid at-home COVID-19 tests to some U.S. staff
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc has offered rapid at-home COVID-19 testing to some employees that have continued to work at its U.S. branches and offices through the pandemic as they were unable perform the...
Mar 10, 2021
‘Justice for Diego’: Argentines to march seeking answers over Maradona’s death
By Nicols Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentines will take to the streets on Wednesday to demand what they say is justice for Diego Maradona after the soccer icon's death in November sparked inv...
Mar 10, 2021
Russian central bank says return to 4% inflation target could be delayed until 2022
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The proinflationary impact of aggregate demand on prices, increased logistics costs and several one-off factors, could delay a return of Russia's inflation to its 4% target until 20...
Mar 10, 2021
Antibiotics may have been overused in COVID-19 patients: U.S. study
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - A majority of COVID-19 patients that were admitted to U.S. hospitals during the first few months of the pandemic were prescribed antibiotics even before a bacterial infecti...
Mar 10, 2021
