Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Belarus leader threatens to leave protesters ‘without hands’ as strike rumbles
KYIV (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to leave protesters "without hands" on Friday, sharpening his rhetoric as hundreds marched through the streets and rallied outside un...
Oct 30, 2020
OPEC oil output rises more on Libya restart, Iraq: Reuters survey
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC oil output has risen for a fourth month in October, a Reuters survey found, as a restart of more Libyan installations and higher Iraqi exports offset full adhere...
Oct 30, 2020
Everything’s bigger in Texas: Early vote surpasses total 2016 turnout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining in the U.S. presidential campaign, more than 9 million people have cast ballots in Texas, eclipsing total turnout from 2016, the Texas secretary of stat...
Oct 30, 2020
As Algeria heads for constitution vote, enthusiasm in short supply
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's leaders see Sunday's referendum on a new constitution as a key part of their strategy to move beyond last year's popular unrest, but few people in the st...
Oct 30, 2020
Waymo releases Phoenix area self-driving car incident score card
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Self-driving tech company Waymo, which this month opened its driverless taxi service in the Phoenix suburbs to the public, on Friday said its autonomous v...
Oct 30, 2020
Four dead, 120 injured in earthquake: Turkey’s disaster management authority
ANKARA (Reuters) - Four people died and 120 people were injured in an earthquake that struck the Aegean coast of Turkey, the country's disaster management authority said on Friday. One of those who wa...
Oct 30, 2020
Chevron, Exxon shrink spending as coronavirus cuts demand
By Jennifer Hiller, Arathy S Nair and Shariq Khan (Reuters) - U.S. oil giants Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Inc cut spending aggressively in the third quarter in a race to beat weak trends in fuel dema...
Oct 30, 2020
Pope vows to fight corruption but sees it as uphill struggle
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday that he is determined to root out corruption in the Catholic Church but that he is not overly optimist...
Oct 30, 2020
EU urges quick WHO reform, asks for more transparency in pandemics
By Francesco Guarascio and Caroline Copley BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) should be quickly overhauled, get more powers to handle pandemics and expose its member state...
Oct 30, 2020
UK R number edges down to 1.1-1.3, growth rate slows
LONDON (Reuters) - The reproduction "R" number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Britain fell slightly for the second week in a row, government scientists said on Friday, adding the estimated growth rate ha...
Oct 30, 2020
