Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Super Bowl LV watched by 96.4 million viewers across all platforms – CBS
(Reuters) - Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast on CBS attracted 96.4 million viewers across all platforms, the ViacomCBS-owned network said on Tuesday. The network did not disclose how many people watched ...
Feb 09, 2021
Hungarian opposition radio forced off air as loses licence renewal case
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian opposition radio station lost an appeal against the removal of its licence on Tuesday, cutting by one the already dwindling ranks of media outlets cri...
Feb 09, 2021
Alpine skiing: Bad weather wipes out world championships for second day
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Bad weather thwarted attempts to start the Alpine skiing world championships for the second day in a row on Tuesday with the women's super-G called off due to fog....
Feb 09, 2021
Volunteer doctors turned away from Portugal’s struggling health service
By Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) - Doctors volunteering to help Portugal's overstretched health service with a peak of COVID-19 hospitalisations say they are being turned away or encountering un...
Feb 09, 2021
Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3 billion deal to build low earth orbit satellites
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian satellite company Telesat on Tuesday tapped Thales Alenia Space to build 300 low earth orbit (LEO) telecommunications satellites in a contract worth about ...
Feb 09, 2021
Iraq hangs five men convicted of terrorism, sources say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Tuesday hanged five people convicted of terrorism charges, local security officials said. All those executed at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya were Iraqi ...
Feb 09, 2021
Biden will ‘walk, not run’ on trade deals as Sino-U.S. tension lingers
By Divya Chowdhury (Reuters) - Sino-U.S. ties will stay tense as U.S. President Joe Biden is unlikely to rush into new deals with the world's second largest economy or reduce tariffs on China, even if...
Feb 09, 2021
Volkswagen explores flying cars in China
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Volkswagen is conducting a feasibility study in China about flying cars, Europe's biggest automaker said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of companies looking into the potentia...
Feb 09, 2021
Exclusive: Berlin earmarks 9 billion euros to buy COVID-19 shots for Germans and EU
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is planning to spend nearly 9 billion euros ($10.9 billion) this year to help procure up to 635.1 million COVID-19 vaccination shots for its population a...
Feb 09, 2021
Britain to bring in COVID hotel quarantine from February 15 – health minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it would bring in tighter border controls from Monday Feb. 15 to help guard the country against new variants of COVID-19, requiring hotel quarantine in England for thos...
Feb 09, 2021
