Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Target reports over 17% jump in sales during holiday period
(Reuters) - Target Corp said on Wednesday its comparable sales rose 17.2% in November and December as its online sales more than doubled during the holiday period. (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengal...
Jan 13, 2021
Aussie De Minaur warms up for home slam with Antalya title
(Reuters) - Australian Alex de Minaur warmed up for his home Grand Slam with an ATP title on Wednesday, winning the Antalya Open when fellow finalist Alexander Bublik retired with an ankle injury afte...
Jan 13, 2021
Carrefour shares leap on Couche-Tard merger talks
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - European retail giant Carrefour has received a surprise merger approach from Canadian convenience-store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard, sending the French com...
Jan 13, 2021
Water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron continue falling after record high levels in 2020
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Water levels on the Great Lakes are continuing to slowly drift lower. Some that have been in record high water territory over the last year are now easing away fro...
Jan 13, 2021
U.S. cancels its observation of Uganda’s presidential election
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The United States has cancelled its observation of Uganda's presidential election because most of its accreditation requests were denied and said Thursday's vote would lack account...
Jan 13, 2021
Hungary detects UK variant of coronavirus, surgeon general says
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has detected a new, more easily transmissible variant of coronavirus first found in Britain, Surgeon General Cecilia Muller said on Wednesday. "My colleagues have identifi...
Jan 13, 2021
Singapore says ramping up COVID-19 vaccination drive
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - More than 6,000 people in Singapore have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Wednesday, with numbers expected to rise substantially in th...
Jan 13, 2021
ECB’s Lagarde calls for regulating Bitcoin’s “funny business”
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde called on Wednesday for global regulation of Bitcoin, saying the digital currency had been used for money laundering activities ...
Jan 13, 2021
U.S. must reverse Trump course, make human rights central – HRW
By Cecile Mantovani and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden needs to restore the country's credibility on human rights at home and abroad, the head of New-York based Hu...
Jan 13, 2021
AstraZeneca says to release 2 million vaccine doses a week to UK by mid-February
LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca is scaling up releases of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the United Kingdom to the point where it expects to be providing 2 million a week by or before the middle of February...
Jan 13, 2021
