Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Basketball: Barcelona deny abandoning player in Istanbul
BARCELONA (Reuters) - FC Barcelona's basketball team have denied they refused to allow their player Thomas Heurtel to board their plane after a Euroleague defeat by Anadolu Efes in Istanbul on Tuesday...
Dec 23, 2020
Dutch prosecutors asked to check whether Dutch soldiers killed Afghan civilians
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Defence Ministry said on Wednesday it had asked prosecutors to look into a report by a war veteran that Dutch soldiers fired at and may have killed civilians in the Afg...
Dec 23, 2020
Ninety-year-old woman first in Switzerland to get COVID-19 shot
LUCERNE (Reuters) - A 90-year-old woman in the canton of Lucerne on Wednesday became the first person in Switzerland to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, as the Swiss military distributed jus...
Dec 23, 2020
German airline Lufthansa reaches deal with pilots on cost savings
BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa and its pilots have reached an agreement that secures jobs until end-March 2022 and could help reduce costs by as much as 450 million euros ($548 million), pilots' union V...
Dec 23, 2020
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research – documents
By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at l...
Dec 23, 2020
Amazon to face U.S. union push in year ahead
By Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - In 2021, Amazon.com Inc is poised to face a renewed challenge from groups it has long countered: unions. Energized by protests at Amazon's U.S. warehouses ...
Dec 23, 2020
Jamie Foxx puts some ‘Soul’ into Christmas at the movies
By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Soul" takes animated movies to new heights, not just with its philosophical themes about the meaning of life but as the first in Pixar's 25-year feature film his...
Dec 23, 2020
With U.S. Senate at stake, Black voters loom large for Democratic candidates in Georgia
By Joseph Ax and Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - With hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into twin Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections to determine control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and a constell...
Dec 23, 2020
Explainer-U.S. vaccine rollout’s next challenge: Verifying who is ‘essential’
By Tina Bellon and Melissa Fares (Reuters) - As U.S. industries push for their workers to receive early access to COVID-19 vaccines, local health departments and pharmacies face the challenge of verif...
Dec 23, 2020
Global cargo logjam deepens, delaying goods bound for retailers, automakers
By Lisa Baertlein and Jonathan Saul LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon seller Bernie Thompson shifted half of his production out of China to reduce his business risks and still found himself in the...
Dec 23, 2020
