Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sweden registers record 7,240 new COVID-19 cases
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy placed it in the global spotlight, registered a record 7,240 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Health Agency statistics showed. The incr...
Nov 20, 2020
ECB has no mandate for direct role in climate change fight: Weidmann
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has no democratic mandate to play a direct role in fighting climate change and greater activism could risk undermining its independence, German Bundesba...
Nov 20, 2020
Russian commuter found stabbed to death after quarrel over face masks
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A commuter in the Russian city of St. Petersburg was found stabbed to death after an altercation on a bus with two passengers who refused to wear anti-COVID medical masks, the Inter...
Nov 20, 2020
EU plans tight car CO2 limits under green finance rules
By Kate Abnett and Nick Carey BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Car manufacturers will need to meet tight emissions limits for their activities to be classed as a sustainable investment under proposed Europ...
Nov 20, 2020
Lebanon hires firm to clear dangerous material from shattered Beirut port
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's authorities signed a contract this month with a German company to clear dangerous material stored for more than a decade at Beirut port, the site of a seismic blast in Aug...
Nov 20, 2020
UK PM raises Rohingya concerns in call with Myanmar leader
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised the UK's ongoing concerns over the Rohingya crisis and the conflict in Rakhine when he spoke by phone to Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung ...
Nov 20, 2020
France’s second COVID wave hasn’t peaked, but light at end of tunnel: adviser
By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) - The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to peak in France but the outlook is improving with the potential arrival of vaccines in the coming months...
Nov 20, 2020
TSX futures down as coronavirus cases spike
(Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock index fell on Friday, tracking Wall Street, as rising global coronavirus cases and worries over fading U.S. stimulus dented sentiment. In a surprise move on...
Nov 20, 2020
ECB must incorporate climate change into policy approach: Villeroy
PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to address climate change in its approach to monetary policy, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday. He stopped short of calling ...
Nov 20, 2020
COVID-19 infections have levelled off in England: ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of COVID-19 infections in England appears to have levelled off in recent weeks, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday. The ONS said daily COVID in...
Nov 20, 2020
