Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Contender to lead Biden EPA says agency should focus on environmental justice
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should strengthen its use of the federal Civil Rights Act to better to protect poor and minority communities from p...
Nov 12, 2020
K-pop’s TXT sing of pandemic’s toll on the young in ‘We Lost the Summer’
SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) describe their latest EP as a teen account of how the pandemic shattered their world, and they hope it resonates with young people everywhere...
Nov 12, 2020
IMF’s Georgieva says G20 should synchronize investments to achieve faster growth
(Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday called on G20 countries to synchronize their investments to rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic, saying thi...
Nov 12, 2020
War, not politics: Troubled election deepens tension in Myanmar’s Rakhine
By Shoon Naing YANGON (Reuters) - Yarzar Tun's whole family backed Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the landslide 2015 election that swept her to power. As fighting this year in western Ra...
Nov 12, 2020
Volkswagen to invest $233.5 million in motors output in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Mexico unit said on Thursday the German carmaker plans to invest $233.5 million in a new production line for motors at its plant in the central Mexican state of Gu...
Nov 12, 2020
Factbox: Peru’s presidential lineup: graft probes, suicide and impeachment
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru, the world's No.2 copper producer and for years one of Latin America's fastest growing economies, has seen a litany of presidents ousted from office or imprisoned...
Nov 12, 2020
Golf: Nicklaus clubs away question about his support for Trump
By Andrew Both AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Two weeks after wading into turbulent political waters by publicly supporting President Donald Trump in the U.S. election and warning the country against turnin...
Nov 12, 2020
Spain’s Catalonia to keep bars, restaurants shut another ten days to curb COVID-19
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Restaurants, bars and shopping malls will remain closed in Catalonia for at least another ten days to rein in the COVID-19 pandemic, regional officials said on Thursday. Unlike m...
Nov 12, 2020
Sweden plays down immunity hopes as second COVID-19 wave gathers force
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Immunity to COVID-19 in Sweden is likely lower than previously estimated, the country's top epidemiologist and architect of its unorthodox pandemic strategy said on Thursday, as ...
Nov 12, 2020
Russian court frees U.S. investor Calvey and colleagues from house arrest: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's supreme court has ruled that U.S. investor Michael Calvey and other executives of private equity firm Baring Vostok be released from house arrest, the RIA news agency repor...
Nov 12, 2020
