Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Facebook to launch new audio products
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is planning to launch in the coming months several audio products including podcast discovery, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday in an interview with Plat...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
Germany’s Laschet urges his CDU party board to back him as chancellor candidate – sources
BERLIN (Reuters) - The chairman of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), Armin Laschet, urged senior party members on Monday to end a week-long stand-off and back him as chancellor candidate of the con...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
Pandemic drives traditional burning of Swiss snowman into Alps
ANDERMATT, Switzerland (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic saw a traditional Swiss annual rite of spring, the burning of the Boeoegg snowman, moved to the remote Devil's Bridge in central Switzerland...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
BMW preliminary Q1 profit before tax surges 370%
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - BMW said on Monday that earnings before tax in the first quarter rose a preliminary 370%. The carmaker, citing strong sales growth in all regions and especially China, said group...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court sympathetic to Native Alaskans in COVID-19 aid dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday signaled sympathy toward allowing federal COVID-19 relief funds to go to specially created corporations for Native Alask...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
Tensions rise in Bahrain prison as inmates, families protest conditions
DUBAI (Reuters) - Activists said prisoners protesting conditions in a Bahraini jail were beaten in a security operation last weekend that authorities had described as a response to disobedience follow...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
U.S. Treasury names green financial adviser to new climate ‘czar’ post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Monday named climate change financial adviser John Morton to head the department's new "climate hub,' to foster green finance and use tax policy and financi...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
White House says it intends to raise cap on refugees by May 15 or sooner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that it had every intention of raising a cap on U.S. refugee admissions and would do so by May 15 if not sooner. President Joe Biden signed an ord...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
Italy court orders Vivendi to pay Mediaset 1.7 million euros, rejecting multi-billion damage claim
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court ruled on Monday that French media giant Vivendi pay Italian broadcaster Mediaset more than 1.7 million euros ($2 million) in damages - much less than sought - in a c...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
White House says Congress must act on police reform amid string of U.S. shootings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday it is incumbent on the U.S. Congress to act on police reform amid a string of shootings in the country. "The President has s...
Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021
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