Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Tiger Woods may have hit accelerator instead of brake in high-speed crash
By Sharon Bernstein and Maria Caspani (Reuters) -Tiger Woods was traveling more than 40 miles per hour (64 km per hour) above the speed limit when he lost control of his car, causing the crash that se...
Apr 7, 2021
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a dat...
Apr 7, 2021
‘They want us to leave’: Russian fines pile pressure on U.S. broadcaster RFE/RL
By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court fined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty $70,000 on Wednesday for flouting its foreign agent legislation, a move the U.S. broadcaster said was part of ...
Apr 7, 2021
White House says U.S. not discussing boycott of Beijing Olympics
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. is not discussing a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to alleged human rights abuses, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wedne...
Apr 7, 2021
ECB speeds up money printing in March, focuses on Germany
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank sped up the pace of its emergency bond-buying programme by 22.7% in March despite a slowdown in the runup to Easter, with Germany the biggest beneficiar...
Apr 7, 2021
Lebanon’s President Aoun holds central bank responsible for crisis
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday the central bank bore responsibility for the country's financial collapse and for stalling an audit which is a key condition for fo...
Apr 7, 2021
Fed’s balance sheet size is far from hitting any constraints: Daly
(Reuters) - The size of the U.S. central bank's balance sheet, now more than $7 trillion, is "far" from hitting any limits, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said on Wednesday, no...
Apr 7, 2021
Tanzania goes back on decision to lift media ban
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania revised a decision to lift a ban on all media in the country, clarifying that only online television would benefit from the measure, a government spokesman said in a tweet...
Apr 7, 2021
Kim Kardashian joins the billionaire club
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kim Kardashian has added billionaire to her resume. The cosmetics and shapewear businesswoman, who launched her career off the reality TV series "Keeping Up with The Kardashian...
Apr 7, 2021
Madrid residents line up for AstraZeneca shot despite blood clot link
By Guillermo Martinez and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid residents were broadly confident about AstraZeneca's coronavirus shot on Wednesday despite European and British regulators finding a...
Apr 7, 2021
