Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Britain records 18,213 new COVID-19 cases, 696 deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 18,213 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday and 696 deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the virus, according to official data. The deaths fig...
Nov 25, 2020
Canada pension funds with combined $1.2 trillion under management ask companies to standardize ESG reporting
By Maiya Keidan TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's eight biggest pension funds on Wednesday threw their weight behind global efforts to improve corporate sustainability reporting, urging companies and their...
Nov 25, 2020
American woman charged with hiding money transfers to Syria-based militants
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to transfer money to Islamist militants in Syria connected to the Nus...
Nov 25, 2020
More than 90 tonnes of cocaine seized in 29-country operation
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - The 29-country anti-drug trafficking Orion Campaign seized more than 90 tonnes of cocaine over about six weeks earlier this year, Colombian President Ivan Duque...
Nov 25, 2020
Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million infections – Reuters tally
By Shaina Ahluwalia (Reuters) - The global tally of confirmed coronavirus cases hit 60 million on Wednesday, with the pace of new infections accelerating and the United States reporting record numbers...
Nov 25, 2020
Europe’s largest tech conference to return as in-person event in 2021
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest technology conference, the Web Summit, will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive in-person event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic fo...
Nov 25, 2020
Reduced to meeting online, airlines vow to keep fighting
By Laurence Frost PARIS (Reuters) - For an industry that prides itself on bringing people together, it was a particular humiliation for airlines to have to resort to video conferencing for their annua...
Nov 25, 2020
Iran swaps jailed British-Australian academic with Iranians held abroad: TV
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has exchanged a jailed British-Australian academic, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, with three Iranians who had been detained abroad, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reporte...
Nov 25, 2020
Salesforce has approached Slack with acquisition offer: source
By Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) - Cloud-based software company Salesforce.com Inc has approached workplace messaging app Slack Technologies Inc with an acquisition offer, a source told Reuters on Wednes...
Nov 25, 2020
Jailed Saudi women’s rights activists given rare court appearance
By Raya Jalabi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Four jailed Saudi women's rights activists were given a rare appearance in court on Wednesday, the family of one of them said, as the kingdom's human rights record fa...
Nov 25, 2020
