Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Pandemic upends life for Ireland’s pub owners-cum-undertakers
By Clodagh Kilcoyne FETHARD, Ireland (Reuters) - As one of around 80 Irish publicans carrying on the tradition of doubling up as the local funeral director, Jasper Murphy has seen first hand how the p...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
‘You chop her’: Ugandan recalls brutal upbringing as LRA child soldier
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Louis Lakor was seven years old when Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army killed his family and kidnapped him to use as a child soldier. On Thursday the Internation...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
BoE’s Bailey says UK economy not as bad as rankings suggest
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday that Britain's economic performance compared with other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic was nowhere near as bad as off...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
Golf: Horsey goes on birdie blitz for Saudi International lead
(Reuters) - Englishman David Horsey fired a nine-under-par 61 for a one-shot lead over Scot Stephen Gallacher after the opening round of the European Tour's Saudi International on Thursday. Horsey sta...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
Beijing boycott not the answer says Canadian Olympic Committee
By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - A boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics would not bring home two Canadian men detained in China for more than two years or force a change to China's human rights re...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrats prepare to push through Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate were poised on Thursday to take a first step toward President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, in a marathon "vote-a-rama" sessio...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
High levels of toxic heavy metals found in some baby foods – report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional investigators found "dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals" in certain baby foods that could cause neurological damage, a House Oversight subcommittee said i...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
McKinsey reaches $573 million settlement with US states over role in opioid crisis
(Reuters) - McKinsey & Co, the consulting firm, has agreed to pay $573 million to resolve investigations by most U.S. states over its alleged role in "turbocharging" sales of opioids, fueling a nation...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
IOC’s Coates says Tokyo Olympics “100%” likely to go ahead – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - A senior official of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), John Coates, said it was "100%" likely that the Games would go ahead in Tokyo this summer, Nikkei Asia reported on Thu...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021
Global consumer discretionary funds see highest inflow in nearly six years
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy (Reuters) - Funds worldwide that track consumer discretionary sectors have lured the highest money in nearly six years in January, Refinitiv data showed, on hopes that the ...
Syndicated Content Feb 04, 2021

