Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Mnuchin says he expects to fund U.S. government to early December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said a deal between the White House and Congress would fund the federal government through the beginning of December and that de...
Sep 06, 2020
Saudi Arabia sentences three to death over links to 2017 Jeddah attack
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi court has sentenced three people to death for their involvement in an attack in Jeddah when two men blew themselves up after a shootout with police, state-run Al Ekhbariya te...
Sep 06, 2020
U.S.-Canada towns marooned by border closure brace for winter trapped in isolation
By Moira Warburton VANCOUVER (Reuters) - They are small towns along the Canadian-American border, marooned by geography, whose residents' lives have already been upended by the border closure due to t...
Sep 06, 2020
‘One vaccine isn’t enough’: Mexico aims for its own coronavirus fix
By Anthony Esposito and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is working to produce its own COVID-19 vaccines and could have one ready by next spring, according to a researcher coordinating l...
Sep 06, 2020
Senegal activates emergency floods aid plan after downpour
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall has activated an emergency aid plan after a seven-hour downpour caused widespread floods. Water Minister Serigne Mbaye Thiam told national television ...
Sep 06, 2020
Czech president tries to tamp down China anger after speaker’s Taiwan trip
PRAGUE (Reuters) - President Milos Zeman sought on Sunday to defuse a row with China over a visit by the head of the Czech Senate to Taiwan, calling the speaker's trip a "boyish provocation". Senate s...
Sep 06, 2020
Evidence of further surveillance at Credit Suisse mounts up – SonntagsZeitung
ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse may have spied on more employees under its former chief executive Tidjane Thiam, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported on Sunday, citing evidence of two further ins...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia to receive first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 – PM to say
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will receive the first doses of an AstraZeneca and Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 if trials prove successful, after Canberra agreed a ...
Sep 06, 2020
Nigeria to deliver aid by air in conflict-hit northeast
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's government plans to deliver humanitarian aid supplies by air to people in remote communities in parts of the northeast that have been ravaged by the decade-lon...
Sep 06, 2020
France’s Le Drian says it is urgent to reach deal on Brexit
PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said in Sunday it was urgent to reach an agreement on Brexit trade talks and he blamed the stalemate on Britain's attitude. "The British pe...
Sep 06, 2020
