Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sweden’s nursing home COVID failures haunt relatives left behind
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - In April, a nurse at a Stockholm home for the elderly told Helen Gluckman that her 83-year-old father would likely not live for long. He had been stricken by CO...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. agency affirms it will not allow mid-air mobile phone use
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Monday it had ended a 2013 regulatory proceeding that had sought to lift the ban on the use of mobile phones while in flight on ...
Nov 30, 2020
Argentines celebrate ‘eternal love’ for Maradona with tattoos
By Ueslei Marcelino and Leonardo Benassatto BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Under his shirt, pizza shop owner Guillermo Rodriguez is a walking shrine to Diego Maradona. His entire back is covered in tattoos ...
Nov 30, 2020
Singer Rita Ora apologises for breaking lockdown rules with party
LONDON (Reuters) - British pop star Rita Ora apologised on Monday after she admitted she had attended a party to celebrate her 30th birthday which broke England's strict COVID-19 lockdown laws. Ora sa...
Nov 30, 2020
Colombia inflation expectations fall amid still-weak demand
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia inflation expectations for this year and next were down compared with previous estimates in a Reuters survey on Monday, as domestic demand remains weak ...
Nov 30, 2020
Sberbank bets on e-commerce in expansion beyond banking
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest lender Sberbank expects its non-financial businesses to generate 60% of company revenues by 2030, with e-commerce at the heart of a new three-year strategy, unveile...
Nov 30, 2020
French government drops draft law curbing filming of police officers
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling pa...
Nov 30, 2020
No COVID-19 vaccine, no normal life, UK minister suggests
LONDON (Reuters) - People who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 could find normal life curtailed as restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports venues could block entry to those who don't have proof they are in...
Nov 30, 2020
In rebuke to Orban, Merkel says rule of law was no backdoor addition
BERLIN (Reuters) - Suggestions that a requirement of adherence to the rule of law were introduced into proposals for the next European Union budget secretly, over the objections of some leaders, are n...
Nov 30, 2020
Main economic boost from COVID vaccines will come later, BoE’s Tenreyro says
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said the main economic boost from progress on COVID-19 vaccines would only come when the jabs are rolled out, and the BoE should prevent...
Nov 30, 2020
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