Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Burkina Faso detains four French civil servants, says diplomatic source
PARIS (Reuters) - Four French IT workers with diplomatic passports and visas have been arrested in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday, denying a media re...
Dec 20, 2023
Analysis-Riyadh reluctant to derail Iran detente over U.S. Red Sea taskforce
By Alexander Cornwell and Pesha Magid DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's name was conspicuously - perhaps surprisingly - absent from a list of countries the United States announced as part of its...
Dec 20, 2023
US proposes more limits on making money off children's data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big tech companies, like YouTube owner Alphabet among many others, would face further limits on how they use children's data to beef up profits under a proposal put out by the F...
Dec 20, 2023
French drugmaker Servier ordered to pay $471 million for Mediator scandal
PARIS (Reuters) - Drugmaker Servier must pay more than 430 million euros ($471 million) in connection with weight-loss pill Mediator, a French court ruled on Wednesday, saying the company was guilty o...
Dec 20, 2023
Fed's Harker open to lowering interest rates, but not imminently
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker on Wednesday said he still opposes any further U.S. central bank interest rate hikes, while signaling ope...
Dec 20, 2023
Toyota recalls 1 million US vehicles over sensor that could short circuit
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Toyota Motor said on Wednesday it will recall 1 million vehicles in the United States because a short circuit in a sensor could cause air bags not to deploy a...
Dec 20, 2023
Southwest Airlines' new pilot contract provides for 50% pay raise over 5 years
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pilots at Southwest Airlines will get about a 50% pay raise over a five-year period in their new contract, according to the details shared by their union on Wednesday. The Southwes...
Dec 20, 2023
Biden says 'no question' Trump backed insurrection
By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday there was "no question" his predecessor Donald Trump supported an insurrection, but that it was up to the ...
Dec 20, 2023
Factbox-Main elements of fiscal reforms agreed by EU governments
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers agreed on Wednesday changes to the EU's fiscal rules updating them to the post-pandemic realities of high public debt and the ...
Dec 20, 2023
Cuba's economy still shrinking, minister says
By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban economy minister Alejandro Gil said on Wednesday that the country's economy likely shrunk this year and a hoped-for turnaround was still provin...
Dec 20, 2023
