Author Archives: Syndicated Content
S.Africa's new COVID cases cross 10,000 for first time since January
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases on Wednesday reported 10,017 new COVID-19 cases, the first day since January the institute has reported more than 1...
May 11, 2022
Sounds of Ukrainian counter-offensive echo in ruined village near Russia's border
(Note profane language in 17th paragraph) By Jonathan Landay VILKHIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - The near-constant crump of shellfire washed over this battered hamlet on Wednesday, testifying to fierce fig...
May 11, 2022
Trump must pay $110,000 fine, meet other conditions to purge contempt, judge says
By Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump must pay a $110,000 fine to the New York state attorney and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court or...
May 11, 2022
Barrick boosts stocks at mines to weather supply chain storm, CEO says
By Helen Reid CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Barrick Gold Corp has nearly doubled its inventory of some key supplies at mines to weather the disruptions caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Chief Executive M...
May 11, 2022
U.S. lawmakers to examine infant formula shortage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers plan to hold a hearing this month on shortages of infant formula, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Wednesday, calling the situation "increasingly al...
May 11, 2022
Golf-Koepka withdraws from final PGA Championship tune-up event
(Reuters) - Brooks Koepka's hopes of playing a tune-up event ahead of next week's PGA Championship ended as the four-time major champion withdrew from the AT&T Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas, on Wedn...
May 11, 2022
Miners turn to bacteria and other new ways to leach copper from waste rock
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Ltd, Freeport-McMoRan Inc and other global miners, spurred by rising prices and demand, are deploying a raft of new leaching technologies that can extract low ...
May 11, 2022
Guinea opposition parties reject junta's proposed 39-month transition timeline
CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea's main opposition parties have rejected the ruling military junta's proposed 39-month democratic transition timeline, they said in a statement on Wednesday. Colonel Mamady Do...
May 11, 2022
Putin does not want to take on NATO - Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to militarily take on the NATO alliance, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday, as...
May 11, 2022
Russian weekly inflation eases further after sharp spike
(Reuters) - Russia's weekly inflation rate eased further in early May, data from statistics service Rosstat showed on Wednesday, after spiking sharply soon after Russia began what it calls a "special ...
May 11, 2022
