Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Global cash crude prices ease off record premiums to futures
(Reuters) - Cash prices for key crude oil grades produced in the Middle East, Europe and the United States have slumped in recent weeks from record premiums to futures benchmarks, as refiners balk at ...
Apr 05, 2022
Greece offers second COVID booster for people over 60
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will offer a second COVID-19 booster dose for people aged 60 and above, at least four months after the previous shot, Greek health officials said on Tuesday. "The relative pl...
Apr 05, 2022
China's envoy to U.N. calls images of dead civilians from Bucha 'very disturbing'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The reports and images showing civilian deaths in Ukrainian city of Bucha are "very disturbing", China's ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday, but added that the...
Apr 05, 2022
Russian draft law paves way for fast retaliation against foreign media
LONDON (Reuters) - News organisations from countries that "discriminate" against Russian media could have their Russian operations promptly shut down under a draft law proposed by a new Russian parlia...
Apr 05, 2022
World may be on cusp of new inflationary era, BIS central bank group says
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The world is facing a new era of higher inflation and interest rates as deteriorating ties between the West, Russia and China and COVID after-effects drive globalisati...
Apr 05, 2022
Public accounting oversight board sanctions KPMG's ex-vice chair
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sanctioned KPMG LLP's former vice chair of audit "for failure reasonably to supervise," the organization said in a statement on...
Apr 05, 2022
In heated exchange, US defense chief defends Ukraine response
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended America's response to the war in Ukraine on Tuesday during a heated exchange with a Republican lawmaker who accused the Pentagon of ...
Apr 05, 2022
Peru PM says lockdown could spread beyond capital to curb fuel protests
By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's prime minister said on Tuesday that a mandatory lockdown in Lima aimed to curb violent protests over surging fuel and fertilizer prices could also be put i...
Apr 05, 2022
Scotiabank CEO criticizes government bank tax, misses AGM due to COVID
By Nichola Saminather TORONTO (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia Chief Executive Officer Brian Porter criticised the Canadian government's proposed bank tax in prepared remarks to shareholders on Tuesday...
Apr 05, 2022
Ukraine's ombudswoman says up to 300 bodies may be in Bucha mass grave
(Reuters) - Ukrainian human rights ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said on Tuesday between 150 and 300 bodies may be in a mass grave by a church in the town of Bucha, where Ukraine accuses Russian troop...
Apr 05, 2022
