Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Burkina Faso says it killed about 100 militants in operation with Niger
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's armed forces killed about 100 militants in a joint operation with Niger between Nov. 25 and Dec. 9 in the two countries' border zone, the Burkinabe army said. Th...
Dec 14, 2021
Canada to outline new forecasts and fiscal situation as inflation surges
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government will outline new fiscal and economic forecasts in a document to be released on Tuesday as inflation surges and s...
Dec 14, 2021
Will an inflation-fighting Fed break its vow on jobs?
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - With the Federal Reserve expected to soon adopt an inflation-fighting posture, it might seem at a glance as though the U.S. central bank will have to jettison its goal of bro...
Dec 14, 2021
Peru's poor Andean hamlets, backed by state, unleash anger at mines
By Marcelo Rochabrun PISACCASA, Peru (Reuters) - Gabino Leon is angry, and he is not alone. The farmer in Peru's southern Apurimac region watches each day as hundreds of trucks carrying copper roar pa...
Dec 14, 2021
Online gambling sites lose bid to access Swiss market - court
ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss court has blocked requests by foreign online gambling operators to access the Swiss market, which gaming officials have limited since 2019 to Swiss-approved games of chance....
Dec 14, 2021
U.S. Congress to vote on debt-limit hike, averting default risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is expected to vote on Tuesday to raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit, ending a months-long standoff between Republicans and Democrats tha...
Dec 14, 2021
UK looking at vaccinating children as young as five, Lim says
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's scientific vaccine advisory group is discussing whether or not to advise children as young as five receive COVID vaccines, the chair of Britain's vaccine gr...
Dec 14, 2021
Analysis-U.S. rollout of free preschool could put more moms into U.S. workforce
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" spending plan includes a potentially life-changing plan to make universal preschool free nationwide, making ...
Dec 14, 2021
Democratic proposal for State Department anti-Islamophobia office to get House committee vote
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic proposal for a U.S. State Department office addressing anti-Muslim bias will get a procedural vote in a House committee on Tuesday, after a Repub...
Dec 14, 2021
Five takeaways from the prosecution's case at Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Prosecutors rested their case in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial on Friday after two weeks of emotional testimony from four women who say Maxwell set them up for sexual en...
Dec 14, 2021
