Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Firefighter who tried to help George Floyd to resume testimony at ex-officer's murder trial
By Jonathan Allen MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A Minneapolis firefighter whose offers of medical aid to George Floyd during his deadly arrest last May were rebuffed by police was due to return to the witne...
Mar 31, 2021
Biden tells migrants to stay put. Central Americans hear a different message
By Laura Gottesdiener LA TCNICA, GUATEMALA (Reuters) - Maritza Hernndez arrived at this remote Guatemalan village exhausted, with two young kids in tow and more than a thousand miles left to travel. S...
Mar 31, 2021
Ballot review enters second day in landmark Amazon union election
By Jeffrey Dastin and Mike Spector (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's landmark union election was set to resume Wednesday morning with a second session of reviewing ballots from employees in Alabama, who ar...
Mar 31, 2021
Google says 'not up to us' to dictate how news companies spend its $1 billion
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has reached licensing deals with over 600 news outlets around the world and is seeing a "huge increase" in users requesting more content from specific ...
Mar 31, 2021
IATA says travel pass app to launch on Apple mid-April
DUBAI (Reuters) - Global airline industry body IATA said on Wednesday a digital travel pass for COVID-19 test results and vaccine certificates would be launched on the Apple platform in mid-April. The...
Mar 31, 2021
Final Four set, a question left: Can anybody beat Gonzaga?
By JIM LITKE It's not easy to bury a team as good as USC, let alone in a half, no matter how easy Gonzaga made it look. Somehow, coach Mark Few called it in advance. While everyone was f...
Mar 31, 2021
SpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch in Texas: SpaceX
(Reuters) - An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. "We do appear to ha...
Mar 31, 2021
Taiwan to buy new U.S. air defence missiles to guard against China
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has decided to buy an upgraded version of Lockheed Martin Corp's Patriot surface-to-air missile, the air force said on Wednesday, as the island bolsters its forc...
Mar 31, 2021
More to be done, but Britain a model for racial equality: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is a country that should be seen as a "model for other white-majority countries", a review into inequality will say on Wednesday, but it is not a post-racial society and "ov...
Mar 31, 2021
Spain will use AstraZeneca vaccine for essential workers over 65
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has decided to extend AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccination to essential workers over 65 years old to protect a small group of people who have not yet retired, the health ministr...
Mar 31, 2021
