Author Archives: Syndicated Content
USTR says Tai, Canadian counterpart to pursue high level trade meeting with Mexico
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai agreed on Monday in a call with her Canadian counterpart to pursue a ministerial-level meeting of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement'...
Mar 22, 2021
Bulgaria expels two Russian diplomats over suspected espionage
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria expelled two Russian diplomats on Monday for suspected espionage after prosecutors charged six people, including current and former military intelligence officers, with spyi...
Mar 22, 2021
EU plan helped 30 million people keep jobs in 2020: EU report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A scheme based on cheap European Union loans helped up to 30 million people keep jobs in 18 EU countries last year when the coronavirus pandemic froze economies across the bloc, s...
Mar 22, 2021
Scottish leader Sturgeon did not break ministerial code of conduct, inquiry finds
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did not break a ministerial code of conduct in her handling of sexual harassment complaints against her predecessor Alex Salmond, an indepe...
Mar 22, 2021
Sweden plans climate-adjusted airline take-off and landing fees
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden plans to rejig take-off and landing fees for aircraft so that they correspond to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from different types of plane and fuel, the governm...
Mar 22, 2021
EU to offer gas plants a green finance label under certain conditions: draft
By Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union plans to label some gas power plants as sustainable investments, a draft document seen by Reuters showed, after an initial propo...
Mar 22, 2021
UK's daily COVID-19 death toll falls to 17, a six-month low
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's daily death toll from COVID-19 fell to 17 on Monday, the lowest figure in about six months, official data showed. Figures showed 17 people had died within 28 da...
Mar 22, 2021
Britain imposes sanctions on Chinese officials, company over Xinjiang
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain imposed sanctions on Monday on four Chinese officials and a construction company over human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang, part of coo...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court leans toward reining in unions in property rights case
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared ready to further curb the power of organized labor in the United States by rolling back a decades-old California regulation that l...
Mar 22, 2021
Turkish markets feel the heat after central bank shakeup
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) - The sacking of Turkey's hawkish central bank chief over the weekend has jolted financial markets, with investors rapidly taking bets of...
Mar 22, 2021
