Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Paire slams Australian Open for 'shameful' quarantine treatment
(Reuters) - Frenchman Benoit Paire criticised Australian Open organisers for their "shameful" treatment of players during quarantine ahead of the Grand Slam event and said lack of training due to stri...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Rough road ahead for Latam and Caribbean economies, says IMF
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Latin American and Caribbean economic activity will not return to pre-pandemic levels of output until 2023 and GDP per capita will catch up only in 2025, later than other parts of...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Mature democracies should shun political personality cults, pope says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Mature democracies must shun the temptation to glorify an individual political personality and make sure that the rule of law prevails over partisan interests, Pope Francis sa...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Brazil's 2021 inflation outlook rises to highest in almost a year, survey shows
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The outlook for Brazilian inflation rose for a fifth consecutive week, a central bank survey of economists showed on Monday, closer to the bank's central target for the year. The ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Questions linger as ailing Nadal begins bid for Grand Slam record
(Reuters) - Rafa Nadal begins his pursuit of a record 21st Grand Slam title under an injury cloud against Serbian Laslo Djere on Tuesday, with home favourite Ash Barty also in the spotlight on the sec...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Seven years on, Yazidi survivor buries father slain by Islamic State
By Charlotte Bruneau KOJO, Iraq (Reuters) - Thikran Kamiran Yousif was 15 when Islamic State fighters surrounded his village in northern Iraq, rounded up residents and slaughtered several hundred of t...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
A shipmaster is buried in Colombia, but his widow can't prove his death in Venezuela
By Angus Berwick (Reuters) - A year after a Colombian oil tanker captain was murdered by Venezuela's military, his widow says she still cannot claim his pension to support their two sons as the Venezu...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Chinese regulators call in Tesla over customer complaints
By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese government officials have met representatives from U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc over reports from consumers about battery fires, unexpected ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Elon Musk puts up $100 million for global carbon reduction competition
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc boss and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is offering a $100 million prize in a four-year global competition to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmospher...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
Tesla stashes $1.5 billion in bitcoin, to accept as payment for cars soon
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc said on Monday it had invested around $1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for its cars and other products with it in the near future, prompting a 7% j...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2021
