Author Archives: Syndicated Content
'The wait is over': Bangladesh begins COVID-19 vaccinations
By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive with the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine on Sunday, aiming to inoculate 3.5 million people in the first...
Feb 07, 2021
After a decade of change in Myanmar, fear of the past drives anti-coup protests
(Reuters) - A communications blackout, the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi without word, wild rumours fed by a paucity of information. All recalled the darkest days of a succession of military juntas th...
Feb 07, 2021
Golf: Johnson holds on to clinch second Saudi International title
(Reuters) - World number one Dustin Johnson carded his worst round of the tournament but did enough to win the Saudi International on Sunday for a second time in three years. The American managed only...
Feb 07, 2021
Bank of Israel buys $6.8 billion of forex in January, reserves jump to new record
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Bank of Israel said on Sunday it bought $6.832 billion of foreign currency in January, helping to weaken the shekel from a 24-year peak and taking forex reserves to a new rec...
Feb 07, 2021
Exports from UK to EU down 68% since Brexit trade deal, say hauliers
LONDON (Reuters) - Exports from Britain to the European Union fell by 68% in January as trade was disrupted after the end of a transition period following Britain's departure from the European Union, ...
Feb 07, 2021
Olympics: Nearly 60% of Japanese think Mori unfit for role as Tokyo 2020 chief - poll
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly 60% of people in Japan think Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori is unfit for his role as head of the Olympics organising committee, according to a poll conducte...
Feb 07, 2021
At anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel, pink is the new black
By Corinna Kern JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It's Saturday night in Jerusalem and a group of protesters dressed in fluorescent pink are preparing to join a weekly demonstration outside Israeli Prime Minister...
Feb 07, 2021
China issues new anti-monopoly rules targeting its tech giants
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's market regulator released new anti-monopoly guidelines on Sunday that target internet platforms, tightening existing restrictions faced by the country's tech giants. The ne...
Feb 07, 2021
EU ambassador to Switzerland says treaty talks finished - Blick
ZURICH (Reuters) - The European Union will not reopen parts of a stalled bilateral treaty with Switzerland, the EU ambassador to the Alpine republic said in an interview with newspaper Blick, taking a...
Feb 07, 2021
Turkey jails four pending trial over university protests: prosecutor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Four people were formally arrested as part of an investigation into protests against President Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a rector at one of the country's top universities, a...
Feb 07, 2021
