Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Dubai cancels non-essential surgery as COVID-19 cases surge
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's health authority on Wednesday ordered hospitals to cancel non-essential surgery for the next month after a surge in coronavirus cases in the Middle East's tourism and busines...
Jan 20, 2021
UK's Johnson says record COVID-19 death figures are appalling
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday's record deaths from COVID-19 are "appalling" and the death toll is likely to keep rising in the next few weeks because of the sp...
Jan 20, 2021
Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, captures 'bruised, but whole' U.S. at Biden, Harris inauguration
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet in U.S. history to mark the transition of presidential power, offered a hopeful vision for a deeply divided country on Wednesda...
Jan 20, 2021
Proud Boys member among the latest in wave of arrests over Capitol riots
By Sarah N. Lynch and Brad Heath WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Florida-based member of the right-wing Proud Boys group for his alleged role in breaching the U.S. Capitol on Ja...
Jan 20, 2021
Spanish regional health chief resigns after jumping vaccine queue
MADRID (Reuters) - The top health official in the Spanish region of Murcia resigned on Wednesday after admitting he had received a coronavirus vaccine despite not belonging to any priority group desig...
Jan 20, 2021
Canada annual inflation rate slows in December amid renewed COVID-19 restrictions
By Steve Scherer and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate slowed to 0.7% in December from 1.0% the previous month amid a new round of COVID-19 lockdowns and declining costs o...
Jan 20, 2021
Loeffler's WNBA stint nears end as Dream close to being sold
(Reuters) - A sale of the Atlanta Dream is close to being finalised, a deal that would end former Republican U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler's contentious stint as co-owner of the team, the WNBA said on W...
Jan 20, 2021
In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The recently updated website for President Joe Biden's White House carried an invitation for tech specialists savvy enough to find it. Hidden in the HTML code ...
Jan 20, 2021
France reports 26,784 new COVID-19 cases, highest since November 18
PARIS (Reuters) - The French health ministry reported 26,784 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, up from 23,608 on Tuesday and 23,852 last Wednesday. Wednesday's tally was the highest...
Jan 20, 2021
Domenicali says F1 could reduce and rotate races in future
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One is still aiming for a record 23 grands prix this year but could have fewer in future with some held in rotation, the sport's new chief executive Stefano ...
Jan 20, 2021
