Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Famine looms in southern Madagascar, U.N.'s food agency says
(Corrects spelling of capital in para 2) GENEVA (Reuters) - Famine looms in southern Madagascar, where children are "starving" after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, the U.N.'s World Food Progr...
Apr 30, 2021
Global FDI hit 15-year low in 2020, China overtook U.S.: OECD
PARIS (Reuters) - Global foreign direct investment flows ebbed to a 15-year low last year and China, one of the few major economies to eke out growth, overtook the United States as the top destination...
Apr 30, 2021
Japan says Olympics must not burden medical systems
(Corrects advisory line. Adds Rakuten CEO's quote in paragraph 13, and Tokyo cases in final paragraph) TOKYO (Reuters) - The Olympics must not be a burden on medical systems, Japan's chief government ...
Apr 30, 2021
EU to charge Apple over its in-app payment system rules -source
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Antitrust regulators will on Friday charge iPhone Apple with anti-competitive behaviour by not allowing developers to inform users of other purchasing options outside of apps, a p...
Apr 30, 2021
France, Germany, Spain, Italy: condemn this week's killing of foreigners in Burkina Faso
PARIS (Reuters) - France, Germany, Spain and Italy on Friday condemned this week's killing of foreign citizens during an ambush in Burkina Faso. The joint statement - issued by the French foreign mini...
Apr 30, 2021
Germany to start returning Benin Bronzes from 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany aims to start returning Benin Bronzes to Nigeria next year, its foreign and culture ministries said, part of a growing trend to return cultural artefacts seized during the c...
Apr 30, 2021
Euro zone GDP shrinks less than expected in Q1, April inflation rises
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone economy shrank less than expected in the first three months of the year, preliminary data showed on Friday, while headline inflation picked up as expected on a surge...
Apr 30, 2021
Cambodians complain of lockdown hunger as outbreak takes toll on poor
By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Residents in Cambodia's capital gathered on Friday to demand food from the government, outraged at what they called inadequate aid distribution during a tough ...
Apr 30, 2021
Column: Killing rush hour with help from green bonds
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - Of all the post-pandemic futurology going on at the moment, the idea of using green bonds to facilitate the death of city rush hours will have few objections from wear...
Apr 30, 2021
Tonnes of dead fish wash up on shore of polluted Lebanese lake
By Alaa Kanaan QARAOUN, Lebanon (Reuters) - Tonnes of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a lake on Lebanon's Litani river, engulfing a nearby village in a pungent smell, in a disaster blamed on ...
Apr 30, 2021
