Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turkey's Erdogan quits European treaty on violence against women
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country's official gazette said on Saturday, despite calls from campaigners who ...
Mar 19, 2021
Colombia's President Duque offers to receive AstraZeneca vaccine to show safety
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Ivan Duque on Friday offered to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca to demonstrate its safety, following concerns over bl...
Mar 19, 2021
Samsung's Lee receives appendix surgery during detention: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee, detained for a two and a half-year sentence of bribery and other charges since January, received emergency surgery for a burst appendix ...
Mar 19, 2021
New U.S. trade 'czar' Tai vows to promote equitable growth, give workers more say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai vowed on Friday to leverage trade to help the U.S. economy recover from the coronavirus crisis by focusing on policies that promoted ...
Mar 19, 2021
Ten Iranian nationals charged with evading U.S. sanctions
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged 10 Iranian nationals on Friday over an alleged long-running scheme to dodge U.S. sanctions on Tehran by disguising $300 million in tran...
Mar 19, 2021
Administrators lay off 440 workers at collapsed lender Greensill: Guardian
(Reuters) - More than a week after British financing company Greensill Capital collapsed into administration, 440 workers have been laid off in London and Cheshire, Guardian newspaper reported https:/...
Mar 19, 2021
Tears and outrage: Victims of Georgia spa killings remembered by loved ones
By Rich McKay and Alexandra Ulmer ACWORTH, Ga. (Reuters) - Clutching a bouquet of flowers, Jami Webb wept alongside her fiance Kevin Chen at a makeshift memorial set up in front of Young's Asian Massa...
Mar 19, 2021
Trump's Florida resort partially closed, workers quarantined after coronavirus outbreak: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parts of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, golf resort have been temporarily closed because of a coronavirus outbreak, according to two sources familiar ...
Mar 19, 2021
Ecuador health minister resigns after less than 3 weeks as prosecutors probe vaccine rollout
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's health minister has resigned less than three weeks on the job, the Andean country's government said on Friday, as prosecutors investigate allegations of favoritism in the r...
Mar 19, 2021
San Francisco Fed sets diversity goal for boards, councils
By Ann Saphir SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank on Friday set a five-year goal for achieving diversity on its boards and advisory councils, whose members help shape the ...
Mar 19, 2021
