Author Archives: Syndicated Content
In COVID-19 election, Dutch voters ask: Can I keep the pencil?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An election campaign dominated by COVID-19 and social distancing culminated in a pressing question for Dutch voters on Wednesday: do I get to keep the polling booth red pencil? A...
Mar 17, 2021
Meet the woman shaping post-pandemic cybersex
By Stuart McDill LONDON (Reuters) - Interest in cybersex is soaring as the pandemic has left people subject to lockdowns and travel bans and unable to seek intimacy in the usual ways, according to exp...
Mar 17, 2021
Benefits outweigh the risks of AstraZeneca COVID shot as review continues: WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine safety panel said on Wednesday that it considers that the benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine outweigh its ri...
Mar 17, 2021
Brazil government raises 2021 inflation forecast to 4.4%
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economy ministry raised its inflation outlook for this year to 4.4% on Wednesday, the same day the central bank is widely expected to raise interest rat...
Mar 17, 2021
Aid to stave off devastating Yemen famine slow to reach needy
DUBAI (Reuters) - Aid agencies have so far received only $374 million of the $3.85 billion the United Nations says is needed this year for Yemen to avert what threatens to become the world's worst fam...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. House Republicans expected to vote on ending earmarks ban, sources say
By David Morgan and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to vote on Wednesday on whether to reverse their self-imposed ban on earmarks -...
Mar 17, 2021
Political role under fire in European AstraZeneca vaccine suspensions
By Douglas Busvine and Ludwig Burger BERLIN (Reuters) - The decision by more than a dozen European countries to suspend AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot faced deepening scrutiny on Wednesday, amid concerns...
Mar 17, 2021
Biden says Major, his German Shepherd, is out of the dog house
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden says his rescue dog, a German Shepherd named Major, is being trained after an incident last week but has not been banished from the White House, adding the p...
Mar 17, 2021
Israel's Incredibuild raises $140 million in Insight-led funding round
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Incredibuild, which helps companies speed up their software development process, said on Wednesday it had raised $140 million in a private funding round led by U.S. vent...
Mar 17, 2021
Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo
By Aidan Lewis and Mohamed Abdellah CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is racing to prepare a grandiose new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead ...
Mar 17, 2021
