Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Restored Chaplin films to be released in cinemas worldwide
LONDON (Reuters) - A hundred years since Charlie Chaplin directed and starred in his first feature-length film "The Kid", some of the silent comic's best-known movies are being restored to be released...
Mar 05, 2021
U.S. House panel probes four cos. over tax deductions, opioid settlements: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee has questioned four companies over their plans to use a tax provision passed in a COVID-19-related law to address their litigation ...
Mar 05, 2021
Rwanda becomes first African nation to use Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda began its COVID-19 vaccine campaign on Friday, becoming the first nation in Africa to use pharmaceutical company Pfizer's doses that require ultra-c...
Mar 05, 2021
Canada to authorize Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine: CBC News
(Reuters) - Health Canada will announce the approval of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, CBC News reported, citing sources. The vaccine has already been authorized for use i...
Mar 05, 2021
Prosecutor asks for hearing on shelving case against Colombia's Uribe
By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general on Friday asked for a hearing to possibly shelve an investigation into former President and Senator Alvaro Uribe's involvement in al...
Mar 05, 2021
Exclusive: Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source says
By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective again...
Mar 05, 2021
VW says electric car production in Spain hinges on EU support
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish automaker SEAT's parent company Volkswagen wants a firm commitment from Brussels to support a potential project to manufacture electric cars in Spain, the Ge...
Mar 05, 2021
More than a quarter of lawmakers worldwide are women, but parity 50 years away
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - More than a quarter of lawmakers worldwide are women after the proportion inched higher in 2020, but progress is so slow that it will take 50 years at the present rate...
Mar 05, 2021
Seventeen tonnes of cannabis resin bound for Libya seized in Niger
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the spokesman for the West African n...
Mar 05, 2021
U.S. designates Ukraine's Kolomoyskyy over alleged corruption: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy has been designated as ineligible to enter the United States over alleged corruption, the State Department said on Friday. "Whi...
Mar 05, 2021
