Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Honduran president target of U.S. investigation, court filings show
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States is investigating Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a new court filing reveals, upping pressure on a leader who prosecutors have already accused...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. educators wrangle over school re-opening
By Brendan O'Brien and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Educators in major cities including Chicago and Philadelphia on Monday called for strong COVID-19 safety protocols in their classrooms as those and ...
Feb 08, 2021
U.N. envoy, Iran's Zarif discuss how to end war in Yemen
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Nations Yemen mediator Martin Griffiths and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed on Monday how to make progress toward a nationwide ce...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations log biggest weekly drops since pandemic started
(Reuters) - The United States reported a 25% drop in new cases of COVID-19 to about 825,000 last week, the biggest fall since the pandemic started, although health officials said they were worried new...
Feb 08, 2021
Fed to weave 'inescapable' climate change risk into bank oversight
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is beginning to incorporate the impacts of global warming into its regulatory writ, following in the footsteps of its global peers, according to a pa...
Feb 08, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to keep deposition excerpt secret
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could threaten her criminal trial on charges she aided th...
Feb 08, 2021
France's coronavirus hospitalisations up for second day in a row
PARIS (Reuters) - France reported 4,317 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, down from 19,715 on Sunday and 4,347 last Monday as the case count trend remained steady, but hospital numbers increased...
Feb 08, 2021
Goldman appoints Swati Bhatia, David Stark to lead roles in consumer banking
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Monday appointed former PayPal executive Swati Bhatia and insider David Stark to leadership roles in its consumer banking unit, according to a memo seen by Reute...
Feb 08, 2021
Factbox: What we know about the South African variant of COVID-19
(Reuters) - South Africa halted the planned rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection from one ...
Feb 08, 2021
Darfur rebel leader heads Sudanese finance ministry following cabinet shake-up
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's prime minister has appointed veteran Darfur rebel group leader and Islamist Jibril Ibrahim as finance minister in a cabinet overhaul announced in a pre...
Feb 08, 2021
