Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Italy's Conte struggles to secure support in Senate showdown
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Efforts by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to build a new majority in parliament after a junior partner quit his coalition floundered at the weekend as severa...
Jan 17, 2021
U.S. Vice president-elect Harris set to resign Senate seat on Monday
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California will resign from the Senate on Monday in preparation for her inauguration as Joe Biden's vice president on Wednesday, according to...
Jan 17, 2021
Ugandan opposition party says it will challenge presidential election result
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine's party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni's election victory and condemned what it called the house ar...
Jan 17, 2021
Lebanon inks final deal for 2.1 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's caretaker health minister signed a final deal on Sunday to secure 2.1 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine as the country battles a steep rise in infections...
Jan 17, 2021
The fight to avert one last execution on Trump's watch
By Jonathan Allen TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Reuters) - On Thursday evening, Dustin Higgs, 48, waited in a cell on death row at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, his scheduled execution less than 24...
Jan 17, 2021
UK must not do trade deals with rights abusers, foreign minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should not engage in free trade with countries that abuse human rights, but proposals that the country's courts should decide whether genocide has been committed by trade pa...
Jan 17, 2021
Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen: report, company filings
By Ellen Francis, Tom Bergin and Maria Tsvetkova BEIRUT/LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian bus...
Jan 17, 2021
Israel economy likely to grow 4.6% in 2021, says finance minister
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's economy is likely to grow by 4.6% this year, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday in a forecast reliant on continuation of rapid COVID-19 inoculations an...
Jan 17, 2021
Lebanon patriarch tells feuding president and PM-designate to reconcile
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric has urged President Michel Aoun to set up a reconciliation meeting with Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri to form a cabinet and end the country'...
Jan 17, 2021
Bayer aims to help CureVac with COVID-19 vaccine output, says CEO
BERLIN (Reuters) - German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is examining whether it can help CureVac to produce its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Sunday. Though i...
Jan 17, 2021
