Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Africa's CDC urges more COVID-19 tests, masks, as continent's cases top 500,000
NAIROBI (Reuters) - African countries urgently need to scale up coronavirus testing and the use of face masks, a regional disease control body said on Thursday, as the epidemic gains traction across t...
Jul 09, 2020
ECB will be as innovative as needed with policy tools, Villeroy says
PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is prepared to get more innovative with its monetary tools if necessary, ECB Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday. "To fulf...
Jul 09, 2020
Russian activists planning anti-Putin protest detained by authorities: opposition
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Russian activists involved in a campaign against what they say are President Vladimir Putin's illegal plans to remain in power were detained by autho...
Jul 09, 2020
UK on course to borrow 350 billion pounds in 2020/21, IFS says
LONDON (Reuters) - British government borrowing is on course to surge to around 350 billion pounds ($442 billion) this year following the latest spending measures announced by finance minister Rishi S...
Jul 09, 2020
Alpine skiing: Norway's 1992 Olympic champion Jagge dead at 54
(Reuters) - Norway's 1992 Olympic slalom champion Finn Christian Jagge, who beat Italian Alberto Tomba to gold at the Albertville Games, has died at the age of 54, the Norwegian Sports Federation anno...
Jul 09, 2020
Mystics' Delle Donne awaiting risk assessment
(Reuters) - The WNBA's Most Valuable Player Elena Delle Donne says she is awaiting a risk assessment from a medical panel after not travelling with the Washington Mystics to the league's bio-secure bu...
Jul 09, 2020
Facial recognition company Clearview AI probed by UK, Australia
(Reuters) - Britain's data watchdog and its Australian counterpart said on Thursday they have opened a joint investigation into the personal information handling practices of facial recognition techno...
Jul 09, 2020
Down but not out: Berlusconi could hold key to Italian government's future
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - He is 83 and has lost most of his former support, but Italy's four-times prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is manoeuvring to put his centre-right Forza Italia party ba...
Jul 09, 2020
Meghan seeks to stop publisher naming friends in UK legal battle
LONDON (Reuters) - Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, on Thursday sought a court order to stop the publisher of the Mail on Sunday from publicising the names of five friends who could be witnesses in an o...
Jul 09, 2020
Sacred sites blast exposes Australia's laws skewed to mining
By Melanie Burton and Jonathan Barrett MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - When mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two ancient caves in Western Australia's iron-ore rich Pilbara with state approval, the destruct...
Jul 09, 2020
