Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brexit: Britain's tortuous journey out of the EU
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, four years after voting to leave the bloc, and seven days before it quits one of the world's biggest tradin...
Dec 24, 2020
EU ambassadors to meet on Christmas Day to review post-Brexit trade deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors will meet at 10:30am CET on Friday, Christmas Day, to begin reviewing the post-Brexit trade deal clinched on Thursday by the EU and Britain, an EU spoke...
Dec 24, 2020
Italy reports 505 coronavirus deaths on Thursday, total cases surpass 2 million
ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 505 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday against 553 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new infections increased to 18,040 from 14,522, taki...
Dec 24, 2020
Experts who wrestled with SolarWinds hackers say cleanup could take months - or longer
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cybersecurity expert Steven Adair and his team were in the final stages of purging the hackers from a think tank's network earlier this year when a suspicious ...
Dec 24, 2020
UK parliament to vote on Brexit deal on Dec. 30
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will vote to approve a trade deal with the European Union on Dec. 30, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday following the announcement of an agreement w...
Dec 24, 2020
EU Parliament to analyse Brexit deal before giving green light in 2021
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament will analyse in detail the deal the EU and the UK clinched on Thursday, before deciding whether to give its consent in the new year, the head of the instit...
Dec 24, 2020
UK chief negotiator Frost says Britain will be fully independent from Jan. 1
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Chief Negotiator David Frost said on Thursday Britain would be a fully independent country again from Jan. 1, expressing his pride in the announcement of a trade deal with...
Dec 24, 2020
Wife of jailed Kurdish leader hails release ruling, demands Turkish reforms
ANKARA (Reuters) - The wife of detained Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas said on Thursday she expected Turkey to comply with a call from Europe's top rights court to free him, but that the count...
Dec 24, 2020
EU's Barnier says Brexit deal a relief, "clock no longer ticking"
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday that the trade deal agreed with Britain was a relief because it was clinched just a week before the end-year deadl...
Dec 24, 2020
First 300,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik vaccine arrive in Argentina to fight COVID-19
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Some 300,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Argentina on Thursday morning, following its approval by the government for emergency use. On a special fl...
Dec 24, 2020
