Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. SEC's Peirce congratulates Roisman as next agency acting head
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Republican Commissioner Hester Peirce on Thursday tweeted congratulations to her Republican counterpart at the a...
Dec 24, 2020
Ireland breathes sigh of relief as 'least bad' Brexit deal clinched
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Michel Martin expressed relief on Thursday after neighbouring Britain agreed a last-minute trade deal with the European Union which he said was the "least bad v...
Dec 24, 2020
Suspected Russian hackers tried to access CrowdStrike's email
SAN FRANCSICO (Reuters) - The suspected Russian agents behind the biggest breach of U.S. government agencies in years leveraged access to a Microsoft cloud services reseller in a failed attempt to hac...
Dec 24, 2020
Just three truckers so far test positive for COVID-19 in queue to leave England
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said only three of 2,367 lorry drivers so far tested for COVID-19 were shown to be infected under an emergency testing regime that began this week to reopen the border with ...
Dec 24, 2020
Explainer-A Brexit trade deal at last - so what?
By Guy Faulconbridge and John Chalmers LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nearly five years since the Brexit crisis began, the United Kingdom and the European Union have clinched a trade deal that defines th...
Dec 24, 2020
Iran acts to buy, test vaccines as virus deaths dip to 3-month low
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has reached an initial agreement to buy coronavirus vaccines from overseas and plans to test a domestically produced shot soon, state media reported on Thursday, as the daily nu...
Dec 24, 2020
EU cannot complete assessment on financial market access for UK, says official
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union cannot yet complete its assessments for granting Britain access to the bloc's financial market despite London and Brussels agreeing a trade deal, a European Commi...
Dec 24, 2020
Explainer-Brexit trade deal will lessen, but not kill, the economic pain
By John Chalmers and Gabriela Baczynska (Reuters) - Britain has clinched a last-minute trade agreement with the European Union that will preserve its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's si...
Dec 24, 2020
UK PM Johnson says difficult times ahead as variant virus spreads
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Thursday that the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus meant there would be difficult times ahead, citing the need to control it...
Dec 24, 2020
Bluff and brinksmanship: How Britain got a Brexit trade deal done
By John Chalmers, Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - As trade talks with the United Kingdom ground to deadlock on Dec. 9, one European Union official summed up the mood...
Dec 24, 2020
