Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Kuroda says BOJ has no immediate plan to issue digital currency
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has no immediate plan to issue central bank digital currency (CBDC), Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday as financial leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) ad...
Oct 13, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court ends Democratic lawmakers' anti-corruption lawsuit against Trump
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions ...
Oct 13, 2020
Used vehicles lift U.S. consumer prices, but inflation slowing
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased for a fourth straight month in September, with the cost of cars and trucks rising by the most since 1969, though inflation is sl...
Oct 13, 2020
Ukraine extends coronavirus lockdown to December 31
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's government voted on Tuesday to extend until the end of the year a lockdown that Prime Minister Denys Shmygal told a televised cabinet meeting was aimed at containing a recen...
Oct 13, 2020
France trials no-swab COVID test with results in 40 minutes
By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - French researchers say they have had encouraging initial results from trials of a COVID-19 testing system that, they say, can deliver results in 40 minutes with n...
Oct 13, 2020
Myanmar centenarian shrugs off coronavirus, worries about grandchildren
By Zaw Naing Oo YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar centenarian Thein Khin not only beat the coronavirus, but barely knew she had it. Thein Khin, 100, tested positive for COVID-19 and was kept in an isolation ...
Oct 13, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Planned Parenthood defunding case
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away South Carolina's bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest case involving a conservative state seeking t...
Oct 13, 2020
Pakistan arrests second suspect after woman was gang-raped
By Mubasher Bukhari and Umar Farooq LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A second suspect was remanded in custody on Tuesday after being detained by police in Pakistan following the gang rape of a woman that ...
Oct 13, 2020
Germany's Merkel concerned by rising coronavirus cases across EU
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she was concerned by rising coronavirus cases across Europe. "I am watching with great concern the renewed increase in infection numb...
Oct 13, 2020
Norway to provide COVID-19 vaccine free of charge
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will provide a vaccine against COVID-19 free of charge to its inhabitants when one becomes available, the government said on Tuesday, and this would become part of the country'...
Oct 13, 2020
