Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Swiss court upholds conviction of ex-UBS banker who sold data to German authorities
ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss court has upheld the 2019 conviction of a former UBS banker for selling information about wealthy German tax evaders to German authorities. The ex-banker - a Swiss dubbed Re...
Dec 18, 2020
Poland may tighten restrictions further to fight virus, says PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland may introduce even stricter restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview published on Friday, a day after the governm...
Dec 18, 2020
U.S. deaths from COVID top 3,000 for third straight day
(Reuters) - U.S. deaths from COVID-19 topped 3,000 for a third straight day, with a record number of new infections on Thursday, just as the United States prepared to ship out nearly six million doses...
Dec 18, 2020
Canoeing, taekwondo, modern pentathlon earn 2023 European Games spots
(Reuters) - Canoeing, taekwondo and modern pentathlon won a spot at the Krakow-Malopolska 2023 European Games after the European Olympic Committees ratified their inclusion on Friday. The inclusion of...
Dec 18, 2020
More than 1.1 million ballots cast in early voting for Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1.1 million Georgians have voted in twin U.S. Senate runoff elections that will determine which party controls that chamber of Congress, and with it the fate of much o...
Dec 18, 2020
UN rights office calls on Thailand to amend royal insult law
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office called on Thailand on Friday to amend its lese majeste law which it said had been used against at least 35 activists - one as young as 16 - in...
Dec 18, 2020
Greek police detain Turk consular official on spy claim
ATHENS (Reuters) - Police in Greece have detained a Turkish consular official on suspicion of spying, a senior Greek source said on Friday, in a case likely to further strain relations between the two...
Dec 18, 2020
UK PM Johnson says he hopes to avoid another lockdown for England
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he hoped that England would not need to go into a third lockdown after Christmas and follow Wales and Northern Ireland in imposin...
Dec 18, 2020
UK's Johnson says EU trade deal looking difficult, but door is still open
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday trade talks with the European Union were "looking difficult" and there was a gap that needed to be bridged, but the door for furt...
Dec 18, 2020
English COVID infections sharply rise after three weeks of falls - survey
LONDON (Reuters) - The prevalence of COVID-19 cases in England has risen sharply and is back above 500,000 infections in the latest weekly data, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday, afte...
Dec 18, 2020
