Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Communication collapse: Inside Facebook's tussle with Brazil's central bank
By Carolina Mandl and Marcela Ayres SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Allowing millions of Brazilian users of Facebook's WhatsApp to send money as easily as texts seemed a golden opportunity for the worl...
Jul 16, 2020
Amid national debate on race, Fed's Bostic sees central bank role on inequality
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - A rising stock market alongside 11% unemployment has put the U.S. Federal Reserve in a quandary amid the national debate over racial and economic fairness: Is it helpin...
Jul 16, 2020
UK intelligence committee to publish Russia report before summer holiday
LONDON (Reuters) - The British parliament's intelligence and security committee unanimously agreed on Thursday it would publish the report on Russian influence in politics before the chamber rises for...
Jul 16, 2020
Judges rule girl who travelled to Syria can return to UK challenge citizenship removal
LONDON (Reuters) - British judges on Thursday ruled that Shamima Begum, a London schoolgirl who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the removal...
Jul 16, 2020
Siemens to let staff spend less time in the office permanently
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens has decided to let its employees work from wherever they want for two or three days a week, in the latest example of how the coronavirus is making major companies ...
Jul 16, 2020
Formula One, Zoom announce partnership for virtual Paddock Club
(Reuters) - Formula One fans will be able to get a better flavour of the race-day experience with a virtual alternative to the 'Paddock Club' during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a digital partners...
Jul 16, 2020
Young Gazans sell recycled cloth bags to challenge plastic
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip, a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste a...
Jul 16, 2020
Japan sees primary budget surplus delayed to 2028 due to virus impact: sources
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan now expects to achieve a primary budget surplus in the fiscal year 2028, one year later than previously estimated due to fallout from the coronavirus cris...
Jul 16, 2020
Banks must protect access to cash if COVID prompts branch closures: watchdog
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks have been told they must protect customers' access to cash and provide alternative services if they close further branches, the Financial Conduct Authority said on T...
Jul 16, 2020
Black masks, white roses as Spain honours its COVID-19 victims
MADRID (Reuters) - Wearing black face masks, Spanish and foreign dignitaries paid tribute to the victims of the coronavirus pandemic and the health workers combating it in a ceremony on Thursday led b...
Jul 16, 2020
