Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Climate change could add around $100 billion to costs of extreme weather
LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change could add around $100 billion, or more than 20%, to the global cost of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves and droughts by 2040, research from Cambridge ...
Feb 26, 2020
Walmart in talks with third parties over investment in UK arm Asda
LONDON (Reuters) - Walmart , the world's largest retailer, said on Wednesday that following "inbound interest" it was in talks with a small number of interested parties regarding an opportunity to inv...
Feb 26, 2020
Carnival-going German couple contract coronavirus, authorities fear it has spread
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A German couple who have contracted the coronavirus had taken part in local carnival celebrations and also visited the Netherlands in the 10 days before they were diag...
Feb 26, 2020
Ethiopia asks U.S. to postpone final talks on Blue Nile dam
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has asked the United States to postpone what was expected to be the final round of talks on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam, it said on Wednesday, delaying the pote...
Feb 26, 2020
Delta Air waives travel change fees for South Korea as coronavirus spreads
(Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc said on Wednesday it has expanded its travel change fee waiver to include Seoul, South Korea, through April 30, as coronavirus spreads to regions outside China. The U.S...
Feb 26, 2020
Thune pushes for funding flexibility for farmers and ranchers
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- Many farmers and ranchers have experienced financial stress due to declining net farm income in recent years, trade uncertainty, and last year’s difficult growing ...
Feb 26, 2020
U.S. targets individuals linked to Martyrs Foundation: Treasury Department website
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday added a host of Lebanese individuals and entities it said were linked to the Martyrs Foundation to its designated "global terrorists" lists, accor...
Feb 26, 2020
Explainer: Why EU doesn't want to give Brexit Britain plain trade deal
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union will launch talks next Monday on a new post-Brexit partnership due to start in 2021, but the two sides are already trading bar...
Feb 26, 2020
It's a wrap: Russian Batmobile towed away in plastic after city jaunt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A would-be Russian superhero returned to reality with a bump when police pulled him over as he drove a replica Batmobile through Moscow. The vehicle was too wide for the city's stre...
Feb 26, 2020
Russia's Putin agrees to hold nationwide vote on constitutional changes on April 22: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday agreed to hold a nationwide vote to allow Russians to have their say on a raft of changes to the country's constitution on April 22, the Interf...
Feb 26, 2020
