Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. ambassador says Turkey ignores pharma debt at its peril
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms, and he crit...
Sep 23, 2020
Lebanon’s fractious politics puts French lifeline at risk
By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East na...
Sep 23, 2020
What’s in the law protecting internet companies – and can Trump change it?
By Jonathan Weber, Elizabeth Culliford and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to reform a legal immunity for internet companies and follow...
Sep 23, 2020
Kenya’s Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders
MAPARASHA HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) - Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ochre gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (war...
Sep 23, 2020
Reptile dubbed ‘Jaws of Death’ terrorized Cretaceous seas
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roughly 80 million years ago in the shallow inland sea that once split North America into eastern and western land masses, a fearsome 33-foot-long (10-meter-long)...
Sep 23, 2020
K-pop band BTS delivers ‘message of hope’ at 75th U.N. General Assembly
By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Korean K-pop band BTS delivered a "message of hope" in a pre-recorded video posted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday as par...
Sep 23, 2020
Disney delays releases of ‘Black Widow’ ‘West Side Story’ until 2021
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co postponed the release of Marvel superhero movie "Black Widow" by six months until May 2021, the company said on Wednesday. The movie studio also pushed the relea...
Sep 23, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 200,275 coronavirus deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday reported 6,874,982 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 49,285 cases from its previous count, and said that t...
Sep 23, 2020
Czechs pay for summer of fun with new restrictions as coronavirus cases soar
By Robert Muller and David W. Cerny PRAGUE (Reuters) - In June, hundreds of Czechs sat down along a 500-metre table on Prague's Charles Bridge to celebrate overcoming the coronavirus pandemic with lit...
Sep 23, 2020
Fed’s Evans says he expects 2% inflation by 2023, but no rate hikes
(Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said Wednesday he does not expect the U.S. central bank to increase interest rates through at least 2023, though he does expect inflation to...
Sep 23, 2020
