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U.S. Senate passes $2.1 billion emergency funds for Capitol Police, Afghans
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved emergency funding to replenish the Capitol Police and bolster security after the Jan. 6 riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump and to evacuate Afghans who helped American forces from their country. The $2.1 billion bill was passed by the Senate by a (More…)
Britain warns COVID-19 could infect half Myanmar in next two weeks
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – Britain’s U.N. ambassador warned on Thursday that half of Myanmar’s 54 million people could be infected with COVID-19 in the next two weeks as Myanmar’s envoy called for U.N. monitors to ensure an effective delivery of vaccines. Myanmar has been in chaos since the military ousted an elected (More…)
Coffee, cane and orange crops at risk as temperatures plunge in Brazil
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Temperatures fell in swathes of Brazil on Thursday – with rare snowfall overnight in some places – as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frosts. Unusually cold weather in Brazil has already sent international prices (More…)
IMF sees “critical role” as world transitions to digital money
Posted July 29, 2021
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund must ramp up its resources as it seeks to “monitor, advise on, and help manage this far-reaching and complex transition” to digital money, according (More...)
Thousands stuck in Colombia’s Caribbean amid migration surge
Posted July 29, 2021
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Some 9,000 migrants are stranded in a Caribbean municipality in Colombia amid a surge of people passing through on their way to north America following the re-opening of international (More...)
Pandemic drove online prices higher -report
Posted July 29, 2021
By Howard Schneider
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The rush to online shopping during the pandemic drove prices higher for goods ordered over the internet, eroding a long-standing cost advantage and possible evidence that (More...)
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