Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China Hongqiao kicks off aluminium production in Yunnan
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The world's top private-sector aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group Ltd has started first phase production at a greener aluminium plant in the southwestern province of ...
Sep 17, 2020
France urges financial firms to finalise plans for Brexit risks
PARIS (Reuters) - French financial firms need to finalise preparations for the end of Britain's Brexit transition arrangements and in particular find solutions for securities clearing, France's financ...
Sep 17, 2020
Uganda reverses forest destruction by inviting in … loggers
By Elias Biryabarema KALAGALA, Uganda (Reuters) - For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda's forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimp...
Sep 17, 2020
In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance
ARTAS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with ...
Sep 17, 2020
Volkswagen in talks to sell Bugatti to Croatia’s Rimac: Manager Magazin
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen is in talks to sell its supercar brand Bugatti to Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac, Manager Magazin said on Thursday citing people familiar with the talks. The sale to...
Sep 17, 2020
Positive COVID-19 cases up 167% in England since end of August – tracing scheme
LONDON (Reuters) - There has been an 167% increase in the number of new people testing positive for COVID-19 in England, the National Health Service's test and trace scheme said on Thursday. The schem...
Sep 17, 2020
Defying protests and poverty, Haitians get creative to wed in style
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - As anti-government protesters in Haiti's capital blocked principal roads and clashed with police last year, Stanley Joseph and Daphne Gerard used the city's winding and poth...
Sep 17, 2020
Facebook-backed Libra appoints former HSBC exec to head cryptocurrency
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - The Facebook-backed Libra project has appointed former HSBC European head James Emmett to lead Libra's operational unit tasked with developing and operatin...
Sep 17, 2020
Trump, Biden offer clashing visions on reopening economy
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jason Lange (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic threw millions of Americans out of work, ended the longest U.S. economic expansion on record and undermined a key argument for ...
Sep 17, 2020
Fed’s Powell sees a long road to ‘maximum employment’
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - The way Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sees it, the U.S. labor market has a long way to go to meet the central bank's maximum employment goal and a lot of boxes to t...
Sep 17, 2020
