Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: EU to blacklist 31 Belarus senior officials over election, diplomats say
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country's interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats ...
Sep 07, 2020
Health tech pins hope on Africa’s pandemic shift to online care
By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - When Loveth Metiboba's baby had diarrhoea, she worried that taking him to a clinic near her home in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, might expose them both to the coron...
Sep 07, 2020
IKEA’s shopping centres arm aims to open its first U.S. mall within a year
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - IKEA's shopping centres business hopes to open the doors of its first mall in the United States within a year, in San Francisco, its managing director Gerard Groener told Reuters...
Sep 07, 2020
China’s August forex reserves rise to $3.165 trillion
BEIJING - China's foreign exchange reserves rose less than expected in August amid persistent weakness in the U.S. dollar and solid gains in the yuan as China's economy recovers steadily. The country'...
Sep 07, 2020
Spain’s PM Sanchez sees positive aspects in Bankia-Caixabank merger
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said there were positive aspects in the proposed merger of Spanish lenders Caixabank and state-owned Bankia and called on the sector t...
Sep 07, 2020
Rise in UK COVID-19 ‘concerning’ but not out of control: Hancock
LONDON (Reuters) - The rise in COVID-19 infections in Britain is "concerning", Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday, but he added that the government was still in control of the pandemic. The ...
Sep 07, 2020
Emirates airline issued over $1.4 billion in coronavirus-related refunds
DUBAI (Reuters) - Emirates airline has issued over 5 billion dirhams ($1.4 billion) in refunds related to the new coronavirus crisis, it said on Monday. The Dubai-based carrier, which has processed mo...
Sep 07, 2020
Belarusian protest leader detained by unidentified people: Tut.By media report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Unidentified people detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witnes...
Sep 07, 2020
Melbourne Bledisloe Cup test pushed back to 2022 due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The Bledisloe Cup test between Australia and New Zealand scheduled for Melbourne this year has been switched to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rugby Australia said on Monday. The annua...
Sep 07, 2020
German funds and insurers take aim at rating agency data fees
LONDON (Reuters) - German investment funds and insurers have called on the European Union to force credit rating agencies to provide more transparency on the fees they charge for data. U.S. Moody's , ...
Sep 07, 2020
