Author Archives: Syndicated Content
SoftBank shares down 3% after media reports of tech firm bets
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp shares fell 3% in early trading on Monday following media reports that the conglomerate made big bets on equity derivatives tied to listed tech companies. (Report...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia’s secures access to AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine within months
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Monday said it will receive the first batches of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, as the country's virus hotspot said the number of new da...
Sep 06, 2020
Top U.S. Senate Democrat seeks probe into postmaster general’s campaign finance practices
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called on Sunday for the North Carolina attorney general to probe allegations published in the Washington Post that U.S Postm...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia turns to idled factories to pull it out of COVID slump
SYDNEY (Reuters) - In 2017, the last car Australia built rolled out of a General Motors' plant in the city of Adelaide, ending seven decades of local automotive history and the belief that the country...
Sep 06, 2020
Death knell sounds for some of Japan’s oldest department stores
TOKYO (Reuters) - After more than three centuries in business, the Onuma department store in northern Japanese city of Yamagata began bankruptcy proceedings this year - one of many distinguished depar...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia’s CSL agrees to manufacture two COVID-19 vaccine candidates
(Reuters) - Pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd said on Monday it had agreed to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University if trials prove successful, with doses fo...
Sep 06, 2020
Djokovic ‘sad and empty’ after U.S. Open disqualification
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic said he was "sad and empty" after a being disqualified from the U.S. Open on Sunday after hitting a line judge in the throat with a ball during his f...
Sep 06, 2020
Saudi King Salman tells Trump no Israeli normalisation without Palestinian statehood
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's ruler King Salman bin Abdulaziz told President Donald Trump there would be no normalisation with Israel without Palestinian statehood, the kingdom's state news agency ...
Sep 06, 2020
Rogers upsets sixth seed Kvitova in U.S. Open fourth round
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Shelby Rogers ousted sixth seed Petra Kvitova in the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Sunday, winning 7-6(5) 3-6 7-6(6) in one of the most tightly-contested matches of th...
Sep 06, 2020
Babos decries U.S. Open doubles withdrawal
(Reuters) - Women's doubles top seed Timea Babos has said she was still in tears on Sunday, a day after she and her partner Kristina Mladenovic were withdrawn from the U.S. Open hours before being due...
Sep 06, 2020
