Author Archives: Syndicated Content
North American farmers profit as consumers pressure food business to go green
By Karl Plume and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Beer made from rice grown with less water, rye planted in the off-season and the sale of carbon credits to tech firms are just a few...
Dec 03, 2020
Bahrain open to imports from Israeli settlements, Palestinians fume
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bahrain's imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from settlements in occupied territory, the Bahrai...
Dec 03, 2020
Energy efficiency progress falters amid pandemic: IEA
By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) - Global progress toward energy efficiency has slowed to its lowest rate in 10 years due to subdued prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Energy Agency...
Dec 03, 2020
Sao Paulo state gets one million doses of China candidate vaccine
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Butantan Institute biomedical center on Thursday received 1 million doses of a Chinese vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech that is undergoing late-stage testing by the ...
Dec 03, 2020
Special Report: Burner phones and banking apps: Meet the Chinese ‘brokers’ laundering Mexican drug money
By Drazen Jorgic GUADALAJARA (Reuters) - Early next year, a Chinese businessman named Gan Xianbing will be sentenced in a Chicago courtroom for laundering just over $530,000 in Mexican cartel drug mon...
Dec 03, 2020
S&P futures flat ahead of jobless claims, service sector data
By Shriya Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - Futures tied to the S&P 500 stalled near all-time highs on Thursday ahead of weekly jobless claims data and surveys on the services sector, which accounts for more t...
Dec 03, 2020
U.N. panel says South Sudan blocking its missions to violence-hit areas
By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Implementation of South Sudan's 2018 peace accord has stalled and authorities have blocked humanitarian access to areas where conflict has restarted, the U.N. panel of e...
Dec 03, 2020
Iran ready for further prisoner swaps; seeks U.S. nuclear move – foreign minister
ROME (Reuters) - Iran is ready to engage in further prisoner swaps after last week exchanging a jailed British-Australian academic with three Iranians detained abroad, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamma...
Dec 03, 2020
3M to cut 2,900 jobs globally in restructuring
(Reuters) - 3M Co said on Thursday it would undertake a restructuring that would impact about 2,900 jobs globally. The company expects to record a pre-tax charge of $250 million to $300 million as a r...
Dec 03, 2020
How COVID upended life as we knew it in a matter of weeks
By Alexandra Hudson (Reuters) - On Jan. 1, 2020, as the world welcomed a new decade, Chinese authorities in Wuhan shut down a seafood market in the central city of 11 million, suspecting that an outbr...
Dec 03, 2020
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