Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sberbank bets on e-commerce in expansion beyond banking
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest lender Sberbank expects its non-financial businesses to generate 60% of company revenues by 2030, with e-commerce at the heart of a new three-year strategy, unveile...
Nov 30, 2020
French government drops draft law curbing filming of police officers
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling pa...
Nov 30, 2020
No COVID-19 vaccine, no normal life, UK minister suggests
LONDON (Reuters) - People who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 could find normal life curtailed as restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports venues could block entry to those who don't have proof they are in...
Nov 30, 2020
In rebuke to Orban, Merkel says rule of law was no backdoor addition
BERLIN (Reuters) - Suggestions that a requirement of adherence to the rule of law were introduced into proposals for the next European Union budget secretly, over the objections of some leaders, are n...
Nov 30, 2020
Main economic boost from COVID vaccines will come later, BoE’s Tenreyro says
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Silvana Tenreyro said the main economic boost from progress on COVID-19 vaccines would only come when the jabs are rolled out, and the BoE should prevent...
Nov 30, 2020
Philippines extends partial coronavirus curbs in capital to end of 2020
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said that partial coronavirus restrictions will remain in the capital region until the end of the year, with the government urging Fil...
Nov 30, 2020
Merkel: Challenge with China is finding right balance between values and interests
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe must stand up for its values in its dealings with China, but given the country's sheer population and economic importance, there will always be a trade-off between the EU's v...
Nov 30, 2020
Ivory Coast, Ghana cancel cocoa sustainability schemes run by chocolatemaker Hershey
ABIDJAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Ivory Coast and Ghana are cancelling all cocoa sustainability schemes run by U.S.-based Hershey in the west African countries, accusing the chocolatemaker of trying to avoid...
Nov 30, 2020
Brazilian politician, in a coma on ventilator due to COVID-19, elected mayor
By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Maguito Vilela was elected mayor of the Brazilian city of Goinia on Sunday, but he has yet to find out. That's because he has spent much of the last m...
Nov 30, 2020
UK select committee calls for help for Arcadia pension members
LONDON (Reuters) - A British parliamentary committee has called on the pensions regulator to fight for those workers at Philip Green's Arcadia Group which is battling to secure its future during the p...
Nov 30, 2020
