Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Next Lebanon government to face $30 billion reform test
By Tom Arnold and Ghaida Ghantous LONDON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon may be in line for $298 million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast, but the more than $30 billion some estimate it may nee...
Aug 12, 2020
Swiss to allow events of 1,000-plus people from October 1
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will allow events of more than 1,000 people from Oct. 1, provided organizers follow hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the government decided...
Aug 12, 2020
Belarus says police fired live rounds at protesters as EU weighs sanctions
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus said on Wednesday that police had fired live rounds at protesters in the city of Brest and arrested more than 1,000 people nationwide, intensifying a crac...
Aug 12, 2020
Microsoft prices its dual-screen Android phone at $1,399, will arrive Sept 10
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said the Surface Duo, its dual-screen smartphone powered by Alphabet Inc's Android operating system, will start at a price of $1,399 and arriv...
Aug 12, 2020
Tesla woos retail investors with stock split, shares rise
By Aakash B and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Wall Street analysts praised Tesla Inc's move to split its richly valued stock into smaller chunks, saying it had the potential to extend a 200% rally in its ...
Aug 12, 2020
Sweden puts Austria, Liechtenstein on safe travel list
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden withdrew its recommendation to citizens not to take unnecessary trips to Austria and Liechtenstein on Wednesday, but kept in place warnings over travel to the United Kingd...
Aug 12, 2020
Jordan to close border with Syria after spike in COVID-19 cases
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan will close its land trade border crossing with Syria for a week after a spike in COVID-19 cases coming from its northern neighbour, officials said on Wednesday. They said the ...
Aug 12, 2020
Billionaire Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, dead at 97
By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father's movie theater chain and built it into an empire that included Paramount Pic...
Aug 12, 2020
Pompeo says tide is turning against untrusted 5G networks
PRAGUE (Reuters) - There is growing understanding among many countries that security issues must be taken into account when developing new-generation 5G communication networks, U.S. Secretary of State...
Aug 12, 2020
For the art collector with everything, the $1.5 million COVID mask
MOTZA, Israel (Reuters) - Art rather than ostentation is the rationale behind the world's most expensive coronavirus mask, say the Israeli jewellers who are crafting the $1.5 million object for an unn...
Aug 12, 2020
