Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
China August exports rise 9.5% year-on-year, beat forcasts; imports down 2.1%
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports in August rose at a faster-than-expected pace, increasing by 9.5% from a year earlier, though imports dropped 2.1%, customs data showed on Monday. Analysts in a Reu...
Sep 06, 2020
Top Democrat accuses U.S. attorney general of lying about China election threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Sunday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of lying when he said China posed a bigger th...
Sep 06, 2020
Asian shares start cautiously amid elevated valuations, oil skids
By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares started Monday on the backfoot as investors grapple with sky-high valuations against the backdrop of a global economy in the grip of a deep coronavirus-...
Sep 06, 2020
Tahlequah, ‘Tour of Grief’ killer whale, gives birth
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An endangered killer whale named "Tahlequah," which famously carried her dead calf on her head in mourning for 17 days through the Salish Sea off British Columbia in 201...
Sep 06, 2020
Typhoon Haishen heads toward Korea after battering Japan
By Sangmi Cha and Sakura Murakami SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea hunkered down for the arrival of Typhoon Haishen on Monday, after the powerful storm battered Japan's southern islands but appeare...
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
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
Assange’s legal fight to avoid U.S. espionage trial resumes in London
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Assange resumes his battle in a London court on Monday to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLe...
Sep 06, 2020
