Author Archives: Syndicated Content
South Africa 59% excess deaths imply hidden COVID-19 toll
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa witnessed some 17,000 extra deaths from natural causes or 59% more than would normally be expected between early May and mid-July, scientists said, s...
Jul 23, 2020
France considers moratorium on new e-commerce warehouses, says minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's newly-appointed Environment Minister Barbara Pompili said on Thursday she would push to pause the development of warehouses used by online businesses such as Amazon, in a po...
Jul 23, 2020
In another night of unrest in Portland, tear gas hits mayor
PORTLAND (Reuters) - The mayor of the U.S. city of Portland, Ted Wheeler, was stung by tear gas early on Thursday morning after he joined demonstrators protesting against racial injustice and police b...
Jul 23, 2020
Tokyo marks one year to go until Olympics… again
By Jack Tarrant and Akira Tomoshige TOKYO (Reuters) - As Tokyo marked one year to go until the Olympics for the second time on Thursday, it was perhaps fitting that the newly-built National Stadium, i...
Jul 23, 2020
China state-owned firms’ first half profits down 38.8% year-on-year: ministry
BEIJING (Reuters) - Profits at China's state-owned firms in the January-June period fell 38.8% year on year to 1.12 trillion yuan ($160.11 billion), the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Thursda...
Jul 23, 2020
Hong Kong’s central bank says security law does not affect ‘normal’ financial activities
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's new national security law for Hong Kong will not affect "normal" daily activities in the financial sector such as hedging, publishing bearish reports or the collection of...
Jul 23, 2020
NMC seeks up to $250 million ahead of UAE insolvency proceedings: sources
By Davide Barbuscia and Hadeel Al Sayegh DUBAI (Reuters) - Hospital operator NMC Health is looking to raise up to $250 million in debt while it prepares for insolvency proceedings in the United Arab E...
Jul 23, 2020
German court convicts 93-year old man for Nazi crimes
BERLIN (Reuters) - A court in Hamburg on Thursday convicted a 93-year old German man of helping to murder 5,232 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two and handed...
Jul 23, 2020
Volkswagen sees Amazon-built ‘industrial cloud’ as future B2B marketplace
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG , Europe's largest automaker, is expanding its cloud-based software and data portal, aiming to develop it into an industry-wide marketplace where business cus...
Jul 23, 2020
France’s Macron wants EU action, sanctions over Mediterranean violations
PARIS (Reuters) - France's president on Thursday said it would be a serious error by the European Union to not respond to provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean and said he wanted more sanctions on...
Jul 23, 2020
