Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai, daughter, hospitalised for COVID-19 – media
(Reuters) - Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter were hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment, the Times of India reported on Saturday, days after her husband and father-in-law were admi...
Jul 18, 2020
Rouhani says 25 million Iranians infected with COVID-19
(Reuters) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it. The figures, whic...
Jul 18, 2020
Fire breaks out at Nantes cathedral in western France
PARIS (Reuters) - Firemen were battling a fire that broke out early on Saturday morning inside the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, the local fire service said on Twitter. TV images sho...
Jul 18, 2020
China raises equity investment cap for insurers to 45%
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's banking and insurance regulator said it was raising the cap on how much the country's insurers can invest in equity assets, an effort trying to bring more long-term funds ...
Jul 18, 2020
Philippines defends anti-terror law before U.S. Congress
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' foreign ministry has told the U.S. Congress that political freedoms and human rights will be respected as concerns linger over an anti-terrorism law that takes effe...
Jul 18, 2020
John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper’s son, was civil rights hero
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Lewis, who died on Friday at age 80, was a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s who endured beatings by white police and mobs and played an ou...
Jul 18, 2020
Twitter says attackers downloaded data from up to eight non-verified accounts
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week, but said none of them were verif...
Jul 18, 2020
China’s Tomorrow Holdings questions regulator’s takeover of its financial institutions
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese conglomerate Tomorrow Holdings Co Ltd on Saturday questioned top regulators' latest move to take over its financial assets. The statement, published on the company's offic...
Jul 18, 2020
Panama extends suspension of international flights by a month due to coronavirus
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's civil aviation authority said on Friday it will extend a suspension of international flights by another month due to the coronavirus crisis. The additional month of su...
Jul 18, 2020
In Hong Kong, young democrats raring to ‘resist’ as nomination period kicks off for crucial election
By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong formally kicked off a two-week registration period for candidates to run in a key legislative election in September, amid fears authori...
Jul 18, 2020
