Author Archives: Syndicated Content
World agencies step in as pandemic poverty hits artisanal miners
By Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From a $15 million World Bank fund to an experimental gold-buying project in Burkina Faso, development agencies are delivering financial aid to subsistence miner...
Jun 26, 2020
Collapsing Lebanese pound hits new lows, food imports reduced
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese pound tumbled to new lows against the dollar on Friday on a parallel market where it has now lost around 80% of its value since October, and a food importer said the cu...
Jun 26, 2020
Climate activists turn up heat on Standard Bank during AGM
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank came under fire from activists over climate issues at its annual general meeting on Friday, though shareholders did not heed their calls to vote out directors ov...
Jun 26, 2020
Kazakh malls, markets to close at weekend as capital issues stay-home order
ALMATY (Reuters) - Major Kazakh cities will close their shopping malls, markets and parks for a second weekend in a row, authorities said on Friday, in an attempt to curb the coronavirus which has str...
Jun 26, 2020
Novartis faces key meeting in U.S. bribery scandal after settling corruption case
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis , fresh from settling U.S. charges over alleged kickbacks to doctors, is preparing for a key meeting next week with U.S. prosecutors that cou...
Jun 26, 2020
Libya’s NOC says Russian mercenaries entered oilfield, blocked restart of output
TUNIS (Reuters) - Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Friday Russian and other foreign mercenaries had entered the Sharara oilfield on Thursday to block the resumption of energy exports aft...
Jun 26, 2020
Futures muted after Nike’s surprise loss, Fed’s pandemic analysis
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - Futures tracking the S&P 500 were largely flat on Friday as investors digested a surprise quarterly loss for Nike and the Federal Reserve's move to limit shar...
Jun 26, 2020
As lockdown eases, illegal raves take off across Europe
By Michael Holden and Victoria Waldersee LONDON/LISBON (Reuters) - From the housing blocks of London to the beaches of Portugal, thousands of young people are holding illegal raves and parties across ...
Jun 26, 2020
U.S. lawmakers move to fight Treasury bid to curtail pandemic watchdog
By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A clutch of powerful U.S. Senators is pushing back against a bid by the Trump administration's Treasury Department to weaken a watchdog panel involved with ove...
Jun 26, 2020
Hapag-Lloyd to halt waste shipments to China
FRANKFURT/BEIJING (Reuters) - German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it had notified customers it will stop accepting cargoes of solid waste, including scrap metal, bound for China that arriv...
Jun 26, 2020
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