Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
LVMH, Tiffany agree on lower price in takeover deal: sources
(Reuters) - French luxury goods giant LVMH will pay $131.50 per share to buy Tiffany & Co , $3.50 less than what was agreed in last November, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday...
Oct 28, 2020
U.S. accuses eight people in alleged plot to harass and intimidate citizens to return to China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unsealed a complaint on Wednesday charging eight people with conspiring to work on behalf of China to engage in an "international campaign to threate...
Oct 28, 2020
Zeta roars out of U.S. Gulf of Mexico, bringing 100 mph winds to coast
(Reuters) - Hurricane Zeta intensified and was poised on Wednesday to strike Louisiana with up to 100 mile-per-hour (161 kph) winds that will reach far inland, the state's sixth lashing this year from...
Oct 28, 2020
Turkey hits at ‘crusades’ against Islam in cartoons row with France
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's leader said on Wednesday that Western countries mocking Islam wanted to "relaunch the Crusades", heightening a confrontation with France ...
Oct 28, 2020
Trump administration sets record low limit for new U.S. refugees
(Reuters) - The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees it will allow to resettle in the United States in the coming year, capping the number at 15,000, a record low in the history of ...
Oct 28, 2020
Special Report: He waited 512 days behind bars for his day in court. It never came
By Linda So and Grant Smith MARIETTA, Georgia (Reuters) - From his jail cell, Chinedu Efoagui sent a plea. "I'm innocent," he wrote his lawyer. "Have all the charges dropped." Born in Nigeria, Efoagui...
Oct 28, 2020
Special Report: As jails free thousands amid COVID-19, reform push takes root
By Linda So, Brad Heath, Jason Szep, Ned Parker and Peter Eisler WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The population in America's big jails and state prisons plunged by 170,000 this spring amid the coronavirus pand...
Oct 28, 2020
Renewed shelling claims lives in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
By Nailia Bagirova and Nvard Hovhannisyan BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday, in an ...
Oct 28, 2020
Wall Street futures fall as rising virus cases spark lockdown fears
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Wednesday, as rising coronavirus cases globally triggered fears of lockdowns disrupting a nascent economic recovery, while concerns over a c...
Oct 28, 2020
In Beirut port, all of Lebanon’s ills are laid bare
By Samia Nakhoul, Ellen Francis and Michael Georgy BEIRUT (Reuters) - The first of many warnings about a deadly cargo in Beirut's port came in February 2014, about three months after its arrival. It w...
Oct 28, 2020
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