Category Archives: Syndicated
Pence campaigns in Wisconsin on Wednesday
DARIEN, WI (WSAU) Vice President Mike Pence will be campaigning on Wednesday in Wisconsin – the day his VP rival Kamala Harris gives her convention speech. Pence is scheduled to campaign in Walw...
Aug 19, 2020
Brazil sends investigators to Shenzhen over claim of coronavirus in chicken, newspaper says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government is sending agricultural attachs from Beijing to the Chinese city of Shenzhen to probe allegations that Brazilian chicken wings exported there were contaminate...
Aug 19, 2020
Erdogan says no threats can deter Turkey’s operations in Mediterranean
ANKARA (Reuters) - No threats can deter Turkey from seeking natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that Ankara expects actors in the region ...
Aug 19, 2020
Gilead shares slide after FDA knocks back rheumatoid arthritis drug
(Reuters) - Shares of Gilead Sciences fell 3% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve its experimental rheumatoid arthritis treatment, a major setback for one of the drugmaker'...
Aug 19, 2020
Archer Daniels Midland to cut stake in Wilmar, sell shares for $500 million
(Reuters) - Grain trader Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) said on Wednesday it plans to sell shares and bonds in Singapore-based Wilmar International with a combined value of $800 million. ADM, which i...
Aug 19, 2020
Lebanon’s Hezbollah ‘got power but lost the country’
By Samia Nakhoul and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a cou...
Aug 19, 2020
Slovenia’s government warns against travel to Croatia
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia urged its citizens to return from Croatia by the end of the week or face an obligatory two-week quarantine after the number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise there, th...
Aug 19, 2020
Citigroup sues two more Revlon lenders in $900 million fight
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc is suing HPS Investment Partners and Symphony Asset Management for allegedly refusing to return a combined $237 million, escalating a legal dispute between the bank and Revlo...
Aug 19, 2020
Erdogan says Turkish economy has regained pre-coronavirus momentum
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's economy has regained the momentum it was seeing before the new coronavirus outbreak, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. "Despite some troubles not stemming from ou...
Aug 19, 2020
South Africa investigates COVID-linked corruption of $290 million
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African authorities are investigating government departments for graft over irregularities in coronavirus-related tenders worth 5 billion rand ($290 million), the head of i...
Aug 19, 2020
