Category Archives: Syndicated
Polish football star Lewandowski invests in video game company
WARSAW (Reuters) - Bundesliga top scorer Robert Lewandowski has agreed to invest in a Polish company set up to produce sports-related video games, whose popularity has grown during the coronavirus loc...
Aug 06, 2020
Makeover: UK fashion bible Vogue turns serious for September
By Ben Makori LONDON (Reuters) - Misan Harriman hopes to encourage employers to cast the recruitment net more widely with his Vogue cover portrait of influential Black activists in place of the usual ...
Aug 06, 2020
Fed’s Kaplan says small businesses need more aid
(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities have been largely effective at stabilizing markets without needing a large financial investment, but small and medium-sized businesses ne...
Aug 06, 2020
Beirut’s accidental cargo: how an unscheduled port visit led to disaster
By Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut's deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo sh...
Aug 06, 2020
Malaysia’s former finance minister Lim Guan Eng arrested by anti-graft officials
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian anti-graft officials arrested former finance minister Lim Guan Eng on Thursday in connection with corruption allegations over a $1.5 billion undersea tunnel project,...
Aug 06, 2020
Norway set 10-day quarantine on incomers from France, Switzerland, others
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will on Saturday reimpose a ten-day quarantine for all travellers from France, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in those countr...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. SEC fines World Acceptance Corp $21.7 million for Mexican bribes
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it had fined World Acceptance Corp , a consumer loan company, $21.7 million for paying brib...
Aug 06, 2020
UK PM Johnson says UK test and trace system is world beating
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood by his description of Britain's system of testing and tracing coronavirus infections on Thursday, despite a fall in the number of people contacted...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. imposes Libya-related sanctions on individuals, company
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed Libya-related sanctions on three individuals as well as a Malta-based company, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's website. The Mal...
Aug 06, 2020
City of London faces messy future with the EU
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's future access to European Union financial markets is looking increasingly patchy, as Brussels tries to limit the activities which can be carried out from Lond...
Aug 06, 2020
