Category Archives: Syndicated
Exclusive: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50 billion in takeover bid – sources
By Echo Wang, Kane Wu and Julie Zhu NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some investors of TikTok's parent company ByteDance seeking to take over the popular social media app are valuing it at about $50 bil...
Jul 29, 2020
Lebanon’s Jumblatt says country needs new prime minister: newspaper
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon needs a new prime minister to help it exit a deep economic and financial crisis, one of the country's leading politicians said in an interview published on Wednesday. Vetera...
Jul 29, 2020
Chinese professor who criticized Xi seeks to overturn prostitution charge, lawyer says
By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent Chinese legal scholar who was detained and then fired after criticising President Xi Jinping hopes to clear his name by overturning a prostitution charg...
Jul 29, 2020
Futures edge higher ahead of Fed policy meet
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures ticked higher on Wednesday as investors hoped for cues of support from the Federal Reserve, while the country grappled with a spike i...
Jul 29, 2020
Trump says he never confronted Putin about Russia bounty reports: Axios
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he never questioned Russian President Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanis...
Jul 29, 2020
GE reports quarterly loss as coronavirus pandemic hits hard
(Reuters) - General Electric Co reported $2.18 billion in quarterly losses on Wednesday, hurt by weakness in its aviation and power units due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its free cash outflow came i...
Jul 29, 2020
EU executive signs remdesivir deal with Gilead
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it has signed a contract with Gilead for its COVID-19 medicine remdesivir that would cover 30,000 patients in the bloc from early ...
Jul 29, 2020
South Korea’s Green Cross seeks phase two trials of COVID-19 plasma drug
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Green Cross Corp has sought regulatory approval for Phase II trials of an experimental COVID-19 blood plasma treatment drug, the company said on Wednesday...
Jul 29, 2020
‘We finally feel vindicated’: Najib’s critics hail Malaysia verdict
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Fahmi Reza was once sentenced to jail in Malaysia for portraying former prime minister Najib Razak as a clown. That image has now been updated and re-posted ...
Jul 29, 2020
White House, lawmakers tangle over scope of new coronavirus legislation
By David Morgan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Trump administration officials and Democratic congressional leaders will try on Wednesday to narrow their stark differences over a coronavir...
Jul 29, 2020
