Category Archives: Syndicated
Masks and bikinis as Bangkok sex districts reopen with new rules
By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - With performers wearing facemasks as well as bikinis, Bangkok's red-light districts reopened on Wednesday after more than three months of s...
Jul 01, 2020
House considering Wednesday vote on Senate-passed business loan program: Hoyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is considering whether to hold a vote on Wednesday on a Senate-approved extension of a $660 billion lending program in an effort to help small ...
Jul 01, 2020
Boston officials vote to remove statue of Lincoln and enslaved Black man
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Boston officials have voted to remove "The Emancipation Group" statue depicting Abraham Lincoln and an enslaved Black man from a city square, saying its "reductive repr...
Jul 01, 2020
Brazil’s second largest port disrupted by strong winds, authority says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The port authority of Brazil's second busiest port for grains and sugar, Paranagu, said on Wednesday that two shiploaders at the port were displaced by strong winds on Tuesday. T...
Jul 01, 2020
‘We are not guinea pigs,’ say South African anti-vaccine protesters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anti-vaccine protesters took to the streets in Johannesburg on Wednesday to voice their concern over Africa's first human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine. Last Wedn...
Jul 01, 2020
Exasperated Merkel backs widening boardroom quota for women
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her support on Wednesday for setting a quota for women on the executive boards of Germany's top listed companies, building on a 30% quota for wome...
Jul 01, 2020
Venezuela’s electoral board considers December 13 for new parliamentary vote
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's electoral authority is considering new parliamentary elections on Dec. 13, one of its directors said on Wednesday, though the opposition says President Nicolas Maduro i...
Jul 01, 2020
Why Amy McGrath could cost Republicans the U.S. Senate, even if she loses to Mitch McConnell
By David Morgan and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath's long-shot bid to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could help undermine Republican efforts to retain th...
Jul 01, 2020
Europe’s ECM banker fees rise as firms tap shareholders for cash
By Clara Denina and Abhinav Ramnarayan LONDON (Reuters) - Fees earned by bankers in Europe's equity capital markets reached a two-year high of nearly $2 billion in the first half of 2020 as companies ...
Jul 01, 2020
Swiss government backs aviation company SR Technics bank loan
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has granted aviation services company SR Technics Switzerland AG a deficiency guarantee of 60% on a 120 million Swiss franc ($126.8 million) bank loan to bridge a liquid...
Jul 01, 2020
