Category Archives: Syndicated
China sanctions U.S. officials, including Rubio, over Uighurs issue
BEIJING (Reuters) - China announced on Monday sanctions against U.S. officials and entities, including Republican Senator Marco Rubio, in retaliation for Washington's sanctions against senior Chinese ...
Jul 13, 2020
Spain says EU recovery fund debt is not charity
MADRID (Reuters) - Joint borrowing by European Union countries to finance a fund to recover from the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not charity, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Go...
Jul 13, 2020
NIBC agrees to Blackstone’s reduced takeover offer
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - NIBC has agreed to a proposed takeover by Blackstone , the Dutch bank said on Monday, despite the U.S. private equity firm lowering its bid in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Jul 13, 2020
India’s Glenmark cuts price of COVID-19 drug favipiravir version to $1 per tablet
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Monday it would lower the price of its generic version of favipiravir, FabiFlu, to 75 rupees ($0.9983) per tablet for restricted emergency us...
Jul 13, 2020
Japan hospitals cut staff bonuses as coronavirus drives them into the red
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - About a third of Japanese medical institutions are cutting summer bonuses to staff, a trade union said on Monday, as many hospitals and clinics face a cash crunch, hav...
Jul 13, 2020
Counting the burials: African nations scramble to track COVID-19
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia's capital by slipping cash to gravedigg...
Jul 13, 2020
Smartphone shipments in China fall 16% in June: government data
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments in China fell 16% in June compared with a year earlier, according to government data released on Tuesday. The numbers suggest that handset demand in China rem...
Jul 13, 2020
Alibaba’s Jack Ma sells $9.6 billion worth shares, stake dips to 4.8%: filing
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd co-founder Jack Ma has cut his stake in the company over the past year to 4.8% from 6.4%, cashing out around $9.6 billion at its current share price, the...
Jul 13, 2020
BT warns UK: Do not go too fast on banning Huawei
LONDON (Reuters) - BT CEO Philip Jansen on Monday urged the British government not to move too fast to ban China's Huawei from the 5G network, cautioning that if it did there could be outages and poss...
Jul 13, 2020
Actress Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, dies at 57
(Reuters) - American actress Kelly Preston who has appeared in films including "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins", has died aged 57 after battling breast cancer for nearly two years, her husband, John Travol...
Jul 13, 2020
