Category Archives: Syndicated
Yemen’s qat markets still draw crowds despite coronavirus threat
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni qat seller Hamdan Hussein's customers still come daily to the crowded market to buy the addictive green stimulant, despite doctors' concerns that chewing in groups and spittin...
Jun 11, 2020
Qatar 2022 World Cup stadium workers went months without pay: Amnesty
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - A Qatari company helping build a 2022 World Cup stadium has been banned from the event's projects after its labourers went unpaid for months, organisers said on...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts says Apple removed app from China store
(Reuters) - New York-based podcasting platform Pocket Casts said its app had been taken down from Apple Inc's app store in China. Reuters couldn't immediately verify why the app was no longer availabl...
Jun 11, 2020
China, U.S. should resume timely communication on trade: China adviser
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States should resume timely communication on trade and other issues, a former senior Chinese official said on Thursday, who stressed that the world's two large...
Jun 11, 2020
Digital love: Britons to embrace lessons of COVID-19 dating as rules ease
By Natalie Thomas LONDON (Reuters) - Those looking for love during the COVID-19 pandemic have had to adapt to lockdown dating, but innovations such as video "pre-dates" may end up outliving the corona...
Jun 11, 2020
Unilever plans switch to British holding company to cut complexity
By Siddharth Cavale (Reuters) - Unilever proposed combining its Dutch and British legal entities in a single holding company based in Britain on Thursday, after shareholders sank an earlier plan to mo...
Jun 11, 2020
How Uber hailed a deal with Grubhub only to let it slip
By Krystal Hu and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has spent much of his career deftly negotiating acquisitions. Yet his $6.5 billion all-stock bid for...
Jun 11, 2020
Collins slams Djokovic’s U.S. Open concerns over COVID-19 protocols
MUMBAI (Reuters) - American tennis player Danielle Collins has hit out at men's world number one Novak Djokovic for his opposition to the COVID-19 protocols proposed by the U.S. Open organisers, sayin...
Jun 11, 2020
Russia’s coronavirus case tally passes the half million mark
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday reported 8,779 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its nationwide infection tally to 502,436. Officials said 174 people had died in the last 24 hours, pu...
Jun 11, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric to acquire plant from Sharp to boost EV power chip output
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp said on Thursday it would buy part of a plant in western Japan from Sharp Corp to meet growing demand for power management chips used in electric veh...
Jun 11, 2020
