Author Archives: Syndicated Content
As US election looms, Pentagon chief visits Ukraine in show of support
KYIV (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine on Monday, in a show of U.S. support for Kyiv just two weeks ahead of a U.S. presidential election that is casting uncertainty over...
Oct 21, 2024
Focus on gender inequity as Commonwealth summit begins in Samoa
By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) - A meeting of Commonwealth countries began in Samoa on Monday with a focus on the income inequity, violence and structural discrimination faced by women, described by Comm...
Oct 21, 2024
Greece recovers two dead migrants off Samos island
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has recovered the bodies of two migrants - a man and a woman - who had been missing after a boat sank off the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, the country's coastguard said...
Oct 21, 2024
UBS sells its 50% stake in Swisscard to American Express
ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS is offloading part of the Credit Suisse business it acquired last year with a deal to sell the fallen bank's 50% stake in credit card provider Swisscard. UBS will sell its 50% ho...
Oct 21, 2024
Sanofi enters exclusive talks with CD&R for Opella sale
PARIS (Reuters) -Sanofi said on Monday it had entered exclusive talks for the sale of a 50% controlling stake in its consumer health business Opella to U.S. private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice...
Oct 21, 2024
Norwegian bank DNB to buy Carnegie for $1.14 billion
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Norway's largest bank DNB said on Monday it had agreed to buy Swedish investment bank and asset manager Carnegie from private equity firm Altor and minority shareholders for aroun...
Oct 21, 2024
NWSL roundup: Gotham beat Pride, run unbeaten streak to 7
Rose Lavelle scored what ended up being the match-winning goal just before halftime as NJ/NY Gotham topped the Orlando Pride 3-1 on Sunday night in Harrison, N.J. Lavelle found the back of the net in ...
Oct 21, 2024
Russia pounds Kyiv with drones for a second night in a row, Ukraine says
(Reuters) - Russia launched several waves of drones targeting Kyiv for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said early on M...
Oct 21, 2024
Analysis-As poor nations' default wave peaks, cash shortage could take its place
By Libby George and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) - The punishing post-COVID wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years of painf...
Oct 21, 2024
Malaysia says advance estimates show Q3 growth at 5.3% y/y
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's economy likely grew 5.3% in the third quarter from a year earlier, slower than the previous three-month period, official advance estimates showed on Monday. In the ...
Oct 21, 2024
