Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Basketball-No more 'business as usual' for WNBA, as Clark and other rookies in spotlight
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - A star-studded draft class headlined by the record-smashing Caitlin Clark is set to rock the WNBA when the season tips off on Tuesday, amid unprecedented interest i...
May 12, 2024
German aviation company Lilium and Swiss firm to open new sites in France
PARIS (Reuters) - German aviation firm Lilium and Swiss-based nickel refinery company KL1 will set up new sites in France representing a combined investment of 700 million euros ($753.83 million), Fre...
May 12, 2024
Ukraine-launched drone sparks fire at Russia's Volgograd refinery, regional governor says
(Reuters) - An overnight drone attack launched from Ukraine sparked a brief fire at an oil refinery in the Volgograd region in southern Russia, the region's governor said on Sunday. "The fire was exti...
May 11, 2024
China's ICBC to kick off TLAC bond sales with issuance of $4.15 billion
BEIJING (Reuters) - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China said it would issue 30 billion yuan ($4.15 billion) worth of total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) bonds on May 15, marking the first issuanc...
May 11, 2024
South Korea prepares support package worth over $7 billion for chip industry
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister said on Sunday, after sett...
May 11, 2024
Australia government says budget to help ease high inflation
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday he expected this week's federal budget would help ease the country's stubbornly high inflation, as many Australians continue to grap...
May 11, 2024
Lithuanian presidential hopefuls vow to stand up to Russian threat
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanians vote on Sunday in a presidential election expected to hand a new term to incumbent Gitanas Nauseda, a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its two-year war ...
May 11, 2024
Factbox-Switzerland won Eurovision's jury vote, while viewers favoured Croatia, Israel
MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Swiss artist Nemo won the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, beating 24 rivals with the song "The Code", while Israel's Eden Golan finished fifth despite...
May 11, 2024
Catalans vote in election that offers new chance to exiled separatist leader
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalans go to the polls on Sunday in a regional vote which offers the choice of an exiled separatist politician who led a breakaway push in 2017, or an anti-indepen...
May 11, 2024
Apple's New Jersey store workers vote against unionizing, Bloomberg reports
(Reuters) - Workers at Apple's store in Short Hills, New Jersey, have voted against unionizing, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mal...
May 11, 2024
