Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Uzbek leader re-elected for seven-year term in snap election
TASHKENT (Reuters) -Uzbekistan's President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, was re-elected with 87.1% of the vote on Sunday, the Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing preliminary results. Mirziyoyev,...
Jul 10, 2023
UK health regulator approves GSK’s vaccine for common respiratory virus RSV
(Reuters) -Britain's health regulator approved GSK's vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes thousands of hospitalisations and deaths annually, the drugmaker said on Monday. Th...
Jul 10, 2023
What people are saying about Ant Group’s $984 million fine and share buyback
(Reuters) - China's Ant Group has announced a surprise share buyback that values the fintech giant at $78.5 billion, well below the $315 billion touted in an abandoned IPO in 2020, in a move that may ...
Jul 10, 2023
Analysis-U.S. military deals not enough to wean India off Russian arms yet
By Krishn Kaushik and David Brunnstrom NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - India's multi-billion-dollar purchases of U.S. arms are less about shifting its reliance on Russian defence equipment and moving...
Jul 10, 2023
Carl Icahn unties personal loans from his company’s shares- WSJ
(Reuters) - Carl Icahn and banks have finalized amended loan agreements that untie Icahn's personal loans from the trading price of Icahn Enterprises, after a short-seller report in May flagged concer...
Jul 10, 2023
Analysis-Europe faces long wait for weight-loss drugs as governments eye costs
By Ludwig Burger and Andreas Rinke FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk will start selling its hugely popular obesity drug Wegovy in Germany this month, its third European market, but only people who pa...
Jul 10, 2023
Four civilians killed, 11 wounded in Russia strikes on Zaporizhzhia town – Ukraine
(Reuters) - Four people died and 11 were injured in Russia's bombing of a residential area of the frontline town of Orikhiv in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region when distribution of humanitarian aid was t...
Jul 10, 2023
Analysis-Ground down: Australia coffee shops an early inflation casualty
By Byron Kaye and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - The cost of serving up a sandwich with a cup of coffee has hit the roof across Australia's vaunted cafes, squeezing profits and forcing a wave of clo...
Jul 10, 2023
Hunger haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray region after years of war
By Dawit Endeshaw MEKELLE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Curled up on a hospital bed in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, an emaciated little girl struggles to breathe, as her father softly strokes her gaunt ...
Jul 10, 2023
Germany sends troops to Australia in a first as Berlin shifts focus to Indo-Pacific
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will, for the first time, send troops to Australia as part of joint drills with some 30,000 service members from 12 other nations, underlining Berlin's inc...
Jul 10, 2023
