Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Out of vetoes, Portugal president enacts law allowing euthanasia
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has signed a bill decriminialising euthanasia into law in the Catholic-majority country after parliament on Friday overturn...
May 17, 2023
India’s top court gives market watchdog 3 more months to finish Adani probe
By Jayshree P Upadhyay and Arpan Chaturvedi MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the country's market regulator additional time till August 14 to complete its investigation int...
May 17, 2023
Analysis-Australia’s push for faster EV uptake will be slow to charge
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians are starting to buy electric vehicles in large numbers, and the government is trying to accelerate the adoption of cleaner cars, but industry executives...
May 17, 2023
Turkey opposition says irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition party determined there were irregularities at 2,269 ballot boxes for the presidential election and at 4,825 boxes for the parliamentary election that took p...
May 17, 2023
Indonesia communications minister arrested for graft
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities on Wednesday arrested a senior cabinet minister on corruption charges in a case they said caused more than half a billion dollars in state losses. Johnny G. ...
May 17, 2023
Neglected Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes get new life at Nigerian museum
By Angela Ukomadu LAGOS (Reuters) - At the National Museum in Lagos, workers carefully remove rust and patina from Igbo-Ukwu Bronze artefacts, part of restoration work on some of Nigeria's oldest but ...
May 17, 2023
Japan visitors rise to nearly 2 million in April after China eases travel curbs
TOKYO (Reuters) - Visitors to Japan rose to a post-pandemic high of almost 2 million in April, official data showed on Wednesday, benefiting from a relaxation of travel restrictions in China. The numb...
May 17, 2023
Hyundai Europe CEO: we won’t take a “knee-jerk reaction” to Tesla
MUNICH (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co's European chief said the carmaker was not making a direct change to its pricing in response to Tesla's price cuts, adding consumers needed reassurance that prices ...
May 17, 2023
Exchange operators, US debt ceiling jitters weigh on European shares
(Reuters) - European shares slipped on Wednesday as investors remained concerned about whether the outcome of the U.S. debt ceiling negotiations would result in averting a default, while a slew of dow...
May 17, 2023
Factbox-Hou Yu-ih, presidential candidate of Taiwan’s main opposition party
By Yimou Lee and Sarah Wu (Reuters) - Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party picked New Taipei City mayor Hou Yu-ih on Wednesday to be its presidential candidate in the election next year, wi...
May 17, 2023
