Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan’s Toyota hands St Petersburg plant over to Russian state
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Toyota said on Friday that the Japanese carmaker's factory in St Petersburg had been handed over to state entity NAMI, with Moscow snapping up more assets from global auto...
Mar 31, 2023
U.N. human rights chief decries ‘shockingly routine’ abuses in Ukraine war
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk deplored on Friday how grave human rights violations were "shockingly routine" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said the number ...
Mar 31, 2023
Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 50.3% in March
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 50.3% in March from 50.6% in February, the statistics department said on Friday. The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI...
Mar 31, 2023
India’s external debt rises to $613.1 billion as of end-Dec – Govt
(Reuters) - India's external debt rose 1.2% quarter-on-quarter to $613.1 billion as of end-December, the government said in a statement on Friday. The country's external debt-to-GDP ratio stood at the...
Mar 31, 2023
Asia M&As drop to decade low as tumultuous backdrop deters dealmaking
By Kane Wu and Yantoultra Ngui HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Asia-Pacific region fell to a decade low in the first three months of this year as a tumultuous geopolitical ...
Mar 31, 2023
Biden to announce federal funding for Mississippi tornado recovery on Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's ...
Mar 31, 2023
BBC names John Hardie to lead review of social media guidelines
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BBC on Friday named former television executive John Hardie to review its social media guidance for freelancers, after its existing policies came under fire following a ro...
Mar 31, 2023
Markets in Q1: Moving fast and breaking things
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - From a red-hot January as China cast off COVID curbs to February's flop when interest rates surged and now a manic March of banking blow-ups - financial markets have h...
Mar 31, 2023
Portage Northern student sues over graduation date
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Portage Northern High School senior is suing the school for scheduling graduation on May 26, which is Shavuot. The Jewish holiday celebrates when God gave the Torah ...
Mar 31, 2023
Ex-Kosovo guerrilla chief, president Thaci faces war crimes trial on Monday
By Fatos Bytyci and Ivana Sekularac PRISTINA (Reuters) - Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, considered a hero by compatriots for leading the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule that led to inde...
Mar 31, 2023
