Author Archives: Syndicated Content
World Bank cuts China growth outlook on COVID, property woes
BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Bank has cut its China growth outlook for this year and next, citing the impact of the abrupt loosening of strict COVID-19 containment measures and persistent property se...
Dec 20, 2022
British nurses walk out again, threaten further strikes in pay dispute
LONDON (Reuters) - Nurses in Britain went on strike for the second time this month on Tuesday, and their union threatened to escalate a dispute over pay by setting out further strike days if the gover...
Dec 20, 2022
Pakistan security forces launch operation to rescue hostages from militants – sources
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have on Tuesday launched an operation to free hostages from local Taliban militants at a counter-terrorism centre in the northwest of the count...
Dec 20, 2022
There should not be any ‘crash’ in French and European economy – ECB’s Villeroy
PARIS (Reuters) - The French and broader European economy should not suffer any "crash" or "hard landing", European Central Bank (ECB) member and Bank of France head Francois Villeroy de Galhau told B...
Dec 20, 2022
Sentiment among German exporters brightens for third month in a row – Ifo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Sentiment among German exporters rose for the third month in a row in December, reaching its best reading since June, according to a survey by the Ifo economic institute published o...
Dec 20, 2022
Malaysia’s 2022 GDP growth very likely to beat forecasts – PM
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday said the country's gross domestic product this year was very likely to exceed earlier projections of between 6.5% and 7%. "T...
Dec 20, 2022
NHL roundup: Blues’ Jordan Kyrou nets first hat trick
Jordan Kyrou collected his first career hat trick and added an assist to lead the visiting St. Louis Blues to a 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday. Nathan Walker and Robert Thomas, in a ...
Dec 20, 2022
Iranian, EU nuclear negotiators meet in Jordan – Iranian media
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister and top nuclear negotiator met with the European Union foreign policy chief and the EU official coordinating nuclear talks with Iran in Jordan on Tuesday, Ira...
Dec 20, 2022
Soccer-Argentina’s World Cup winners arrive home to hero’s welcome
(Reuters) - Thousands of ecstatic fans gave Argentina's football squad a hero's welcome in Buenos Aires in the early hours before dawn on Tuesday after the plane carrying Lionel Messi and his World Cu...
Dec 20, 2022
Japan’s manpower-light defence strategy is a flawed ‘paper plan’, officers say
By Kaori Kaneko and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's plan to undertake its biggest military build-up since World War Two without increasing headcount is flawed, former and serving officers told Reu...
Dec 20, 2022
