Author Archives: Syndicated Content

By Charlotte Van Campenhout KASTERLEE, Belgium (Reuters) - Hundreds of competitors, many dressed up as pirates, nuns, animals or vegetables, climbed into carved-out pumpkins and paddled them around a ...

(Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed in an air strike during a concert held by an ethnic minority group in conflict with the ruling military, opposition groups, residents and media said on Monda...

LONDON (Reuters) - Three former executives at Russian online bank Tinkoff have raised $16 million to launch a fintech start-up focused on Southeast Asia and initially targeting the Philippines, they s...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - While financial markets judged the outcome of China's Communist Party Congress harshly on Monday, on China's internet the only permitted response has been full-...

By Humphrey Malalo and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam NAIROBI/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A well-known Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif, was shot dead in Kenya when police hunting car thieves opened fir...

(Reuters) -Medtronic Inc said on Monday it would spin off its patient monitoring and respiratory interventions businesses into a new company, as it seeks to have a more streamlined portfolio. The sepa...

(Reuters) -Japan's Sumitomo Pharma Co and its subsidiary said on Sunday they would purchase the remaining shares of Myovant Sciences at an improved $27 per share, after the U.S. drugmaker rejected a l...

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - In a country where events are planned to minute detail and politics is cloaked in secrecy, former President Hu Jintao's dramatic escorted exit from the closi...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's national anti-corruption agency declared former central bank governor Kyrylo Shevchenko a wanted man on Monday along with two employees of the Ukrgazbank lender, on suspicio...

By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's chip imports fell 12.4 percent in September, according to official customs data published on Monday, continuing a decline amid tensions with the United Sta...