Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Civil war victor brought down by protests
By Alasdair Pal (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw a ruthless crushing of Tamil Tiger guerrillas to end a long-running civil war and went on to become president, had been due to s...
Jul 12, 2022
Oil prices slip on anticipated U.S. inventory build amid demand worries
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - Oil prices fell in early Asian trading on Wednesday as U.S. inventory data showed buildups in crude oil and refined products amid rising fears of a global economic slowdo...
Jul 12, 2022
U.S. state Vermont regulator says Celsius lacks assets to repay customers, creditors
(Reuters) - Vermont's Department Of Financial Regulation on Tuesday said troubled crypto lender Celsius is "deeply insolvent" and lacks the assets and liquidity to honor its obligations to customers a...
Jul 12, 2022
Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of c...
Jul 12, 2022
Timeline: How Sri Lankan protests unfolded
(Reuters) - A deep financial crisis has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for imports of food, medicine and fuel and brought thousands of protesters on to the streets. On Wednesday, a government source...
Jul 12, 2022
Texas newspaper posts video of police responding to Uvalde shooting
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A Texas newspaper on Tuesday posted video of police and federal agents responding to the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school in May, footage at the center of a debate a...
Jul 12, 2022
Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted...
Jul 12, 2022
S. Carolina lawyer expected to be charged in murders of wife, son – NY Times
(Reuters) - The South Carolina attorney previously charged with allegedly orchestrating a plot to have himself shot last year in an insurance scheme is expected to be indicted later this week on murde...
Jul 12, 2022
Mexico to purchase U.S. milk and fertilizer, U.S. and Mexican presidents say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexico plans to purchase up to 20,000 tons of milk powder and up to one million tons of ammonium sulfate fertilizer from the United States, the presidents of Mexico and the Unit...
Jul 12, 2022
Twitter seeks four-day trial in mid-Sept over $44 billion Musk deal
WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Twitter Inc asked a Delaware court to schedule a four-day trial in mid-September over Elon Musk's attempt to terminate his agreed $44 billion deal to acquire the social med...
Jul 12, 2022
