Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sudan releases prominent opposition figure -lawyer
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities have released the prominent opposition figure and former minister Khaled Omar Youssef on Tuesday, his lawyer told Reuters. Youssef was detained in February an...
Apr 26, 2022
Russian deputy PM hints at struggles facing top lender Sberbank
(Reuters) - Russia's top lender Sberbank is still trying to fund property developers in spite of "difficulties and losses" that the sanctioned bank is experiencing, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnul...
Apr 26, 2022
QUOTES-Wall Street clobbered, dragged down by Nasdaq and growth stocks
(Reuters) - The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street lower on Tuesday with a 3% slump, and the S&P 500 briefly fell 2%, as nerves ahead of earnings from megacap growth and technology companies added to c...
Apr 26, 2022
Ethiopian soldiers seek asylum in Sudan, fear returning home due to Tigrayan ethnicity
By Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 550 Ethiopian peacekeepers working in Sudan have sought asylum rather than return home for fear they will be persecuted due to their Tigrayan ethnicity, an...
Apr 26, 2022
A top French court overturns government-ordered mosque closure, a first
By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal from the Interior Ministry that aimed to close a mosque in the southwestern town of Pessac f...
Apr 26, 2022
Putin hopes talks with Ukraine will yield positive result
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine were continuing talks in an online format. At the start of his meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antoni...
Apr 26, 2022
Bank shareholder proposals to curb new fossil fuel lending get slim support
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall and Ross Kerber NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Shareholder proposals asking banks to take stronger action on climate change by ending new fossil fuel financing activities fail...
Apr 26, 2022
Britain says EU will struggle to shift euro clearing from London
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial services minister said on Tuesday that the European Union would find it hard to replace London for clearing trillions of euros in derivatives, and t...
Apr 26, 2022
Teladoc’s mental health unit in focus as cost concerns mount
By Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) - Teladoc Health's mental health services unit will grab focus when the largest U.S. telehealth company reports first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with investors worrie...
Apr 26, 2022
More than half of Americans have had COVID infections -antibody study
By Manas Mishra and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Following the record surge in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron-driven wave, some 58% of the U.S. population overall and more than 75% of younger chil...
Apr 26, 2022
