Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Lufthansa repays 1.5 billion euros of state aid after cash call
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa said on Monday it had wrapped up a 2.16 billion euro ($2.5 billion) capital increase and used the proceeds to repay 1.5 billion euros in state...
Oct 11, 2021
Stellantis to rationalise its plants in Turin, union says
MILAN (Reuters) - French-Italian carmaker Stellantis will move the assembly line of its Grugliasco plant close to Turin to nearby Mirafiori to increase efficiency, the FIM CISL union said on Monday. A...
Oct 11, 2021
Commonwealth Games-Only two compulsory sports as Games set for major revamp
(Reuters) - Athletics and Swimming are set to be the only compulsory sports at future Commonwealth Games under a proposed "strategic roadmap" to give hosts more flexibility, increase the event's appea...
Oct 11, 2021
Turkey registers 30,563 new COVID-19 cases, highest since April 30
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey logged 30,563 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest number of daily infections since April 30, health ministry data showed. Turkey recorded 188 deaths from the virus in...
Oct 11, 2021
South African metalworkers’ strike hits output at BMW plant
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Output at luxury carmaker BMW's main vehicle assembly plant in South Africa has been hit by a wage strike in the engineering sector by the country's biggest metalworkers union, a...
Oct 11, 2021
U.N. chief: Liquidity needed to stem Afghanistan economic, humanitarian crises
By Jonathan Landay (Reuters) - The international community must find ways to inject cash directly into Afghanistan's economy to avert its total collapse as a growing humanitarian crisis impacts half t...
Oct 11, 2021
France bans plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables
By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. ...
Oct 11, 2021
Accused Colorado supermarket shooter deemed mentally incompetent
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Psychologists who evaluated a 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Colorado grocery store in March have found him incompetent to stand trial, ...
Oct 11, 2021
Facebook’s oversight board to meet with whistleblower Frances Haugen
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board, a body set up by the social network to give independent verdicts on a small number of thorny content decisions, said on Monday it would meet with former emp...
Oct 11, 2021
Shi’ite cleric Sadr comes first in Iraq election – officials, sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's party swept an Iraqi election on Monday, coming first and increasing the number of seats he holds in parliament, according to initial results, offi...
Oct 11, 2021
