Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Vanguard says it supported more environmental and social resolutions
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) - Vanguard Group Inc said on Tuesday it supported environmental and socially focused shareholder resolutions 20% of the time this year, up from 6% in 2020, as climate change a...
Sep 21, 2021
Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 strikes near Melbourne, Australia– GFZ
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck near Melbourne in Australia on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) ...
Sep 21, 2021
Top global companies call for zero emmissions shipping by 2050
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - More than 150 leading companies and organisations including oil majors and port authorities on Wednesday called for the global shipping industry to be fully decarbo...
Sep 21, 2021
China Evergrande inches close to default deadline, investors wait
NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group, once China's top-selling property developer, inched closer to a key deadline where it risks a default on its bonds, but world markets were calmer...
Sep 21, 2021
Haitians in Port-au-Prince rush back to plane after deportation
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A group of Haitians who were deported to their homeland on a flight from the United States on Tuesday rushed back towards the plane after they disembarked in Port-au-Prince,...
Sep 21, 2021
UK calls on China and Russia to agree Afghanistan strategy
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday call for China and Russia to agree a coordinated international approach to prevent Afghanistan becoming a haven for militants, according to a statement by ...
Sep 21, 2021
Pret to serve suburbs, stations and motorways in shift from skyscrapers
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Coffee and sandwich chain Pret A Manger plans to double in size over the next five years, replacing a previous UK focus on offices with expansion in regional and subu...
Sep 21, 2021
INEOS to switch Grangemouth to hydrogen in $1.4 billion pursuit of net zero
LONDON (Reuters) - INEOS said on Wednesday it will convert its vast Scottish petrochemicals plant and oil refinery at Grangemouth to run on hydrogen at a cost of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billi...
Sep 21, 2021
Overseas Uyghurs struggle to locate relatives in Xinjiang prisons
By Cate Cadell URUMQI, China (Reuters) - When Ziba Murat last saw her mother, retired Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas, at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport in 2016, she begged her not to return to...
Sep 21, 2021
Philippines’ Duterte vows accountability for anyone who went ‘beyond bounds’ in drug war
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that anyone found to have "acted beyond bounds" in his campaign against illegal drugs would be held accountable under n...
Sep 21, 2021
