Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Taliban forces in Kabul airport ready to take over -Taliban officials
(Reuters) - Taliban forces have taken up position in Kabul airport and are ready to take full control as early as this weekend, as soon as U.S. forces leave, two senior Taliban figures said on Friday....
Aug 27, 2021
Exclusive-Japan’s Inpex sells Venezuela oil and gas assets to local group -sources
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Japanese oil company Inpex Corp sold two Venezuelan oil and gas assets to Caracas-based Sucre Energy Group, three people familiar with the transaction said, as multinational f...
Aug 27, 2021
‘You have seen the outrageous and achieved incredible things’, Germany tells troops
WUNSTORF (Reuters) - The last German troops returned to the northern air base of Wunstorf on Friday, after evacuating more than 5,300 people from 45 nations out of Kabul airport over the past 11 days....
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. administers 366.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 366,838,484 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 437,567,285 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Aug 27, 2021
Powell’s wait-and-see speech reassures some investors
By Karen Pierog and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Fed Chair Jerome Powell's wait-and-see approach in a much-anticipated address on Friday gave investors and market participants so...
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. intelligence community still divided on COVID-19’s origin -summary
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. intelligence community failed to resolve a sharp debate within the Biden administration over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of ...
Aug 27, 2021
Western Digital $20 billion all-stock offer for Kioxia poses valuation, cash challenge – analysts
By Chavi Mehta (Reuters) - A possible merger between storage hardware maker Western Digital Corp with its Japanese partner and chipmaker Kioxia Holdings could create a NAND memory chipmaking giant tha...
Aug 27, 2021
ESPN explores sports-betting deal worth at least $3 billion – WSJ
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's ESPN is looking to license its brand to major sports-betting companies for at least $3 billion over several years to take advantage of the booming online betting industry,...
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. aims to prevent Afghan aid going through Taliban coffers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will continue to be a "very generous" donor of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and will aim to prevent any of its assistance from passing through Taliban...
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. reports world’s first deer with COVID-19
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it had confirmed the world's first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease. The U....
Aug 27, 2021
