Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Olympics-Baseball-U.S. win relegates Dominican Republic to bronze-medal game
By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's baseball team will head to Saturday's bronze-medal game after falling 3-1 on Wednesday to the United States, which earned a chance t...
Aug 04, 2021
Olympics-Boxing-Turkey secure gold-medal shots as women boxers advance
By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - Top seeds Buse Naz Cakiroglu and Busenaz Surmeneli got unanimous semi-final victories in the boxing contest on Wednesday to give Turkey a shot at its first-ever women...
Aug 04, 2021
UK’s Taylor Wimpey raises annual outlook, swings to H1 profit
(Reuters) - UK homebuilder Taylor Wimpey Plc on Wednesday joined bigger rivals in forecasting sustained demand in the medium term and returned to a half-year profit as Britain's housing sector boom st...
Aug 04, 2021
South Korea COVID-19 count spikes amid vacations, spread of new variants
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections amid the spread of new virus variants ...
Aug 04, 2021
Olympics-Sailing-Belcher and Ryan win gold for Australia in men’s 470 sailing
By Philip O'Connor ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Matthew Belcher and Will Ryan of Australia stormed to victory in the medal race to take gold for Australia in the men's 470 sailing class at the Enoshima...
Aug 04, 2021
Singapore to double police cameras to more than 200,000 over next decade
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore aims to have more than 200,000 police cameras by at least 2030, Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said on Tuesday, over double the current number of cameras deploye...
Aug 04, 2021
Athenians told to stay inside as wildfires cloud city skies
By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek authorities told people in Athens to stay indoors on Wednesday as a wildfire raging uncontrolled north of the city covered the sky in a thick cloud of sm...
Aug 04, 2021
Rolls-Royce agrees sale of Norway’s Bergen for $131 million
LONDON (Reuters) - Rolls-Royce said it agreed to sell its Norwegian maritime engine business Bergen to UK-based Langley Holdings, in a deal which will boost the British aero-engine maker's finances by...
Aug 04, 2021
Explosion hits military bus in Damascus, injuries reported
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An explosion hit a military bus in Damascus early on Wednesday, and a number of people were reportedly wounded, state news agency SANA reported. The explosion happened in the bus wh...
Aug 04, 2021
Rothschild-backed RIT co-leads funding for crypto platform Aspen Digital
By Abhinav Ramnarayan LONDON (Reuters) - RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust founded by Jacob Rothschild, is co-leading a funding round for crypto investment platform Aspen Digital intended to ...
Aug 04, 2021
