Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turkey’s Karpowership shuts down power to Lebanon
By Edmund Blair and Can Sezer BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's Karpowership, which provides electricity to Lebanon from two barges, said on Friday it was shutting down supplies over payment arrear...
May 14, 2021
Mizuho profit beats estimates, sees credit costs halving this year
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group Inc reported on Friday its net profit more than doubled for the fourth quarter, during which it suffered some system failures and booked a trading loss...
May 14, 2021
Japan’s exports seen posting largest monthly gain since 2010 – Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports likely grew more than 30% year-on-year in April, the most in more than a decade, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, but the base effect was a major factor after last ye...
May 14, 2021
Exclusive: TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is weighing plans to pump tens of billions of dollars more into cutting-edge chip factories in the U.S. state of Arizona than it had...
May 14, 2021
Big promises, few doses: why Russia’s struggling to make Sputnik V doses
By Polina Nikolskaya and Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Transforming the site of what once was a Soviet-era car factory into a state-of-the-art facility churning out Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputn...
May 14, 2021
Origins of COVID-19 need to be investigated further, leading scientists say
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and there is not yet enough evidence to say conclusively if it occurred naturally or was caused by a labora...
May 14, 2021
Analysis: Gas faces existential crisis in climate wary Europe
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Europe faces the prospect of higher electricity bills and a supply crunch, as utilities struggle to finance new gas-fired power plants unless they meet tougher emis...
May 14, 2021
Egypt’s road building drive eases jams but leaves some unhappy
By Nadeen Ebrahim and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - At weekends, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is often driven out to a road construction site in Cairo where he is pictured surveying stretch...
May 14, 2021
Apple supplier Foxconn’s profit surges past estimates amid work from home boom
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple, on Friday reported first-quarter profit jumped 13-fold amid the work-from-home trend spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that has s...
May 14, 2021
NBA roundup: Suns get by Blazers on Devin Booker’s late FTs
Devin Booker made two free throws with 2.4 seconds left as the Phoenix Suns edged the Portland Trail Blazers 118-117 on Thursday night. Chris Paul recorded 26 points and seven assists and Mikal Bridge...
May 14, 2021
