Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China says pope’s remarks about “persecuted” Uighurs are groundless
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday dismissed Pope Francis's criticism of China's treatment of Muslim Uighurs as groundless. In a new book "Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better F...
Nov 24, 2020
Britain warns tech firms over risks of China expansion
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government launched a website on Tuesday warning digital and technology firms of the ethical, legal and commercial risks of expanding into China and accepting Chinese in...
Nov 24, 2020
Swedish prosecutors receive request to reopen 1994 ferry sinking investigation
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had received a request to reopen an investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia that killed 852 people, based on new informa...
Nov 24, 2020
PM Conte tells Italians to avoid skiing at Christmas due to COVID-19 risk
ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned Italians not to ski during the Christmas holidays to help curb a second wave of the new coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000....
Nov 24, 2020
Tech giants ask Malaysia PM to reinstate foreign ship cable waiver: report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft, Google and Facebook have asked Malaysia's Prime Minister to reinstate an exemption allowing non-Malaysian ships to carry out repairs to submarine cables in the coun...
Nov 24, 2020
Saudi-led coalition destroys five mines laid by Yemen’s Houthis in Red Sea – Saudi TV
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said it had destroyed five mines laid by the Iran-aligned group in the Red Sea, Saudi state TV reported on Tuesday. The mines ar...
Nov 24, 2020
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to be cheaper than rivals, says fund head
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will charge less for its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine than rivals as Moscow aims to produce more than 1 billion doses at home and abroad next year, the head of Russia's soverei...
Nov 24, 2020
Poland finds eight coronavirus cases among farmed minks
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish scientists have identified eight cases of COVID-19 in minks at a farm in the north of the country, the Medical University of Gdansk said on Tuesday. No coronavirus cases amon...
Nov 24, 2020
Bitcoin hits $19,000 for first time in three years
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin hit $19,000 on Tuesday for the first time in nearly three years and was just shy touching an all-time high of just under $20,000. The world's most popular cryptocurrency has...
Nov 24, 2020
China announces eradication of extreme poverty in last poor counties
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has removed the last remaining counties from a list of poor regions, in what officials described as achieving President Xi Jinping's longstanding political goal of eliminatin...
Nov 24, 2020
