Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Factbox: Peru’s presidential lineup: graft probes, suicide and impeachment
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru, the world's No.2 copper producer and for years one of Latin America's fastest growing economies, has seen a litany of presidents ousted from office or imprisoned...
Nov 12, 2020
Golf: Nicklaus clubs away question about his support for Trump
By Andrew Both AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Two weeks after wading into turbulent political waters by publicly supporting President Donald Trump in the U.S. election and warning the country against turnin...
Nov 12, 2020
Spain’s Catalonia to keep bars, restaurants shut another ten days to curb COVID-19
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Restaurants, bars and shopping malls will remain closed in Catalonia for at least another ten days to rein in the COVID-19 pandemic, regional officials said on Thursday. Unlike m...
Nov 12, 2020
Sweden plays down immunity hopes as second COVID-19 wave gathers force
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Immunity to COVID-19 in Sweden is likely lower than previously estimated, the country's top epidemiologist and architect of its unorthodox pandemic strategy said on Thursday, as ...
Nov 12, 2020
Russian court frees U.S. investor Calvey and colleagues from house arrest: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's supreme court has ruled that U.S. investor Michael Calvey and other executives of private equity firm Baring Vostok be released from house arrest, the RIA news agency repor...
Nov 12, 2020
Canada condemns removal of Hong Kong lawmakers as assault on its freedoms
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada condemned China's decision to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong as an assault on the former British colony's freedoms, and is making an announcement later on Thursd...
Nov 12, 2020
BMW CEO says sees Toyota alliance going beyond 2025
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - BMW Chief Executive Oliver Zipse on Thursday said he would seek to strengthen bonds with Toyota and wants the current alliance between the German and Japanese carmaker centred on...
Nov 12, 2020
WHO says in talks with Russian institute on Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is in discussions with the Russian institute that developed the Sputnik V candidate vaccine against COVID-19 over its potential application for e...
Nov 12, 2020
Nigeria lawsuit against JP Morgan over oil deal to go to trial: court
By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - A lawsuit launched by the Nigerian government against U.S. bank JP Morgan Chase, claiming over $1.7 billion for its role in a disputed 2011 oilfield deal, will procee...
Nov 12, 2020
Iran says it captured Arab separatist group leader suspected of military parade attack
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist leader suspected of involvement in an attack on a military parade in 2018 in the Khuzestan province that k...
Nov 12, 2020
