Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK’s Sunak to announce one-year spending plan on Nov. 25
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would announce a one-year plan for government spending on Nov. 25, which would focus on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Oct 28, 2020
Under-pressure German COVID-19 lab produces run of false positive tests
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's government defended the accuracy of its coronavirus testing procedures on Wednesday, after a Bavarian laboratory delivered a run of false positives that it blamed on press...
Oct 28, 2020
UPS quarterly profit beats as pandemic spurs home deliveries
(Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc beat profit expectations on Wednesday, helped by a surge in home deliveries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Average daily volumes in the United States rose 13.8% on...
Oct 28, 2020
Bank of England gives banks breathing space over crisis plans
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main banks will have extra time before they have to say publicly how they could be closed down in a crisis, the Bank of England proposed on Wednesday. Banks were required ...
Oct 28, 2020
New Jersey congressman Van Drew, who ditched Democrats for Trump, battling to keep seat
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said New Jersey congressman Jeff Van Drew had "guts" when he abandoned the Democratic Party to join the Republicans, while an opponent n...
Oct 28, 2020
Malaysia reports 801 new coronavirus cases, eight new deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry reported 801 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, raising the cumulative total to 29,441 infections. The Southeast Asian country also recorded eight ...
Oct 28, 2020
Cross-examination of witnesses in Huawei CFO’s U.S. extradition case enters third day
By Moira Warburton (Reuters) - Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and the Canadian government are on Wednesday expected to cross examine more witnesses involved with Meng's 2018 a...
Oct 28, 2020
Spy agency ducks questions about ‘back doors’ in tech products
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place so-called back doors in...
Oct 28, 2020
Analysis: Biden would face uncertain path to detente with wary Iran
By Parisa Hafezi and Arshad Mohammed DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the "dangerous failure" of President Donald Trump's maximum pressure policy on Iran should he w...
Oct 28, 2020
‘Baffled’ and ‘scared,’ U.S. felons face hurdles after regaining right to vote
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Nine years after completing a prison sentence for a gang-related shooting, Angel Sanchez cast his first ballot in a U.S. presidential election on Saturday, one of a growing num...
Oct 28, 2020
