Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Explainer: Who’s fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and why does it matter?
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - Fierce fighting has broken out between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a new and dangerous eruption of a decades-old conflict. WHERE AND W...
Sep 28, 2020
Pandemic boosting demand for plant-based foods, Nestle says
By Silke Koltrowitz KONOLFINGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Demand for plant-based foods has picked up during the coronavirus crisis as consumers try to eat more healthily and problems at some factories ...
Sep 28, 2020
GM will repay $28 million to Ohio in tax incentives after closing plant
(Reuters) - General Motors will repay $28 million in state tax incentives after it closed its Lordstown Assembly plant in March 2019, the state and automaker confirmed Monday. Under an agreement with ...
Sep 28, 2020
Togo president names Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister
LOME (Reuters) - Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister, the first woman to hold the position in the West African nation. Her appointment follows the ...
Sep 28, 2020
California wine country fire quadruples in size, more evacuations ordered
(Reuters) - A wildfire in northern California's Napa Valley wine country more than quadrupled in size overnight to 11,000 acres (4,500 hectares) as thousands of residents awoke to mandatory evacuation...
Sep 28, 2020
Key Pakistan opposition figure’s arrest political, party says
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's anti-graft agency arrested the parliamentary leader of the opposition on corruption charges on Monday after a court rejected a plea for bail...
Sep 28, 2020
Billionaire investor Peltz steps down as adviser at pot producer Aurora
(Reuters) - Aurora Cannabis Inc said on Monday billionaire investor Nelson Peltz has stepped down as adviser, adding to troubles at the Canadian pot producer reeling under the impact of the coronaviru...
Sep 28, 2020
Mussels need eating: some Marseille restaurants defy COVID shutdown
MARSEILLE (Reuters) - On the quayside of Marseille's Old Port in France, several restaurants on Monday defied a government order to shutdown for two weeks to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...
Sep 28, 2020
2019 runner-up Vondrousova out in first round in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - Last year's runner-up Marketa Vondrousova failed to last a round at the French Open when she was thrashed in little more than an hour by Poland's Iga Swiatek on Monday. The left-hand...
Sep 28, 2020
Mexican president offers witness protection in missing students probe
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government is seeking to grant protection to suspects who collaborate in a probe into the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students, President Andres Manuel Lo...
Sep 28, 2020
