Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China says looking into unfair competition on e-commerce platforms: Xinuha
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's market regulator and other government departments have launched an exercise focused on e-commerce, with plans to crack down on areas such as unfair competition and the ill...
Oct 24, 2020
Indonesian unions vow mass protests if president signs jobs law
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's workers will stage further mass protests across the country if President Joko Widodo signs new jobs measures into law next week, the head of the main labour group said ...
Oct 24, 2020
French Open winner Swiatek to quarantine after contact with COVID-19
WARSAW (Reuters) - French Open winner Iga Swiatek said on Saturday she feels good, but will quarantine, after she met Polish President Andrzej Duda who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus. "N...
Oct 24, 2020
Ethiopia says it will not cave to ‘aggression’ in dam dispute
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Saturday that threats of any kind towards resolving a dispute with its neighbours over the filling and operation of a massive hydropower dam were "misguided, unpro...
Oct 24, 2020
Egypt begins voting to elect new parliament
CAIRO (Reuters) - Polls opened in Egypt on Saturday for parliamentary elections that will stretch over several weeks and are set to be dominated by supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A firs...
Oct 24, 2020
IOC chief Bach says Olympic Games cannot be ‘marketplace of demonstrations’
(Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the Olympic Games are not about politics and must guard against becoming a "marketplace of demonstrations". Against the bac...
Oct 24, 2020
New clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh after Washington talks
By Nailia Bagirova and Vladimir Soldatkin BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to en...
Oct 24, 2020
Iran says U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal secured by ‘ransom’
(Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as "phoney" and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it f...
Oct 24, 2020
Nurmagomedov can be greatest of all time, says UFC’s White
(Reuters) - UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov can take a step closer to becoming the greatest of all time (GOAT) in his class if he beats Justin Gaethje at UFC 254, the mixed martial arts p...
Oct 24, 2020
Czech Republic’s coronavirus daily tally tops 15,000 for first time
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic reported 15,252 new cases of coronavirus for Oct. 23, its highest daily tally, as the country faces Europe's fastest spread of the infection. The total number of ...
Oct 24, 2020
