Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Battle of the battlements – Jerusalem walls used as political canvas
By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The ramparts of Jerusalem, built for battle, were commandeered for a messaging war between Israelis and Palestinians in the build-up to Israel's normalisation ...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. lawmakers raise questions about proposed Bytedance-Oracle deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers of both major parties voiced skepticism about a proposed deal between Oracle and China's Bytedance that appears to stop short of a full sale of Bytedance's popula...
Sep 15, 2020
Madonna to direct and co-write a movie about her life
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop music superstar Madonna will direct and co-write a movie about her life for Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures, the studio said in a statement on Tuesday. Madonna, 62, will ...
Sep 15, 2020
TikTok to become standalone U.S. company: FT
(Reuters) - ByteDance will place short-video app TikTok's global business in a new US-headquartered company with Oracle Corp investing as a minority shareholder, the Financial times reported https://w...
Sep 15, 2020
Roglic and Pogacar ready for all-Slovenian showdown on brutal climb
By Julien Pretot VILLARD DE LANS, France (Reuters) - Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar are bracing themselves for a day of reckoning on the Tour de France as Wednesday's brutal 17th stage could decide w...
Sep 15, 2020
Exclusive: Britain has moved to break fisheries deadlock in Brexit trade talks – EU sources
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain offered tentative concessions on fisheries in trade talks with the European Union last week, two diplomatic sources told Reuters, just as London was ...
Sep 15, 2020
Staying home: Drop in foreign students bad omen for Canada’s labor market
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Travel restrictions and a shift to online learning has dramatically cut the number of international students expected to attend Canadian universities and colleges th...
Sep 15, 2020
JPMorgan sends some traders home after worker contracts COVID-19: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co sent some of its Manhattan workers home this week after an employee in equities trading tested positive for COVID-19, Bloomberg news reported on Tuesday, citing a perso...
Sep 15, 2020
Pfizer says late-stage coronavirus vaccine study shows moderate side effects
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday participants were showing mild-to-moderate side effects when given either the company's experimental coronavirus vaccine or a placebo in an ongoing late-stage st...
Sep 15, 2020
Perpetual recession? Recovery in a year? For Fed, forecasters, a canyon-like split
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year from now the United States may have emerged from the economic hole dug during the pandemic with growth smartly above its previous trend and output lar...
Sep 15, 2020
