Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: Life without LVMH? How Tiffany might fare without the luxury giant
By Melissa Fares, Silvia Aloisi and Sarah White NEW YORK/MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) - LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group, has called off its $16-billion engagement to Tiffany. Wall Street however seems...
Sep 11, 2020
Vatican-based Filipino cardinal tests positive for coronavirus
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has become the highest-ranking Vatican official known to have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Vatican said on Friday that Tagle, 63, a Fil...
Sep 11, 2020
Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel, Israeli media say
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bahrain is to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel's public broadcaster Kan said in a tweet on Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli...
Sep 11, 2020
Second night of protests rocks Colombian capital; eleven dead
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Protests against police brutality in Colombia, which have rocked capital Bogota and satellite city Soacha for two nights, have left eleven dead and hundreds injure...
Sep 11, 2020
Altice shares soar on founder Drahi’s buyout offer
PARIS (Reuters) - Altice Europe's billionaire founder Patrick Drahi has offered to buy all the shares he does not already own in the telecoms and cable group, in a deal valuing the group at 4.9 billio...
Sep 11, 2020
Danske Bank admits it knew of erroneous debt collection for years
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danske Bank admitted on Friday it had known for years that it was collecting outdated or excessive debt from customers and had not properly addressed the problem. Denmark's fina...
Sep 11, 2020
First European ‘travel bubble’ ends as coronavirus cases rise in Estonia
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The first European pandemic "travel bubble", created in May by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, burst on Friday, as Latvia said it was mandating a 14-day quarantine on everyone arriv...
Sep 11, 2020
Trump administration seeks sweeping DNA collection of immigrants, U.S. sponsors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a sweeping expansion of its collection of DNA and other biometric data of immigrants, to go beyond detained migrants in orde...
Sep 11, 2020
Brazil freezes $43 million of assets in international drug trafficking probe
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities blocked assets worth 230 million reais ($43 million) as part of a probe into drug trafficking and money laundering in two countries, according to a statemen...
Sep 11, 2020
Visegrad Four want visa-free travel for Belarusians, says Polish PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Visegrad Four grouping of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia want to propose visa-free movement for Belarus citizens and a new support package for the country at a...
Sep 11, 2020
