Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: Stick or twist? Azerbaijan looks to drive home Nagorno-Karabakh gains
By Robin Paxton and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber (Reuters) - A recent rallying cry by the ethnic Armenian leader of Nagorno-Karabakh contained a startling admission: enemy troops were no more than five ki...
Oct 30, 2020
Iceland further tightens measures to curb COVID-19
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Iceland further tightened its restrictions to curb a spike in coronavirus infections on Friday, lowering its limit on public gatherings to 10 people from 20 and suspending sport...
Oct 30, 2020
Polish PM says over 70s should stay at home for next two weeks
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish people over 70 years old should stay at home for the next two weeks, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawecki said on Friday. On Friday Poland reported a fourth consecutive daily rec...
Oct 30, 2020
Polish cemeteries closed on All Saints Day due to COVID risk
WARSAW (Reuters) - Cemeteries will be closed on All Saints Day on Sunday, as well as on Saturday and Monday, due to surging COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday. On Friday ...
Oct 30, 2020
Analysis: Dueling pre-election bets playing out in U.S. Treasury market
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $20 trillion U.S. Treasury market is showing signs of life after months of sleepy trading, as opposing bets on how the econom...
Oct 30, 2020
Pakistani police fire teargas at protesters trying to approach French Embassy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police on Friday briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against...
Oct 30, 2020
Black actor Turner-Smith to play English queen Anne Boleyn in new drama
LONDON (Reuters) - Black British actor Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn, wife of English King Henry VIII whom he had beheaded, in a three-part psychological thriller commissioned by TV statio...
Oct 30, 2020
Alibaba-owned Lazada suffers data hack of 1.1 million accounts
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore e-commerce firm Lazada said on Friday that personal information including addresses and partial credit card numbers from 1.1 million accounts had been hacked, a major b...
Oct 30, 2020
Exclusive: Goldman money funds’ liquidity buffer swells before U.S. election
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Two Goldman Sachs Group Inc money-market funds, whipsawed in March by billions of dollars of investor withdrawals, have steadily amassed a liquidity cushion much l...
Oct 30, 2020
Kenyan court jails two men for 2013 Westgate mall attack
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - A court in Kenya sentenced two men on Friday to 18 years in prison for helping al Shabaab gunmen in a 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall that killed...
Oct 30, 2020
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