Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Nutrien misses profit estimates as lower volumes blunt higher fertilizer prices
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Nutrien missed analysts' estimates for second-quarter profit on Wednesday as lower potash and nitrogen sales volumes offset the benefit of higher fertilizer prices at the world's lar...
Aug 06, 2026
South Korea province deploys drones to warn elderly farmers amid heatwave
By Hyeyoon Cho and Daewoung Kim ANDONG, South Korea, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Hwang Hyun-guk, a 69-year-old farmer in South Korea, often gets engrossed in tending his pepper crop. These days, however, as the...
Aug 06, 2026
Exclusive-Congo bans copper and cobalt concentrates exports, official order says
By Ange Kasongo and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila KINSHASA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned exports of copper concentrate and cobalt concentrate as it escalates efforts to fo...
Aug 06, 2026
Toronto home sales rise in July for fifth straight month
By Fergal Smith TORONTO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Greater Toronto Area home sales rose in July for a fifth straight month and prices increased, supported by recent signs of improvement in the domestic econom...
Aug 06, 2026
Congo intercepts passenger boat near Kinshasa that carried suspected Ebola case
DAKAR, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Congolese health authorities have intercepted a boat carrying 200 people to the capital Kinshasa after a passenger who had disembarked earlier died on July 25 after developing...
Aug 06, 2026
Sweden's top court clears way for transfer of seized ship to Ukraine
STOCKHOLM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Sweden's top court said on Thursday it has upheld a ruling that a cargo vessel seized in the Baltic Sea this year can be handed over to Ukraine, where it is suspected of i...
Aug 06, 2026
Germany detains Ukrainian suspected of spying on defence firm
BERLIN, Aug 6 (Reuters) - German prosecutors have detained a 33-year-old Ukrainian national suspected of gathering information on the premises of a defence company in southern Germany for sabotage pur...
Aug 06, 2026
As Pakistan's army chief turns on hardline Islamist groups, blasphemy cases plummet
By Asif Shahzad, Ariba Shahid, Mubasher Bukhari and Rick Noack ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - When blasphemy allegations against a Christian family prompted a mob of hundreds to assemble in Paki...
Aug 06, 2026
El Niño might cause fewer hurricanes in North America, limiting insurance losses, Zurich CEO says
Aug 6 (Reuters) - The development of El Nio climate phenomenon might limit catastrophe claims in North America, the CEO of Zurich Insurance said on Thursday after it reported second-quarter results. "...
Aug 06, 2026
Slump for UK builders abates in July, PMI shows
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The downturn in Britain's construction industry eased in July as commercial building and housebuilding weakened less sharply and builders turned the most optimistic since bef...
Aug 06, 2026
