Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Saudi executions rose sharply in 2024
By Pesha Magid RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman's 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
Big banks planning to sue US Fed over annual stress tests, CNBC reports
(Reuters) - Major banks are planning to sue the U.S. Federal Reserve over the annual stress tests conducted by the regulator, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. A laws...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
US bank, business groups sue Fed over stress test framework
(Reuters) - Groups representing U.S. banks and businesses said on Tuesday they were suing the Federal Reserve to challenge what they described as the "opaque aspects of the stress testing framework." ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
China's WuXi to sell Advanced Therapies unit to US private equity firm
(Reuters) - China's WuXi AppTec said on Tuesday its subsidiaries have signed a deal with U.S.-based private equity firm Altaris LLC for the sale of its cell and gene therapy manufacturing unit, WuXi A...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
India's small businesses added 11 million jobs in 2023/24
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The number of jobs in small Indian businesses comprising manufacturing, trade and services rose to 120.6 million in 2023/24 from 109.6 million a year earlier, acco...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
American Airlines grounds all US flights on busy Christmas Eve
(Reuters) -American Airlines on Tuesday grounded all its flights in the U.S. due to an unspecified technical issue, according to the company and a regulatory notice, disrupting the travel plans of tho...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
Global hunger monitor says famine in war-torn Sudan is spreading
By Ryan McNeill, Nafisa Eltahir, Lena Masri, Khalid Abdelaziz and Deborah Nelson LONDON/CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - RCOM_World_Africa BLUSA1M OZATPM OUSHEM Famine in Sudan has expanded to five areas and w...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
Israeli forces kill one Palestinian in West Bank refugee camp
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a dawn raid on Tuesday on a refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
Israeli army forces patients out of a north Gaza hospital, medics say
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024
Syrian ex-rebel factions agree to merge under defence ministry
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa reached an agreement on Tuesday with former rebel faction chiefs to dissolve all groups and consolidate them under the defence ministry, acc...
Thomson Reuters Dec 24, 2024