Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Rainwater Tech to list in New York via SPAC merger
By David French NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rain Enhancement Technologies Inc, a developer of systems that boost rainfall in arid regions, has agreed to combine with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC...
Dec 22, 2022
Exclusive-TikTok steps up efforts to clinch U.S. security deal
By Echo Wang and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm's length and subject it to outside scrutiny as it tr...
Dec 22, 2022
China to cut quarantine for overseas travelers from next month - Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - China plans to cut quarantine requirements for overseas travelers in January as the country dismantles the last vestiges of its 'COVID Zero' policy, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, ci...
Dec 22, 2022
Russia's No.2 lender VTB to buy rescued Otkritie Bank for $4.7 billion
By Alexander Marrow, Maria Kiselyova and Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Bank of Russia on Thursday agreed to sell bailed-out Otkritie Bank to the country's No.2 lender, state-owned VTB, for 3...
Dec 22, 2022
Armenia says food shortages hit Nagorno-Karabakh amid Azerbaijan blockade
TBILISI (Reuters) - The breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is running short of food due to a blockade now well into its second week, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was quoted as saying o...
Dec 22, 2022
EU-Ukraine summit set for Feb 3, location not decided
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chairman of the European Union's 27 leaders Charles Michel and the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will hold a summit with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zel...
Dec 22, 2022
Rosatom says talks with IAEA on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant safe zone to continue
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Rosatom state nuclear energy company said on Thursday that talks with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi about a safe zone around Ukraine's Russian-cont...
Dec 22, 2022
Factbox-Tesla's key managers in China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has tapped China chief Tom Zhu to troubleshoot production engineering challenges in the United States, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. They are wor...
Dec 22, 2022
Belarus's Lukashenko dismisses 'conspiracy theories' about manoeuvres
(Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that recent military manoeuvres were not aimed at Ukraine and dismissed "conspiracy theories" about deployments of Belarusian arm...
Dec 22, 2022
Al Shabaab militants kill two policemen, one civilian in eastern Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Al Shabaab fighters have attacked a police vehicle in eastern Kenya, killing two officers and one civilian, police and the armed group said. The truck was travelling from Hayley La...
Dec 22, 2022
