Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Baseball-Ohtani signs one-year, $30-million deal with Angels to avoid arbitration
(Reuters) - The Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a one-year, $30-million contract with Japanese two-way standout Shohei Ohtani as part of an agreement that avoids arbitration, the Major League Baseba...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
U.S. citizen allowed to leave Iranian prison for a week -lawyer
By Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi (Reuters) - Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been ...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Germany's RWE buys Con Edison renewable portfolio for $6.8 billion
By Thomas Escritt and Christoph Steitz BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's largest power producer RWE AG said on Saturday it had agreed to buy Con Edison Inc's Clean Energy Businesses subsidiary for $6.8 bill...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Iran, U.S. prisoner swap mediated by regional state -Nournews
DUBAI (Reuters) -A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," Iran's Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Irani...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Nigeria would consider China's C919 plane for new airline
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Nigeria would consider buying China's newly-certified C919 passenger jet as it grows the country's fledgling carrier Nigeria Air to 30 planes by around 2025, Aviation Minister Had...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
EU ambassador leaves Nicaragua in week of diplomatic tensions
(Reuters) - European Union Ambassador Bettina Muscheidt left Nicaragua on Saturday, just three days after being declared "persona non grata" by the government of President Daniel Ortega, in a week of ...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
IAEA says its chief is expected to visit Moscow and Kyiv next week
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi is expected to hold talks in Moscow and Kyiv next week on the creation of a protection zone around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear po...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Germany says it will supply Ukraine with air defence system in days
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will deliver the first of four advanced IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming days to help ward off drone attacks, its defence minister Christine Lambrecht sai...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Blinken holds call with Saudi foreign minister over Yemen truce
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Saturday with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud to discuss the imminent expiration of the U.N.-medi...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
Booking.com adds safety advisory for West Bank properties
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Online travel agency Booking.com has added safety labels to listings in the occupied West Bank, which Israel, having initially opposed the move, welcomed for not singling out Jew...
Thomson Reuters Oct 01, 2022
