Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Russia expands U.S. sanctions list to include Biden's wife and daughter
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday expanded its U.S. 'stop-list', including in it the wife and daughter of President Joe Biden as well as other prominent figures. The step was taken "as a response t...
Jun 28, 2022
Tencent to explore hardware opportunities with extended reality unit
By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Tencent Holdings said it saw multiple opportunities to explore extended reality (XR) technologies in the next 4-5 years and that it had set up a unit focused o...
Jun 28, 2022
Verdict expected Wednesday in trial of Paris 2015 attacks
By LEA GUEDJ PARIS (Reuters) - The trial of suspects in the attack that killed 130 people across Paris in 2015 will come to an end on Wednesday when judges hand in their verdict, in what victims said ...
Jun 28, 2022
Exclusive: PetroChina may sell Australian, Canadian assets to stem losses - sources
By Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - PetroChina may sell out from natural gas projects in Australia and oil sands in Canada to stem losses and divert funds to more lucrative sites in the Middle East, A...
Jun 28, 2022
Jobs in U.S. energy sector rose in 2021, work in low-carbon vehicles leads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs in the U.S. energy business rose 4% last year, at a faster clip than the country's overall private sector, led by work in low-carbon vehicles, while positions in fossil fue...
Jun 28, 2022
Germany backs EU fossil fuel car phaseout, with tweak
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Germany can support a European Union proposal to effectively ban new fossil fuel car sales from 2035, if an option is added to allow sales of cars running on "CO2 neutral" fuels...
Jun 28, 2022
White House says companies investing $700 million to boost EV charger production
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that companies are planning to invest more than $700 million to boost U.S. manufacturing capacity for electric vehicle (EV) ch...
Jun 28, 2022
From Peru to Uganda, activists call on Deutsche Bank to drop fossil finance
By Tom Sims and Marta Orosz FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Climate activists from Peru to Uganda are descending on Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt this week to call on Germany's largest lender to sto...
Jun 28, 2022
Syria civilian death toll over 306,000 since 2011: UN
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011 in what it said was the highest estimate yet. U.N. ...
Jun 28, 2022
Britain's Johnson: We're working on getting Ukraine's grain out
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) - G7 leaders are working on finding a way of letting Ukraine export its grain, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday. "We're working on it, we're all wo...
Jun 28, 2022
