Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Shortages cast shadow over Britain's Black Friday
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's retailers are hoping Black Friday discount day will get shoppers spending, though it takes place against a backdrop of shortages of both products and driver...
Nov 26, 2021
Bitcoin slumps as coronavirus variant shakes markets
By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) -Bitcoin tumbled almost 8% on Friday after the discovery of a new, potentially vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant saw investors dump riskier assets for the perceived ...
Nov 26, 2021
Olympics-Brazil's Nuzman sentenced to 30 years in jail for Rio 2016 corruption
(Reuters) - Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Oly...
Nov 26, 2021
Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border he won't make them go home
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told migrants stranded at the border with Poland on Friday that his country would help them to return home if they wanted but would not force ...
Nov 26, 2021
Israeli PM warns of state of emergency due to new coronavirus variant
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met health experts on Friday to discuss how best to respond to a new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa that ...
Nov 26, 2021
India to push for patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines at WTO
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will lead demands for an intellectual property rights waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and supplies at a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting next week, two go...
Nov 26, 2021
China's food delivery giant Meituan posts third-quarter loss
By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reported a fourth consecutive quarterly loss on Friday, as it plowed more investment into expanding its various businesses. Tencen...
Nov 26, 2021
Motor racing: Formula One renews deal with Spain until 2026
(Reuters) - Formula One has renewed its contract with Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the Spanish Grand Prix until 2026, it announced on Friday. F1 said in a statement that as part of the new agree...
Nov 26, 2021
China central bank allows set-up of credit scoring venture backed by Ant, state firms
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Friday it had accepted the application to set up a personal credit-scoring joint venture backed by Alibaba's fintech affiliate Ant Group and other firm...
Nov 26, 2021
Exclusive-Geely unit Lotus Tech aims to raise up to $500 million in funds - CFO
By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Lotus Technology, a new unit of China's Geely set up to develop the technology to power Lotus sports cars, is planning to raise $400 million to $500 million before t...
Nov 26, 2021
