Author Archives: Syndicated Content
South Africa court resumes ex-leader Zuma's protracted arms deal trial
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court on Tuesday resumed a trial that has dragged out for years over a $2 billion arms deal involving ex-president Jacob Zuma, whose legal team was expected to...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
Exclusive: India plan for tighter e-commerce rules faces internal government dissent - documents
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's plan to tighten rules on its fast-growing e-commerce market has run into internal government dissent, memos reviewed by Reuters show, with the Ministry of...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
Swedish Riksbank holds course, no rush to exit pandemic policies
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's central bank kept policy unchanged on Tuesday and said it expected its key interest rate to remain at zero in the coming few years, despite a recent up-...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
Golf-Europe not rattled by underdog label ahead of Ryder Cup, says Fleetwood
(Reuters) - Europe may be viewed as the underdogs in the forthcoming Ryder Cup compared to their American opponents, but Tommy Fleetwood said his team will head into the biennial competition starting ...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
India seizes $2.7 billion Afghan heroin haul amid Kabul takeover chaos
By Sumit Khanna and Zeba Siddiqui AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Indian officials said on Tuesday they had seized nearly three tonnes of heroin originating from Afghanistan worth an estimated 200 billion rupee...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
France weighs Australia options, urges Britain to restore trust
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France is assessing all options in response to Australia's scrapping of a $40 billion submarine contract, French European affairs minister Clement Beaune said on Tuesday, while ur...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
Crop merchant Louis Dreyfus posts jump in first-half profit
PARIS (Reuters) -Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) reported on Tuesday a sharp rise in first-half profit, a further sign that climbing commodity prices and strong demand for staple crops are boosting earnin...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
European rights court rules Russia was behind Litvinenko killing
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of Alexander Litvinenko who died an agonising death after he was poisoned in Lon...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
Migrants on school buses? Texas town feels caught in the middle
By Alexandra Ulmer DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) - Many residents of the Texan border town of Del Rio have been saying for months that they feel abandoned by the federal government as border arrests hit 20...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
George Holliday, who shot video of police beating Rodney King, dies
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - George Holliday, the plumber who shot video of Los Angeles police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died at a hospital in California due to complic...
Thomson Reuters Sep 21, 2021
