Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa family tightens grip with ministerial picks
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday appointed his younger brother Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister, in a move that further tightened the family's grip over the i...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
If you go down to the palace today... you can have a picnic
LONDON (Reuters) - Visitors will be able to meander unaccompanied through the gardens of Queen Elizabeth's London home for the first time from Friday - and enjoy a picnic while they're there. There ha...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Airbus says delivered 297 airplanes in H1
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus delivered 297 airplanes in the first half of the year after a surge of handover activity in June, the European planemaker said on Thursday. Deliveries, which have been recover...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Exclusive: German artificial limb maker Ottobock plans blockbuster 2022 IPO - sources
By Arno Schuetze FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ottobock is preparing for a blockbuster stock market flotation in 2022 that could value the German artificial limb maker at more than 5 billion euros ($5.9 billi...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Instacart taps Facebook app head Simo as CEO
By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) - Instacart named Facebook Inc app head Fidji Simo as its chief executive officer on Thursday, adding big tech expertise ahead of an expected stock market listing by th...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
U.S. cases rising, mostly among unvaccinated - health officials
By Carl O'Donnell and Jeff Mason (Reuters) - U.S. COVID-19 cases are up around 11% over last week, almost entirely among people who have not been vaccinated, officials said on Thursday, as the highly ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Mexico central bank minutes show newest board member's doveish thinking
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Minutes from the Bank of Mexico's June 24 monetary policy meeting released on Thursday showed board members Galia Borja and Gerardo Esquivel breaking with the other three membe...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Hungarians speak out on anti-LGBT+ law as EU pushes for its repeal
By Arthur Neslen BRUSSELS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Hungarian law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools came into force on Thursday, as the European Parliament voted to use its lega...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
French film in Cannes follows a family's tussle with euthanasia
By Sarah White CANNES, France (Reuters) - French movie director Francois Ozon tackles the thorny issue of euthanasia in his latest movie at the Cannes Film Festival, with a story of two sisters grappl...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
Thai 'red shirt' leader ordered back to jail, cuts short comeback
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Thursday ordered a longtime political activist back to prison over an old offense, his lawyer said, months after he resumed street protests and demanded the resigna...
Thomson Reuters Jul 08, 2021
