Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Olympics: Calls grow to relocate 2022 Beijing Winter Games
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - With the Beijing Winter Games less than a year away, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) are looking closely at human rights abu...
Feb 16, 2021
Hedge fund Alden Global to take Tribune Publishing private in $630 million deal
(Reuters) - Tribune Publishing Co said on Tuesday its largest shareholder, Alden Global Capital, will buy shares it does not already own in the company at $17.25 each in cash and turn the owner of the...
Feb 16, 2021
Reports: Pirates sign starting pitcher Tyler Anderson
The Pittsburgh Pirates have reached a one-year deal with starting pitcher Tyler Anderson to help bolster their rotation, multiple outlets reported Tuesday. The deal, pending a physical, is worth $2.5 ...
Feb 16, 2021
Salesforce, Slack asked to provide additional information by DOJ's antitrust unit
(Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc and Slack Technologies Inc have received requests for additional information from the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice related to their $27.7 billion...
Feb 16, 2021
New Zealand reports two new local coronavirus cases ahead of Auckland lockdown decision
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand reported two new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, just hours before authorities are due to announce whether a lockdown in the cou...
Feb 16, 2021
Billions of pounds in the red, UK budget to have greenish hue
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak's annual budget on March 3 is set to have a green tinge, even as the country goes hundreds of billions of pounds into the red ...
Feb 16, 2021
Exclusive: BP offers employees shares in rallying cry for low-carbon shift
By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - Oil major BP is launching its first share award scheme to rally its more than 60,000 employees around CEO Bernard Looney's plan to shift to renew...
Feb 16, 2021
UK calls for conflict zone ceasefires to roll out vaccines
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday call for a United Nations resolution to help negotiate ceasefires so that people in conflict zones can be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying member states...
Feb 16, 2021
Wife of North Korea's Kim makes first public appearance in a year
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's wife, Ri Sol Ju, appeared in state media for the first time in more than a year on Wednesday, joining her husband at a concert on on...
Feb 16, 2021
Japan kicks off COVID-19 vaccination drive
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan launched its COVID-19 inoculation drive on Wednesday by administering Pfizer Inc's vaccine shots to Tokyo hospital workers, TV footage showed, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga ...
Feb 16, 2021
