Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain's Acciona hires banks for IPO of $9.6 billion energy unit - sources
By Abhinav Ramnarayan, Arno Schuetze and Isla Binnie MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish conglomerate Acciona is stepping up preparations for a stock market listing of its renewable energy unit and has hired b...
Apr 14, 2021
Turkey's Erdogan slams Italy's Draghi over 'dictator' comment
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan accused Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Wednesday of behaving with "impertinence and disrespect" after he called the Turkish leader a "dictator". Las...
Apr 14, 2021
Angry Indian traders counter Amazon summit with own event
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of Indian small businesses will organise an event this week in protest at the business practices of foreign e-tailers like Amazon.com Inc, taking a dig ...
Apr 14, 2021
Top U.S. House Republican on tax policy to retire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Kevin Brady, one of the Republican Party's leading voices on tax policy in Congress, announced on Wednesday that he will retire from the House of Representat...
Apr 14, 2021
Exclusive: Olympics-COVID cuts hit anti-doping program at Tokyo Games
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - Anti-Doping accreditations for the Tokyo Olympics have been cut due to COVID-19 but the core management team in charge of delivering a drug-free Games will remain intact, ...
Apr 14, 2021
U.S. FTC commissioners to testify on anti-fraud efforts during pandemic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission will testify to Congress next week to discuss the agency's anti-fraud efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly its abilit...
Apr 14, 2021
Empty middle airplane seat could cut coronavirus exposure by up to 57%: CDC
(Reuters) - A vacant middle airplane seat could cut the risk of exposure to coronavirus by 23% to 57% compared with a full flight, according to a study on physical distancing onboard released on Wedne...
Apr 14, 2021
Turkey logs highest daily COVID-19 infections, deaths since pandemic started: data
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 62,797 new coronavirus cases and 279 deaths in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Wednesday, registering the highest daily death toll and rise in case...
Apr 14, 2021
Exclusive: India, Pakistan held secret talks to try to break Kashmir impasse
By Sanjeev Miglani and Asif Shahzad NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Top intelligence officers from India and Pakistan held secret talks in Dubai in January in a new effort to calm military tension over the disp...
Apr 14, 2021
U.S. hearing on China competition told research funding falling behind
By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investment in research and development has reached its lowest level decades while that in the rest of the world has soared, the head...
Apr 14, 2021
