Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID deals blow to Saudi Arabia's G20 summit ambitions
By Marwa Rashad and Raya Jalabi RIYADH/BEIRUT (Reuters) - When Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and a leading U.S. ally, took over the G20 presidency in December 2019, hopes in the kingdom w...
Nov 20, 2020
K-Pop's BTS marks year of the pandemic with 'BE' album, and single 'Life Goes On'
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean megaband BTS released their latest album "BE" on Friday and will perform the new single "Life Goes On" remotely for the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunda...
Nov 20, 2020
Lawyer suspended over will at heart of Singapore first family feud
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The daughter-in-law of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew has been temporarily suspended from legal practice after she was found guilty of misconduct in preparing and execu...
Nov 20, 2020
Exclusive: EU could pay over $10 billion for Pfizer and CureVac vaccines - source
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union could pay more than $10 billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and ...
Nov 20, 2020
Trump to host Michigan lawmakers as he presses dubious effort to overturn election
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House, as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate ...
Nov 20, 2020
Taiwan to start building new submarine fleet next week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will start work next week to build the first of eight new domestically-developed submarines, it said on Friday, a long-mooted project to strengthen the island's defences in t...
Nov 19, 2020
Ethiopia's Tigray rebels fire rockets into Bahir Dar city, regional government says
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A rocket attack by Ethiopia's Tigray rebel forces on the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region caused no damage, the regional government said on Friday. "The illegal TPLF grou...
Nov 19, 2020
Trump, Xi to meet at virtual Asia Pacific forum as trade spat endures
By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend a virtual summit of Asia Pacific leaders on Friday to di...
Nov 19, 2020
Singapore activist faces fine over one-man smiley face sign protest
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is set to charge an activist with staging a one-man protest without a permit over an incident in which he held up a sign bearing a crudely drawn smiley face outside a p...
Nov 19, 2020
India's total coronavirus infections cross nine million
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India crossed the grim milestone of 9 million coronavirus cases, with 45,882 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday. India is only the s...
Nov 19, 2020
