Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. weekly jobless claims push lower; many exhausting their benefits
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, but remained very high as the labor market recovery show...
Oct 22, 2020
Britain protects pork pies, whisky and lamb with new scheme after EU exit
LONDON (Reuters) - New rules to guarantee the authenticity and origin of traditional British foods, such as Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies after the end of the UK's Brexit transition peri...
Oct 22, 2020
Nvidia deal for Arm will drive computing power growth: SoftBank's Son
By Sam Nussey and Saeed Azhar TOKYO/DUBAI (Reuters) - SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia Corp will drive growth in computing power, in his first ...
Oct 22, 2020
Stretched Dutch hospitals to send COVID patients to Germany within days
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch hospital system is coming under increasing strain from coronavirus admissions as daily cases hit a record high, and it expects to begin transferring some patients to Ge...
Oct 22, 2020
Taiwan's UMC hopes to settle U.S. trade-secret lawsuit soon
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Thursday it hoped a business espionage lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against the...
Oct 22, 2020
Belgian foreign minister Wilmes in intensive care with COVID
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sophie Wilmes, Belgium's foreign minister and former premier, has been taken into intensive care suffering from COVID-19, her office said on Thursday, as the country battled a sec...
Oct 22, 2020
Spanish parliament overwhelmingly rejects far-right's no-confidence motion
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament on Thursday threw out, as expected, a motion of no confidence in Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez launched by the far-right Vox party and dismissed as a 'ci...
Oct 22, 2020
Union Pacific profit falls more than expected, shares down
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp on Thursday reported a bigger-than- expected drop in quarterly profit, after demand for e-commerce and beer shipments failed to offset weakness in coal and p...
Oct 22, 2020
Fourteen South Korean delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic...
Oct 22, 2020
Ahead of U.S. election, Europe eyes an ally in climate change fight
By Kate Abnett and Valerie Volcovici BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For countries hoping to avoid the worst of climate change, next month's U.S. presidential election will be pivotal in determining t...
Oct 22, 2020
