Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: Zambia 'doing everything possible' to avoid default - FinMin
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zambia is doing everything possible to avoid a sovereign debt default later this week, including sharing information on its Chinese debt with creditors, its finance minister t...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Golf: Johnson dangerous after shaking off the rust
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Dustin Johnson is a dangerous threat heading into this week's Masters after the world number one showed impressive form since coming back from COVID-19. The American came on s...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
UK PM Johnson's treaty-breaking Brexit laws face defeat in parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to suffer a heavy defeat in parliament's upper chamber on Monday over laws allowing him to breach Britain's EU exit treaty - a proposal whic...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Bolivia's Evo Morales heads home after socialist president sworn in
By Daniel Ramos and Miguel Lobianco LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's former longtime leader Evo Morales was preparing a return to his country on Monday after a close ally and member of his MAS socialist p...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Sean Connery's 007 pistol from 'Dr.No' stars at Hollywood auction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The handgun used by the late Sean Connery in the first James Bond film is the star attraction in a Hollywood auction next month. The semi automatic Walther PP gun, which along ...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Novavax's experimental coronavirus vaccine gets FDA's 'fast-track' status
(Reuters) - Novavax Inc said on Monday its experimental coronavirus vaccine had gained the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "fast-track" status. The U.S. drug developer, which is testing the drug i...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
China says inclusion of Taiwan in WHO meeting would be 'illegal'
GENEVA (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Chen Xu told a World Health Organization (WHO) ministerial meeting on Monday that a proposal to include Taiwan as an observer was "illegal a...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
EU wants new start in trade policy with the U.S.: Altmaier
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union and its member states want to reset trade relations with the next U.S. administration following Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the election in the United States,...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Guatemala Mayan villagers tell of harrowing escape from deadly landslide
By Sofia Menchu CHICUZ, Guatemala (Reuters) - Matilde Ical Chen was toasting tortillas over a wood fire for the midday meal when the landslide ripped through the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous village of...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
Final results confirm Ivory Coast President Ouattara's re-election
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The final results of Ivory Coast's Oct. 31 presidential election confirm President Alassane Ouattara won a third term in office with 94.27% of the vote, the constitutional council ...
Thomson Reuters Nov 09, 2020
