Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Saudi launches national artificial intelligence strategy
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday launched a National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will announce several AI partnerships, the head of the Saudi Data and Artificial ...
Oct 21, 2020
Ant Group to launch $35 billion IPO after final nod from China regulator
By Colin Qian, Julie Zhu and Meg Shen BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Ant Group has won the final nod from the country's top securities watchdog for the registration of its Shanghai offering, th...
Oct 21, 2020
PayPal to open up network to cryptocurrencies
By Anna Irrera and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc said on Wednesday it will allow customers to hold bitcoin and other virtual coins in its online wallet and shop using cryptocurrenc...
Oct 21, 2020
Verizon profit beats estimates on remote working boost
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc beat estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its phone and internet services as offices and schools continued to operate vir...
Oct 21, 2020
Congress presses DOJ to improve jail reporting system after Reuters report
By Peter Eisler and Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to strengthen its tracking of deaths in local jails following a Reuters invest...
Oct 21, 2020
Italy's most-wanted mafioso gets new life term for 1992 murder of prosecutors
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's most-wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been sentenced in absentia to a new life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni ...
Oct 21, 2020
Turkey mulling a return to coronavirus curbs as infections soar
By Orhan Coskun and Nevzat Devranoglu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is considering reimposing some measures to stem a resurgence of coronavirus cases such as stay-home orders for younger and older people ...
Oct 21, 2020
Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga to be sent to The Hague pending trial: court order
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A United Nations judge on Wednesday ordered that Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who has been in a French jail since May, be sent to a detention unit in The Hague out o...
Oct 21, 2020
Analysis: Biden risk looms for Turkey's Erdogan and beleaguered lira
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey stands to lose more than most other countries if Joe Biden is elected president since he is expected to toughen the U.S. stance against President Tayyip ...
Oct 21, 2020
Indian opposition, U.N. call for release of elderly priest held on terror charges
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition leaders on Wednesday called for the release of an elderly priest held on terror charges, one of 16 similar arrests rights groups say are politic...
Oct 21, 2020
