Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iconic new tower opens as pandemic crushes Manhattan office market
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - One Vanderbilt, the latest super-tall skyscraper to grace New York's skyline, opens Monday in a socially distant ribbon-cutting ceremony as COVID-19 leaves offices...
Sep 14, 2020
Brexit risk premium returns to UK markets
By Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - The latest bout of sabre-rattling between Britain and the EU is upping the premium investors demand for holding UK assets for fear of a chaotic Brexit outcome wit...
Sep 14, 2020
Retirements, layoffs, labor force flight may leave scars on U.S economy
By Howard Schneider and Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she'd been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during...
Sep 14, 2020
Turkish Red Crescent worker killed in northern Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - An aid worker from Turkey's Red Crescent was killed and another was wounded after masked assailants attacked the group's vehicle near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, the aid age...
Sep 14, 2020
Salvagers mend ruptures in fire-hit oil tanker off Sri Lanka
By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has initiated repair work on the ruptured fuel oil tank in the engine room of a stricken fully loaded oil supertanker after plugging the leak, the countr...
Sep 14, 2020
U.S. to challenge World Court's jurisdiction in Iran sanctions case
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Lawyers for the United States are expected on Monday to reject the jurisdiction of the U.N.'s highest court to resolve a case brought by Iran seeking to...
Sep 14, 2020
Myanmar casualties may represent war crimes: U.N.'s Bachelet
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said on Monday that three years after a Rohingya exodus "no concrete measures" on accountability had been taken by authorities and said some cases of rec...
Sep 14, 2020
UK police charge man with explosive substance offences over suspicious package
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Monday they charged a man with attempting to cause an explosion after a suspicious package was sent to an address in London. Ovidijus Margelis, 26, who was ar...
Sep 14, 2020
Burned jaguars, fire tornadoes: Blazes in Brazil wetland deliver climate warning
By Jake Spring POCON, Brazil (Reuters) - A fire has been burning since mid-July in the remote wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving in its wake a vast charred desolation bigger than New York City. ...
Sep 14, 2020
South Korea charges former 'comfort women' activist with fraud, embezzlement
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the former leader of an advocacy group for victims of Japanese wartime sexual exploitation on charges of fr...
Sep 14, 2020
