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Singapore to trial business traveller pass as virus curbs ease
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will pilot a new travel pass for senior executives in the city-state who need to travel regularly for business, authorities said Wednesday, as they further eased some c...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Russian navy vessel, container ship collide in Danish waters
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Russian navy vessel collided with a Swiss-owned container ship in Danish waters on Wednesday near the Oresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden, Danish defence authorities tol...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
General Mills beats quarterly sales estimates
(Reuters) - General Mills Inc beat quarterly sales estimates on Wednesday, as people stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic stocked up on its baking products and cereals. Net earnings attributable...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Back from adversity, rejuvenated Azarenka is on a roll
By Martyn Herman (Reuters) - Few players have been thrown as many curve balls in their career as former world number one Victoria Azarenka but the Belarussian fighter is back and hunting Grand Slam ti...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Exclusive: Hyundai in talks with EU on concessions over Daewoo deal - sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World No. 1 shipbuilding group Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co Ltd are in talks with EU antitrust regulators on concessions to allay competition concerns about its $1.8 billi...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Violence mounts against Iraqi doctors as COVID cases spike
By Amina Ismail NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi doctor Tariq Al-Sheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID-19, beat him un...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
KKR to buy online contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts
(Reuters) - KKR & Co Inc has agreed to acquire 1-800 Contacts from investment firm AEA Investors LP, the online contact lens retailer announced on Wednesday, in a deal that a source said was worth mor...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Pandemic slashes worldwide income from work by a tenth: ILO
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Income earned from work worldwide dropped by an estimated 10.7%, or $3.5 trillion, in the first nine months of 2020, compared to the same period a year ago, the...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
Explainer: What happens next with UK plan to breach Brexit divorce treaty?
By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is winning his parliamentary battle to pass laws that could allow him to tear up parts of Britain's EU exit treaty, despite a warning f...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
German cabinet approves second-highest net new debt in 2021 budget
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday approved Finance Minister Olaf Scholz's draft budget for next year which envisages net new debt of 96.2 billion euros ($112.6 bil...
Thomson Reuters Sep 23, 2020
