Author Archives: Syndicated Content
WikiLeaks' Assange was careful to protect informants, court hears
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was careful to ensure that the names of informants in hundreds of thousands of leaked secret U.S. government documents were never published, his Lo...
Sep 16, 2020
Arm China investor sues company, escalating CEO spat amid sale
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese division of UK-based chip designer Arm Ltd has been sued by an investor over its board's attempt to oust the unit's chief executive, escalating an inte...
Sep 16, 2020
Hong Kong formally objects to U.S. demand for 'Made in China' export label
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has filed a formal objection with the United States over its demand for "Made in China" labels on goods exported from the Chinese semi-autonomous city, the commerce sec...
Sep 16, 2020
'Don't do it': studies flash sub-zero rate warnings to central banks
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) - Six years after the ECB cut interest rates below 0%, behavioural finance gurus have a message for other central banks thinking about taking the plunge: don't. Ra...
Sep 16, 2020
Ex-head of world athletics Diack found guilty of corruption
PARIS (Reuters) - The former head of world athletics' governing body, Lamine Diack, was convicted in France on Wednesday of corruption in a Russian doping scandal. Diack, 87, was found guilty of accep...
Sep 16, 2020
France regrets that Lebanese government not yet formed but says there is still time
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday it regretted the fact that Lebanese politicians had failed to form a government two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron set a Sept. 15 deadline, but...
Sep 16, 2020
New Japan PM Suga: will support people who have suffered economic damage
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Wednesday that he will do his best to protect employment while also countering the coronavirus. In his first news conference as p...
Sep 16, 2020
Mass murderer Breivik to apply for parole: report
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will seek to apply for parole, his lawyer told daily VG on Wednesday. The far-right extremist killed eight people with a bomb in Oslo an...
Sep 16, 2020
Russian ship sails for Nord Stream 2 supply base in Germany
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia looked set to press on with the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project despite mounting Western opposition after da...
Sep 16, 2020
Frenchman Tsonga ruled out for rest of 2020 due to back injury
(Reuters) - A lingering lower back problem has forced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga out of his home Grand Slam at the French Open and the rest of 2020, the former world number five said on Wednesday. The 35-year...
Sep 16, 2020
