Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Germany opens part of bailout fund to Lufthansa now - Der Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is making part of its 9 billion euro ($10.10 billion) bailout fund available to Lufthansa immediately after shareholders backed the rescue plan on Thursday, De...
Jun 26, 2020
South Korea panel recommends prosecutors should not indict Samsung group heir
SEOUL (Reuters) - An outside panel in South Korea recommended that prosecutors should not indict Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee over a 2015 merger and alleged accounting fraud, the Supreme Prosecutors'...
Jun 26, 2020
Teenager who threw French boy from London art gallery roof jailed for 15 years
LONDON (Reuters) - A British teenager who threw a six-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in London with the intention of killing him was jailed for a...
Jun 26, 2020
BMW works council backs electric-only platform-report
BERLIN (Reuters) - BMW should shift course and establish a technology platform just for electric cars, moving away from developing cars that can be fitted with either electric or combustion engines, t...
Jun 26, 2020
Pandemic aid watchdog steps into partisan war over bailouts
By Lawrence Delevingne, Chris Prentice and Koh Gui Qing (Reuters) - Brian Miller would have one of the toughest jobs in Washington even without the cutthroat politics all around him. As America's insp...
Jun 26, 2020
U.S. lenders, businesses brace for disclosure on small business pandemic aid
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will soon get a first full look at which businesses received $515 billion of taxpayer funds when the government, after initial resistance by Presiden...
Jun 26, 2020
Clock ticks on push to resolve Egypt-Ethiopia row over giant Nile dam
By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is counting on international pressure to unlock a deal it sees as crucial to protecting its scarce water supplies from the Nile river before the expected start-u...
Jun 26, 2020
Amid pandemic, SE Asian nations warn of 'alarming' South China Sea incidents
By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam and the Philippines warned of growing insecurity in Southeast Asia at a regional summit on Friday amid concerns that China was stepping up its activity in th...
Jun 26, 2020
Norwegian found guilty of spying for Iran in Denmark
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish court on Friday found a Norwegian citizen guilty of spying for an Iranian intelligence service and of complicity in a suspected plot to kill an Iranian Arab opposition ...
Jun 26, 2020
Most EU countries not doing enough to tackle air pollution, Commission says
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Most European Union countries are at risk of missing their targets for reducing health-damaging air pollution for both 2020 and 2030, the European Commission said o...
Jun 26, 2020
