Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Putin appeals to Russians' core values as vote on extending term looms
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin appealed to what he termed Russians' core values on Friday, the country's national day, as he sought to rally support for a vote on constitutional reforms t...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Severstal says 'no' to Europe as Thyssenkrupp's options narrow
By Anastasia Lyrchikova, Christoph Steitz and Tom Kckenhoff MOSCOW/FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Russian steelmaker Severstal has no plans to get involved in industry consolidation in Europe, its ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Take Five: Pump it up
(Reuters) - 1/ROBINHOOD AND THE MERRY TRADERS "Rise and rise again until lambs become lions," runs an oft-quoted line from the 2010 film 'Robin Hood'. The motto is being taken seriously by all those m...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Iran asks French experts to read black boxes of downed jet: official
(Reuters) - Iranian investigators have asked France's BEA air accident agency to read black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner, Iran's envoy to the United Nations aviation agency said. The Ukraine...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Ukraine president's wife tests positive for coronavirus
KIEV (Reuters) - Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus but her husband and their two children had tested negative. "Today I...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Rain stops play for COVID-hit Paris cafes
PARIS (Reuters) - Guillaume Artru, co-owner of a Paris restaurant, has seen his business battered first by COVID-19, then by one of Europe's strictest lockdown regimes, and now by a new adversary: the...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
'Shameful' to threaten Churchill statue, says UK PM Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was "absurd and shameful" that a statue of Winston Churchill was at risk of attack by protesters, his strongest statement yet ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Chinese users saw Zoom as a window through the 'Great Firewall'
By Huizhong Wu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a r...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Chinese capital reports new coronavirus cases for second day
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital reported two new coronavirus infections on Friday, a day after it declared its first case in nearly two months, prompting officials to delay plans for some students...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
Finland's parliament questions legality of EU recovery plan
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish parliament's constitutional committee on Friday queried the legal grounds for the European Union's proposed 750-billion-euro coronavirus recovery package, urging Finla...
Thomson Reuters Jun 12, 2020
