Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Take Five: Bulls charge past hurdles
June 5 (Reuters) - 1/CROUCHING TIGER Have HSBC and Standard Chartered "chosen profits over human rights" in backing China's national security law for Hong Kong, as some suggest? Or does it reflect the...
Jun 05, 2020
Poland to open borders with the Baltic states next week: Lithuanian PM
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Poland and the Baltic States will open their borders to each other next week in an easing of travel restrictions put in place due to the pandemic, Lithuanian Prime Minister said on...
Jun 05, 2020
Exclusive: Angola cuts oil shipments to China as it seeks debt relief
By Julia Payne and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON (Reuters) - Angola has cut the number of oil cargoes that it will ship to Chinese state firms to pay down debt to Beijing as it seeks to renegotiate repayme...
Jun 05, 2020
Czech government orders out two Russian embassy staff
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government has declared two staff at the Russian embassy in Prague as persona non grata and ordered them to leave, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Friday. Babis said t...
Jun 05, 2020
Japan's Kirin orders probe of Myanmar beer joint ventures linked to military
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese beverage maker Kirin Holding Co on Friday said it had ordered an outside investigation of two Myanmar beer ventures it operates with a company linked to senior figures in th...
Jun 05, 2020
Town where Maddie McCann went missing hopes parents find closure
By Catarina Demony PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal (Reuters) - Foreign residents in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on Friday spoke of their hopes that the parents of British girl Madeleine McCann, who w...
Jun 05, 2020
Little progress on Brexit free trade deal, EU and UK say
By Gabriela Baczynska and Guy Faulconbridge BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union said on Friday there had been no significant progress in talks with the United Kingdom about a Brexit free tr...
Jun 05, 2020
Malaysia says tech firms, hit by pandemic and trade war, keen to move to country
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Friday it had a pipeline of investment projects worth about $13 billion and that many local and foreign electrical and electronics (E&E) firms were looking to...
Jun 05, 2020
Half-freed from lockdown, Spaniards rush to shops, card payments show
By Clara-Laeila Laudette MADRID (Reuters) - The easing of Spain's coronavirus lockdown led Spaniards to spend with gusto in May after halting buying for a month and a half, bank-card transaction data ...
Jun 05, 2020
Kremlin dismisses talk of ousting Nornickel President after fuel spill
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin dismissed on Friday the idea of ousting Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin after a Russian lawmaker said he should go following an Arctic fuel spill late last mon...
Jun 05, 2020
