Author Archives: Syndicated Content
EU to start opening external borders from July: commissioner
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will only fully open internal borders by the end of June and begin lifting restrictions on travel to and from other countries in July, EU Home Affairs Commissio...
Thomson Reuters Jun 05, 2020
Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, allows car dealers, law firms to re-open
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo, the country's largest city and the first to report a coronavirus case, has authorized car dealers, law firms and accounting companies to resume activities as ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 05, 2020
In Iraq's fields of black gold, thousands lose livelihoods
By Mohammed Aty BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Mohammed Haider, a security worker in Iraq's southern oilfields, thought he was safe after signing a new one-year contract to guard oil facilities. Three days l...
Thomson Reuters Jun 05, 2020
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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters Jun 05, 2020
