Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iran's judiciary sentences couple to death over money laundering and gold hoard
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian couple has been sentenced to death for having smuggled hard currency and laundering $200 million of money, as well as having been found with a stash of gold at their home,...
May 19, 2020
Investor TCI files criminal complaint against Wirecard managers
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The investor TCI Fund Management said on Tuesday that it has filed a criminal complaint against Wirecard managers with public prosecutors in Munich. A recent independent audit by...
May 19, 2020
China starts probe of BoC's oil-linked product losses: central bank publication
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's banking and insurance regulator has started an investigation into Bank of China's (BoC) recent loss on a crude oil-linked product, the central bank publication Financial Ne...
May 19, 2020
Air freight costs start to stabilize as countries reopen, says DHL executive
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Air freight costs started stabilizing in late April after a surge due to the COVID-19 outbreak that grounded most passenger flights and forced freight forwarders to resort to cha...
May 19, 2020
China's Wuhan conducts 467,847 COVID-19 tests, says health authority
BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 467,847 nucleic acid tests on May 18, the local health authority said on Tuesday, up f...
May 19, 2020
British backing gives some RBS investors comfort in crisis
By Sinead Cruise and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - Best known as Britain's biggest financial crisis failure, some investors and analysts view majority state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland as the lende...
May 19, 2020
Some signs children may not transmit COVID-19, two UK epidemiologists say
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tuesday, though they cautioned t...
May 19, 2020
Zimbabweans in South Africa use app to send food home after border restrictions
By Emma Rumney and MacDonald Dzirutwe JOHANNESBURG/HARARE (Reuters) - Petronella Mabhena, a domestic worker in South Africa, has been paying bus drivers to ferry food to her relatives in Zimbabwe for ...
May 19, 2020
As coronavirus crushes small restaurants, big chains see room to move in
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prime storefronts left empty by failed businesses. Cheaper or even flexible rents. Landlords willing to add drive-thru lanes. As the coronavirus permanently shutter...
May 19, 2020
Syrian government seizes assets of Assad cousin Makhlouf: document
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government decided on Tuesday to seize assets belonging to Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad and one of Syria's richest men, and his wife and children,...
May 19, 2020
