Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Rolling in toilet paper: Australian family over-orders coveted commodity
(Reuters) - An Australian family is rolling in a much-coveted commodity after mistakenly ordering 48 boxes instead of 48 rolls of toilet paper online. That works out at 2,304 toilet paper rolls for Ha...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Attacker blows self up near U.S. embassy in Tunis: local radio
TUNIS (Reuters) - A militant blew himself up near the U.S. embassy in Tunis on Friday, Tunisian Radio Mosaique reported without giving further details. (Reporting By Tarek Amara, writing by Angus McDo...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Huawei confident it will supply core networks technology to European operators
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is confident some European telecoms will choose it to provide 5G technology for their core networks, the firm's chief representative to th...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Malaysia's health ministry confirms 28 new coronavirus infections
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry said on Friday 28 new coronavirus infections were reported, bringing the total confirmed cases to 83 in the country. Of those, 23 people had fully r...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Indonesia confirms two more coronavirus cases, total four
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed on Friday that two more people had tested positive for the coronavirus, taking the total of confirmed cases to four. The two Indonesians were in their 30s and h...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Three AngloGold Ashanti miners dead after rockfall at Mponeng mine
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AngloGold Ashanti on Friday found the bodies of three miners after a 2 magnitude earthquake caused an underground rockfall at its Mponeng gold mine 76 km (47 miles) from Johan...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
China metal inventories scale new highs as demand makes slow recovery from virus
By Min Zhang and Tom Daly BEIJING (Reuters) - Inventories of metal in China piled up this week, data from consultancies and the Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) showed, underscoring persistent sluggis...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Japan's Aso urges financial institutions to ensure smooth financing amid virus fears
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso on Friday urged public and private financial institutions to step up efforts to ensure smooth corporate financing in the run-up to the fiscal year-...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
Sixteen people running to become leader of Merkel's party: report
BERLIN (Reuters) - There are 16 people running to replace Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), the Funke newspaper group on Friday cited source...
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
First coronavirus death in the Netherlands - health authorities
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An 86-year-year old man infected with the coronavirus died in the Netherlands on Friday, the country's first known fatality from the epidemic, the National Health Institute said....
Thomson Reuters Mar 6, 2020
