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At least five people dead in Tanzania stampede as crowds view body of dead president
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five people from the same family have died in Tanzania in a stampede that occurred at a stadium in the port city of Dar es Salaam where hundreds of people were paying their last re...
Syndicated Content Mar 22, 2021
Lloyd's of London could ditch pinstripes after pandemic
LONDON (Reuters) - When the pandemic is over, the brokers of Lloyd's of London could haggle with underwriters from home in their underpants, and ditch their pinstripes at the office. A trade body repr...
Syndicated Content Mar 25, 2021
Brazil creates over 400,000 formal jobs in Feb, highest on record
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economy added a net 401,639 formal jobs in February, Economy Ministry figures showed on Tuesday, the highest monthly figure since the data series began ...
Syndicated Content Mar 30, 2021
China Evergrande to raise $2 billion in pre-IPO for property, car marketplace unit
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group on Monday said it will sell 10% of its online real estate and automobile marketplace, Fangchebao (FCB), to 17 investors for HK$16.35 billion ($2.10 billion...
Syndicated Content Mar 29, 2021
Charpentier and Doudna win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wedn...
Syndicated Content Oct 07, 2020
UK to focus crypto rules on stablecoins, says minister
By Huw Jones and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will initially focus on regulating stablecoins rather than the broader cryptocurrency market given the risk of too little competition, UK financi...
Syndicated Content Mar 30, 2021
Facebook, Google plan new undersea cables to connect Southeast Asia and America
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook said on Monday it planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a project with Google and regional telecommunication companies to ...
Syndicated Content Mar 29, 2021
Fintech startup Affirm aims for over $9 billion valuation in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) -Affirm Holdings Inc, founded by PayPal Holdings Inc co-founder Max Levchin, is aiming for a valuation of over $9 billion in its initial public offering, the lending startup said in a filing...
Syndicated Content Jan 05, 2021
Samsung Elec second-quarter operating profit up 23% on strong chip sales
By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects a gradual recovery in demand for mobile devices and consumer electronics in the second half of t...
Syndicated Content Jul 30, 2020
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to agree Nile dam deal in weeks
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will agree a deal to fill the giant Blue Nile dam in two to three weeks, following mediation by the African Union to broker a deal to end a decade-lon...
Syndicated Content Jun 27, 2020
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