Month: September 2019

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, Britain, September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reveal his final Brexit plan to European Union leaders as early as Tuesday, the Telegraph reported bit.ly/2o0UEtW on Monday. The plan is expected to be based
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FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, Britain, September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is asking the European Union to rule out further delay of Brexit, the Times newspaper reported. Senior British judges are planning for an emergency legal challenge if
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(Reuters) – WeWork’s parent The We Company said on Monday it will file to withdraw its initial public offering, a week after the SoftBank-backed office-sharing startup ousted founder Adam Neumann as its chief executive officer. FILE PHOTO: A man enters a WeWork co-working space in New York City, New York U.S., January 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan
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KABUL (Reuters) – The front-runners for Afghanistan’s presidency, incumbent Ashraf Ghani and chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, have both declared victory, echoing an election crisis five years ago when competing claims by the two men led to months of turmoil. FILE PHOTO: Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani speaks after casting his vote in the presidential election
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LIWONDE, Malawi (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry appealed on Monday in a national park in Malawi for increased global efforts to protect the environment against “greed, apathy and selfishness”. Harry, whose tour of southern Africa has taken him to four countries, observed a simulated anti-poaching operation by Malawian rangers and British soldiers aimed at protecting
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FILE PHOTO – A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration jointly issued warning letters to four online networks for illegally marketing unapproved versions of opioid medicines, the
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DOHA (Reuters) – The embarrassingly low attendance at the world athletics championships was blamed on late start times and a blockade of the country by other nations in the region by the event’s organizers on Monday. Athletics – World Athletics Championships – Doha 2019 – Women’s 200 Metres Heats – Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – As Britain’s governing Conservatives hold their annual conference in Manchester there is one riddle which has echoed around the bars and restaurants – how will Prime Minister Boris Johnson fulfil his pledge to deliver Brexit on Oct. 31? FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a roundtable at Downing Street
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FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk attends a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, April 14, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired national security council secretary Oleksandr Danyliuk, according to a decree published on the president’s official website. Danyliuk offered to quit before Zelenskiy began a visit to the United
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FILE PHOTO: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro listens to a news conference about a presidential executive order relating to military veterans outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, U.S. March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday dismissed reports that the Trump
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks during a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, U.S., May 22, 2019. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s ousted national security adviser John Bolton, a harsh critic of North Korea, said the country will not give up
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (R-CA) talks to reporters after testimony from Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire about the handling of the whistleblower complaint on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his attacks against
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LIWONDE, Malawi (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry will join an anti-poaching patrol with local park rangers in Malawi on Monday to highlight conservation work, another leg of his family’s southern African trip. Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex speaks during reception at the British High Commissioner’s Residence in Lilongwe, Malawi, September 29, 2019. Dominic Lipinski/Pool
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen outside the venue for the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, Britain, September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Allegations that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson groped two women 20 years ago overshadowed the Conservative Party’s conference on Monday. A Johnson spokesman denied the claim. Charlotte
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) plunged 16% year-on-year to $729 billion in the third quarter, according to Refinitiv data, the lowest quarterly volume since 2016, as growing economic uncertainty curbed the risk appetite of companies considering deals. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation
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BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world’s most valuable unicorns, booked revenue of 50-60 billion yuan ($7 billion to $8.4 billion) in a better-than-expected result for the first half, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People are seen at the Bytedance Technology booth
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FILE PHOTO: An Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) helicopter dumps water on a burning forest near Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said it expects forest fires that have been raging through parts of Sumatra island and in Kalimantan on the
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his request that a foreign power investigate a domestic political rival is set to intensify this week with testimony due from witnesses concerning allegations made by a whistleblower within the U.S. intelligence community. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump spaeks to
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FILE PHOTO: The GM logo is seen at the General Motors plant in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, January 22, 2019. REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio (Reuters) – General Motors Co and United Auto Workers (UAW) said they will continue talks on a new labor deal on Monday, as a strike by the union’s members enters its third
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