September 6, 2021 By Christina Amann and Victoria Waldersee MUNICH (Reuters) – BMW is confident that sales in China will grow next year, finance chief Nicolas Peter told Reuters on Monday, attributing high demand for premium cars to travel restrictions which meant consumers had more money to spend. Car sales in China have fallen in […]
European stocks end near record highs as tech rallies
September 6, 2021 By Sruthi Shankar and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) – European shares climbed on Monday to end near record levels, led by technology stocks which surged to their highest this year as a surprise rise in German factory orders pointed to improving global demand and boosted sentiment. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.7% […]
Poland condemns jailing of Belarus protest leaders
September 6, 2021 WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz on Monday condemned the sentencing of Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak. Kolesnikova and Znak were sentenced to 11 years and 10 years in prison, respectively, leading to an outcry from Western countries. “The decision of the Belarusian authorities … deserves […]
Migrant families wary as El Salvador becomes first to adopt bitcoin
September 6, 2021 By Nelson Renteria COLON, El Salvador (Reuters) – Each month, Salvadoran tailor Julio Ramirez receives a small wire transfer from his two daughters in the United States, who have to pay a few dollars in commission fees for the transaction. As of this week, El Salvador’s government says its historic adoption of […]
Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks
The manufacturing industry took a hard hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are signs of how it is slowly starting to come back into shape — helped in part by new efforts to make factories more responsive to the fluctuations in demand that come with the ups and downs of grappling with the shifting […]
Golf-Europe chase their second Solheim Cup win on American soil
September 6, 2021 (Reuters) – Anna Nordqvist and Lexi Thompson teed off in the first singles pairing on the final day of the 17th Solheim Cup at the Inverness Club in Ohio on Monday, with Europe leading 9-7 and needing five more points to retain the trophy. The Americans narrowed the gap over Team Europe […]
West cries foul as Belarus protest leader Kolesnikova sentenced to 11 years
September 6, 2021 KYIV (Reuters) – Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of mass street protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko last year, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday, leading to an outcry from Western countries. Kolesnikova, 39, had been detained after ripping up her passport to prevent Belarusian security forces from […]
Soccer-Argentina’s Martinez still nonplussed over abandoned World Cup qualifier
September 6, 2021 By Ramiro Scandolo BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – One of the players at the centre of Sunday’s cancelled Brazil-Argentina World Cup qualifier has recalled the farcical scenes in Sao Paulo and what he said was despair at the thought of being obliged to stay in Brazil for 14 days of quarantine. Aston Villa […]
Guinea coup leader restricts travel for government officials
September 6, 2021 By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea coup leader Mamady Doumbouya on Monday banned government officials from leaving the country, a day after special forces soldiers deposed long-serving President Alpha Conde, drawing international condemnation. The takeover is the fourth since April in West and Central Africa, raising concerns over a slide back […]
‘Unattainable power’: the frustrations that drove Guinea’s coup leader
September 6, 2021 By David Lewis, Edward McAllister and Saliou Samb DAKAR (Reuters) – In 2016, Mamady Doumbouya, a commander in the Guinean army, asked his superiors if he could have ammunition to train his troops in marksmanship. He never received it, he said, because they feared he would use the rounds to launch a […]
Vietnam’s capital ramps up testing after extending COVID-19 curbs
September 6, 2021 HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, extended COVID-19 restrictions on Monday for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to conduct tests on the city’s 8 million people to try to curb a climb in infections that started in late April. The Southeast Asian country dealt successfully with the virus […]
Blinken arrives in Qatar as four Americans leave Afghanistan
September 6, 2021 DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived on Monday in Qatar where he will seek support to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans left behind in Afghanistan. A senior State Department official told reporters on Blinken’s flight that Washington has facilitated the safe departure of four more Americans overland from […]
Top U.S. diplomat slams ‘shameful sentencing’ of Belarus opposition figures
September 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday condemned the “politically motivated conviction and shameful sentencing” of Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak. “These sentencings are further evidence of the regime’s total disregard for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Belarus,” Blinken said […]
EU warns Polish regions they could lose funding over ‘LGBT-free’ zones
September 6, 2021 WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Commission has written to five Polish regional councils urging them to abandon declarations that they are “LGBT-free” in order to receive funding, one of the councils affected confirmed on Monday. The European Union executive is at loggerheads with Poland and Hungary over issues ranging from LGBT rights […]
Newly discovered Napoleon hat with DNA previews in Hong Kong
September 6, 2021 By Aleksander Solum HONG KONG (Reuters) – A newly discovered hat with DNA evidence proving it belonged to the legendary European statesman and general Napoleon Bonaparte was previewed by auction house Bonhams in Hong Kong on Monday. Described by Bonhams as the “first hat to bear the Emperor’s DNA”, it is on […]
The Station: Lyft, Uber take action in Texas, Van Moof charges up with capital, an eVTOL SPAC deal gets knocked
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Before […]
Veolia, Suez to seek EU antitrust okay for tie-up this month – source
September 6, 2021 By Foo Yun Chee and Gwénaëlle Barzic BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – French waste and water management companies Veolia and Suez will seek EU antitrust approval this month for their tie-up to create a national champion better able to compete with Chinese rivals, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. Another source […]
Nord Stream 2: Russia’s push to boost gas supplies to Germany
September 6, 2021 (Reuters) – The operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline announced on Monday that the final piece of pipe had been attached, leaving only the linking of its two long stretches to complete the project. Gas supplier Gazprom will double its export capacity via the Baltic Sea when operations begin, which […]
In Buenos Aires downtown, a city seeks new lease of life after pandemic ‘iceberg’
September 6, 2021 By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In downtown Buenos Aires, the scars of the pandemic are clear for all to see. In store windows, signs read “We’re leaving,” “Final settlement,” and “Closing down” – a reminder of the painful economic impact of COVID-19. As with city centers elsewhere, Argentina’s picturesque and […]
UK PM’s planned tax hike for social care triggers fury within ruling party
September 6, 2021 By Andy Bruce and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to hike taxes to fund social care has provoked fury among many of his own lawmakers, who fear that such a clear violation of his election promises shows he is happy to oversee a sweeping expansion of […]
