Oct 18 (Reuters) – IT consulting firm Accenture is looking to sell its Chinese operations for up to $1.5 billion, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. • Accenture has hired JPMorgan to…
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Pope Leo pledged on Sunday to slowly resume his usual activities as the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics as he greeted crowds in St. Peter’s Square during his first public event since undergoing surgery…
By Yasmeen Abutaleb Oct 18 (Reuters) – North Carolina hasn’t elected a Democrat to the US Senate in nearly 20 years, but former Governor Roy Cooper has built a double-digit lead over Republican Michael Whatley by relentlessly focusing on affordability and a blunt promise to…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – Microsoft has pulled out of a data center deal with British cloud provider Nscale, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday. The US tech giant, one of Nscale’s two largest customers, recently terminated its agreement for the Loughton, Essex, data center, according…
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) – France woke on Sunday to the wreckage of one of its most violent days of unrest in years after protests over high prices and public services left one demonstrator dead, hundreds of police injured and…
TOKYO, Oct 18 (Reuters) – The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration fell below 50% to its lowest level since she took office in October last year, Kyodo News Agency reported on Sunday. In a poll conducted between October 17 and 18,…
DUBAI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s parliament approved Mehrdad Akhlaqi Ketabchi as defence minister on Sunday, ending months of interim leadership at the ministry and placing a former defence sector veteran in charge of the country’s defence production and procurement apparatus. Akhlaqi replaces Majid Ebn…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to an eighth province, North Ubangi, bordering Central African Republic, Congo’s public health institute confirmed on Sunday. Reuters reported on Thursday that two cases were confirmed in North Ubangi, citing two…
WARSAW, Oct 18 (Reuters) – The Polish Air Force was conducting preventive operations related to Russian missile attacks on Ukraine on Sunday, the Polish Armed Forces said on X. “These actions are preventive in nature and are aimed at securing and protecting Polish airspace, particularly…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – Russia has attacked Ukraine’s energy, oil and gas sectors dozens of times in the week since US President Donald Trump announced a halt to attacks on energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “Since the American President announced the energy…
