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EU opens monopoly abuse probe into Thomson Reuters

EU antitrust regulators said Tuesday that they are investigating whether Thomson Reuters Corp. is breaking monopoly abuse rules by preventing customers from applying their own codes to financial market datafeeds.

Thomson Reuters posts drop in 3Q earnings

News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter net income tumbled 60 percent from a year ago, as revenue in its legal and market divisions fell and it booked large one-time costs.

Thomson Reuters makes offer for Breakingviews.com

Financial information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. says it is offering to buy the business news and commentary site Breakingviews.com.

Thomson Reuters 2Q profit up, stabilization seen

Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter profit more than doubled from a year ago, helped by its 2008 acquisition of the Reuters news service.

Thomson Reuters 1Q earns up on Reuters acquisition

Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday its first-quarter profit climbed 18 percent, mainly from the company's acquisition of Reuters last year.

Thomson Reuters posts higher 4Q profit, sales

Thomson Reuters Corp. reported increased profit and sales Tuesday on last year's acquisition of the Reuters news service, topping Wall Street earnings estimates.

Thomson Reuters beats Wall Street with 3Q earnings

Thomson Reuters Corp. reported sharply lowered earnings in the third quarter Wednesday but said its operating profit grew 33 percent after excluding one-time events such as the integration of its Reuters acquisition.

Reuters newsroom in NYC reopens after powder scare

The Reuters newsroom in New York has reopened three hours after an editor opened an envelope containing white powder. Police say the substance will be tested.

Thomson Reuters 2Q profit slides 54 percent

Thomson Reuters said second-quarter earnings fell 54 percent as costs to buy and integrate Reuters cut into profit.

Thomson Reuters to cut 3 percent of jobs

Thomson Reuters Corp. will cut 1,500 jobs as the newly combined financial and professional information provider moves to consolidate operations and reduce costs, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.

Regulators Approve Thomson-Reuters Deal

Regulators signed off on a deal Tuesday that will create an enormous supplier of financial news and information, giving their blessing to a combination of Thomson Corp. and Reuters Group PLC as long as the companies help other parties compete in the arena of financial database services.

Thomson-Reuters Deal to Complete in Q2

Thomson Corp.'s proposed $17 billion acquisition of Reuters Group PLC should receive regulatory clearance early in the second quarter of 2008, both companies said in a statement on Monday.

Reuters and IHT Team Up on Business

Reuters Group PLC said Monday it has signed a deal with the International Herald Tribune to provide the Paris-based newspaper with content for its business section and will share the revenue from advertising.

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BBC News - Afghan corruption a political obstacle
Source: BBC News

The problem of corruption in Afghanistan was highlighted recently when an international survey placed the country as the second most corrupt in the world. It was beaten only by Somalia.

One year on, Obama cites struggle with Bush legacy
Source: Reuters

By Ross Colvin MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with -- from the economy to the war in Afghanistan -- are the...

ANALYSIS - Ethiopian opposition impotent as elections loom
Source: Reuters

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Ethiopia's opposition leaders were freed from jail in 2007, the three most prominent were hailed by fanatical supporters as leaders-in-waiting for sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous...

Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling
Source: Reuters

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday. The convict was arrested...

TIMELINE - Abdullah pulls out of Afghan election run-off
Source: Reuters

REUTERS - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah quit an election run-off on Sunday after accusing the government of not meeting his demands for a fair vote, but said he was not calling for a boycott. Here is a timeline of major...

Miley Cyrus voted worst celebrity influence of 2009
Source: Reuters

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Miley Cyrus, one of Disney's hottest stars of the past three years with hit records and hit films, has been voted the worst celebrity influence of 2009 by the very people who made her a star, tweens and...

Russia\'s Putin warns against intimidating Iran
Source: Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned major powers against intimidating Iran and said that talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic was \'\'premature\'\'. \'\'There is no need to frighten the Iranians,\'\'...

China weather ''magic'' conjures blue sky for parade
Source: Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force deployed a ''magic-like'' range of chemicals and technology to clear Beijing's smoggy air for a grand parade marking the 60th anniversary of Communist China, state media said on Thursday. Chemists and...

Defeated Japan LDP picks ex-finance minister as leader
Source: Reuters

By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defeated Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday picked a former finance minister as its new leader, handing him the challenge of rebuilding a battered party that had ruled for most of the past 54...

Iranian president raises stakes against Israel
Source: Reuters

By Parisa Hafezi and Firouz Sedarat TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions...

There he goes again...
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Jeffrey Heller of Reuters is at it again, adopting the biased, historically inaccurate, and racially-loaded lexicon of Arab invasion forces which ethnically cleansed thousands of Jews from Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967. Heller writes:

Seinfelds beat plagiarism, defamation claims in NY
Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit that accused Jerry Seinfeld of defamation and his wife Jessica Seinfeld of plagiarism in her top-selling cookbook was tossed out by a federal judge on Thursday. The suit, filed last year by cookbook author...

Belgium has significant hike in euthanasia after law
Source: Reuters

By Gene Emery BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors in Belgium have ended the lives of substantially more terminally ill people since a euthanasia law was passed in 2002, researchers said on Wednesday. However, while the increase might have been expected, the...

Hugo Chavez uses the "G"-word, Reuters reports with all sobriety
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Taken from an interview with French magazine La Figaro, Reuters quotes Hugo Chavez: "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly... What was it if not genocide?"

NY prosecutor targets bank over Iran links-report
Source: Reuters

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said he plans to act within a month against a large "mainstream" bank over illicit links with Iran, and signaled he is investigating Venezuelan banks over potential illegal ties to Iran, the Financial Time …

"Arab East Jerusalem"
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In previous posts, we have noted Reuters' repeated use of the racially loaded epithet "Arab East Jerusalem" to describe the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem.

Chronic fatigue linked with enterovirus infection
Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome appear to have a chronic enteroviral infection that can be detected by a stomach biopsy, according to a report in the current Online First issue of the Journal of Clinical...

Reuters revolves around Jewish "settlements"
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In a piece for the Reuters blog AxisMundi Jerusalem, Erika Solomon argues that controversy over Jewish settlements is at the core of current discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European leaders.

Reuters blames Israel for talks impasse
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As an illustration of the lengths to which Reuters will go to advocate for the Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East conflict, Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Keith Weir imply that Israel is to blame for the current suspension in negotiations with the Palestinians because the Netanyahu gove …

"We believe our post is accurate"
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That was the definitively equivocal reply of Reuters' AxisMundi Jerusalem editor and Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories, Alastair MacDonald, to a reader who had pointed out that Reuters' correspondent Erika Solomon did not have her facts straight when she cla …

Reuters continues to advocate for evicted Palestinian squatters
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Nearly a month ago, Palestinian Arab squatters were evicted from a home in Jerusalem pursuant to an order from the Israel High Court. The squatters had failed to pay rent for several years.

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