Comcast said it would stop buying Sky’s shares in the market after it secured 38 percent of the stock plus the 39 percent holding from Rupert Murdoch in the $40 billion takeover. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/NmqiZLp9Rlo/comcast-to-stop-buying-sky-shares-in-the-market-idUSKCN1M70JM
With the click of a button, Singapore’s security forces could soon use a digital version of the city-state to simulate a bomb threat at a sports stadium – and learn how to respond if there was a real attack. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/ppbHFnjp8YI/virtual-singapore-project-could-be-test-bed-for-planners-and-plotters-idUSKCN1M70U1
An attack on a military parade in Iran is a blow to the image of its Revolutionary Guards, but the elite force could yet turn the bloodshed to its advantage, using public sympathy to bolster itself at the expense of President Hassan Rouhani. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/g0iIv7Oh9Jc/irans-revolutionary-guards-may-turn-parade-attack-into-political-win-idUSKCN1M62CD
For Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, Southeast Asian domestic helpers in Hong Kong may prove key to their global ambitions in financial services. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/v3onCLOyu98/tencent-alibaba-chase-remittances-in-battle-for-southeast-asia-idUSKCN1M703R
China, Taiwan and New Zealand sat tight after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike, but Indonesia and the Philippines pulled the trigger on Thursday to prop up their battered currencies and temper risks to inflation and financial stability. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/HkPXwU36V4E/china-nz-shrug-off-fed-but-fx-risks-push-philippines-and-indonesia-into-hikes-idUSKCN1M706B
Europe’s share markets and the euro both took a tumble on Thursday as a report that Italy’s long-awaited budget was facing a delay compounded an already groggy global mood after the third U.S. interest rate rise of the year. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/eR0IJ2ceMf8/italy-budget-uncertainty-returns-to-haunt-europe-idUSKCN1M7041
Emergency management officials in Georgetown, South Carolina, were optimistic on Thursday that their port community would see less flooding than previously expected in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/xOj5ONL5rrk/south-carolina-city-hopeful-as-flooding-remains-a-threat-idUSKCN1M512G
Saudi Arabia will quietly add extra oil to the market over the next couple of months to offset a drop in Iranian production but is worried it might need to limit output next year to balance global supply and demand as the United States pumps more crude. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/amCRZAis08o/saudi-arabia-in-short-term-oil-fix-fears-extra-u-s-supply-next-year-idUSKCN1M70UW
The real identity of one of the men wanted by Britain for the Salisbury nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter is Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga, according to media reports on Wednesday which said he was a decorated Russian colonel. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/k-7I04bRfd8/salisbury-poisoning-suspect-named-as-a-russian-colonel-by-uk-media-idUSKCN1M62IS
China demanded the United States “dispel obstacles” to improving military ties and stop slandering it, amid growing tensions over trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea and U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims of China meddling in the upcoming U.S. election. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/ctPZ9ArJMjw/china-demands-u-s-dispel-obstacles-to-military-ties-and-stop-slander-idUSKCN1M70QA