BitGou: Reuters Morning Digest: December 2, 2015

2015年12月2日星期三

Reuters Morning Digest: December 2, 2015

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

NATO invites Montenegro to join alliance, defying Russia

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO foreign ministers invited tiny Montenegro on Wednesday to join their military alliance in its first expansion since 2009, defying Russian warnings that enlargement of the U.S.-led bloc further into the Balkans would be a provocation.

France's Sarkozy: no deal with Socialists against far right

PARIS (Reuters) - France's conservative party leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday ruled out making any alliance with Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists to stop the increasingly popular far right from winning regional councils in elections this month.

VW owners back job protection in crisis

BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen's controlling families have spoken out in favor of protecting jobs at the embattled carmaker as it struggles to find a way out of its emissions scandals.

Hacking of U.S. government was criminal, not state-sponsored: China

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday that an investigation into a massive U.S. computer breach last year that affected more than 22 million federal workers found the hacking attack was criminal, not state-sponsored.

U.S. bill ends legal quandary over mining rights in space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - - A new law clears U.S. companies to own what they mine from asteroids and other celestial bodies, ending a legal quandary that had overshadowed technical and financial issues facing the startups, industry officials said on Tuesday.

Adidas to put ice hockey equipment business up for sale: report

BERLIN (Reuters) - German sportswear company Adidas is preparing to sell its ice hockey equipment business as part of a broader drive to simplify its business, the New York Post reported.

Singer Morrissey's debut novel wins 'Bad Sex' prize

LONDON (Reuters) - British pop singer Morrissey's debut novel, "List of the Lost", won the award for the worst sex scene of the year on Tuesday for a passage in which two characters roll together into "one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation".