Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Water is disappearing from Mexico's vital desert oasis Cuatro Cienegas
By Daniel Becerril CUATRO CIENEGAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Alfalfa plants sway under a thin veil of mist as towering irrigation equipment rolls above the crops, spraying the vast fields with water. It's a...
Mar 21, 2024
'Volga Maniac' gets life sentence for killing 31 Russian women
(Reuters) - A Russian serial killer known as the "Volga Maniac" was jailed for life on Thursday for murdering 31 elderly women, the TASS state news agency reported. Radik Tagirov was arrested in 2020 ...
Mar 21, 2024
UBS Global Research pushes back Fed rate cut expectation to June
(Reuters) - UBS Global Research now expects the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates from June, a month later that its previous prediction and in line with other brokerages' forecasts, it s...
Mar 21, 2024
Merck combination treatment for lung cancer fails late-stage study
(Reuters) - Merck said on Thursday a combination of two of its cancer drugs failed to meet the main goals of a late-stage study evaluating it as an initial treatment for a type of lung cancer. The tre...
Mar 21, 2024
Becton Dickinson ramps up U.S. syringe production amid China quality concerns
(Reuters) -U.S-based medical equipment maker Becton Dickinson said on Thursday it has increased domestic production of medical syringes after the U.S. drug regulator recommended not using some China-m...
Mar 21, 2024
Mirador Therapeutics raises over $400 million in early funding rounds
By Sneha S K (Reuters) - Mirador Therapeutics said on Thursday it had secured more than $400 million to develop precision medicines for immune-related diseases, in a rare, large early-stage fundraise....
Mar 21, 2024
Apple's CEO Cook opens new store in Shanghai
(Refiles to change story identifier, no changes in text) SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Apple CEO Tim Cook opened Apple's new store in Shanghai drawing a large crowd on Thursday, with some people queuing overnig...
Mar 21, 2024
FactSet beats Q2 profit estimates amid surge in financial services subscriptions
(Reuters) - FactSet Research Systems on Thursday beat second-quarter profit estimates on the back of robust demand for its financial data and analytics services driving the subscription growth. Increa...
Mar 21, 2024
Britain seeks views on 2027 carbon border tax
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has launched a consultation on how it should apply a new carbon import levy on some products from 2027 to help to protect businesses against cheaper impor...
Mar 21, 2024
Russian court rejects Navalny mother's case alleging improper medical care, ally says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court in the city of Labytnangi has rejected a lawsuit by Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, over improper medical care, Navalny's...
Mar 21, 2024
