Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Valneva now expects recommendation on COVID-19 vaccine by April
PARIS (Reuters) - Valneva now expects a positive recommendation from the European Medecines Agency (EMA) in April for its VLA2001 COVID-19 candidate vaccine, the French vaccine maker said on Friday, c...
Mar 11, 2022
Hong Kong refugees struggle to find food on empty supermarket shelves
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Panic buying in Hong Kong on fears of a new COVID-19 lockdown has hit the city's refugees particularly hard because they can only spend their food allowance in sup...
Mar 11, 2022
Japan’s Fujifilm says to terminate enrollment in Avigan trial for COVID-19
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Friday it was halting enrolment in a Phase III trial of its antiviral pill Avigan for the treatment of COVID-19. The emergence of Omicron made ...
Mar 11, 2022
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine to skip Malaysia’s arms fair
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian weapons makers will not take part in Malaysia's biennial arms show Defence Services Asia (DSA) this month amid the war in ...
Mar 11, 2022
California startup Astrolab unveils space rover, more than a mere ‘moon buggy’
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-area startup founded by a veteran spaceflight robotics engineer unveiled on Thursday its full-scale, working prototype for a next-generation lunar...
Mar 11, 2022
Hungary PM Orban says EU will not sanction Russian gas or oil
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union will not impose sanctions on Russian gas or oil, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video posted on his Facebook page on Friday, amid a summit of E...
Mar 11, 2022
Credit Suisse aims to nearly halve emissions financing to fossil fuels by 2030
(This March 10 story corrects unit in paragraph 3 to 21.9 million tonnes (not 21.9 tonnes)) By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse set new targets on Thursday to nearly halve its e...
Mar 11, 2022
Russia says military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk taken out – agencies
(Reuters) - Russian troops have launched a high-precision, long-range attack on two military airfields in the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk and taken them out of action, Russian news a...
Mar 11, 2022
About 222,000 evacuated to Russia from Ukraine -TASS
LONDON (Reuters) - About 222,000 people have been evacuated to Russia from Ukraine and its two Russian-backed rebel regions, the TASS news agency said on Friday, citing an unidentified source. (Report...
Mar 11, 2022
Russian-backed separatists capture Ukraine’s Volnovakha – RIA
(Reuters) - Russian-backed separatists have captured the Ukrainian city of Volnovakha north of the besieged Azov Sea port of Mariupol, the RIA news agency quoted Russia's defence ministry as saying on...
Mar 11, 2022
