Author Archives: Syndicated Content
South Korea parliament set to pass law to curb ‘fake news’
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling party is set to revise a media law to rein in "fake news" by giving courts the power to award much bigger damages but opponents said it would disco...
Aug 25, 2021
COVID jab protection wanes within six months – UK researchers
LONDON (Reuters) - Protection against COVID-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for b...
Aug 25, 2021
China administered total of 1.976 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Aug. 24
BEIJING (Reuters) - China administered about 13.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Aug. 24, bringing the total number of doses administered to 1.976 billion, data from the National Health Commiss...
Aug 25, 2021
Thailand develops robotic system to squeeze out more vaccine doses
By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - As Thailand struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet, researchers in the country have developed a machine to draw out COVID-19 vaccine doses more ef...
Aug 25, 2021
UK says deadline for Afghanistan evacuation is to the last minute of Aug. 31
LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Wednesday that the deadline for evacuating people from Afghanistan was up to the last minute of this month. Raab was asked after a Whit...
Aug 25, 2021
Morrisons set to enter FTSE 100 as M&A interest boost shares
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket Morrisons is set to enter the FTSE 100 index, Britain's blue chip benchmark, after its share price surged over 60% since receiving an offer from private equity f...
Aug 25, 2021
Marketmind: Europe’s powerhouse just isn’t feeling it
LONDON (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead from Dhara Ranasinghe. As the COVID-19 Delta variant and supply chain disruptions persist globally, damage inflicted on business sentiment in Europe's bigges...
Aug 25, 2021
‘Very probable’ that France’s Afghan evacuation operations will end Thursday -minister
PARIS (Reuters) - It is "very probable" that France's operations to evacuate its citizens and partners from Afghanistan will end on Thursday, French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune told C New...
Aug 25, 2021
German exports to China fall for first time in nearly a year
BERLIN (Reuters) - German exports to China declined for the first time in nearly a year in July, easing by 3.9% year-on-year to 8.4 billion euros ($9.9 billion), the statistics office said on Wednesda...
Aug 25, 2021
Klarna transactions value jumps as U.S. growth gives boost
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish "buy now, pay later" company Klarna on Wednesday reported a jump in transactions using its platform for the April-June quarter as it reached 20 million users in the United...
Aug 25, 2021
