Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Roche discontinues dosing for Huntington’s disease treatment
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche said on Monday it decided to discontinue dosing in a phase III study of tominersen in manifest Huntington's disease, a rare genetic disease with no approved therapies. The dec...
Mar 22, 2021
Tencent and Warner Music sign multi-year licensing agreement
(Reuters) - Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Warner Music signed an expanded multi-year strategic licensing agreement and agreed to establish a joint venture music label in China, the companies s...
Mar 22, 2021
Tencent Music quarterly revenue rises on paying-user additions
(Reuters) - China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group posted a 14.3% rise in quarterly revenue on Monday, as the music streaming platform benefited from adding more paying users and a rebound in ad sa...
Mar 22, 2021
Coursera looks to raise up to $519 million via U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Online education provider Coursera Inc is looking to raise as much as about $519 million through an initial public offering in the United States, according to a regulatory filing on Monday...
Mar 22, 2021
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he is still not ‘convinced’ by COVID-19 restrictions
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday said he had not yet been convinced to change his long-held stance against lockdown measures to control the coronavirus outbreak ...
Mar 22, 2021
Kosovo parliament backs Albin Kurti as new prime minister
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's parliament backed Albin Kurti as prime minister on Monday, more than a month after the small Balkan country held a snap election. Kurti, 46, a leftist and an Albanian nat...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. drillers, miners would be out billions if paid climate, health costs: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. coal, natural gas and motor fuel producers get implicit benefits worth tens of billion of dollars a year by not having to pay for the damage their products do to the climat...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. Postal chief set to release 10-year strategic plan
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to release a 10-year strategic plan as early as Tuesday expected to propose slowing delivery standards for some fi...
Mar 22, 2021
Extradited North Korean appears in U.S. court over money laundering
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Korean citizen accused by the United States of laundering money to circumvent U.S. and U.N. sanctions over his country's nuclear weapons program appeared in a U.S. court...
Mar 22, 2021
Men outnumber women three to one on COVID-19 task forces
By Matthew Lavietes NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Men outnumber women three to one on government coronavirus task forces globally, a disparity that risks creating an unequal recovery, the Un...
Mar 22, 2021
