Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Aramco to bring Google Cloud services to Saudi Arabia
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco Development Co, a subsidiary of Aramco, has teamed up with Google Cloud to offer cloud services to customers in Saudi Arabia, Aramco said on Monday. Saudi Arabia, under ...
Dec 21, 2020
European medicines regulator authorises Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Europe's medicines regulator on Monday approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by U.S. company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, putting Europe on course...
Dec 21, 2020
Traffic rises at U.S. airports as 3.2 million screened over weekend
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened more than 1 million airline passengers for the first time since mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic d...
Dec 21, 2020
Egypt needs to do more to help private sector, World Bank says
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's private sector has been blocked from taking on a bigger role in the economy despite aggressive macroeconomic reforms over the last four years, and government help is needed, ...
Dec 21, 2020
Colorful ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ hits theaters, and living rooms, on Christmas
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic book hero Wonder Woman returns to the screen on Christmas Day with a hefty mission: bring holiday cheer to pandemic-weary audiences, provide a boost to s...
Dec 21, 2020
Britain stands by Brexit transition period ending on Dec. 31, PM’s spokesman says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will end a transition period with the European Union on Dec. 31, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, after Scotland's first minister called on the l...
Dec 21, 2020
German court sentences synagogue gunman to life in prison
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Monday sentenced a man to life in prison for killing two people in a shooting attack near a synagogue in eastern Germany on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur last ...
Dec 21, 2020
UK finds two men guilty of manslaughter for Vietnamese truck deaths – PA Media
LONDON (Reuters) - Two men were found guilty in a London court of the manslaughter of 39 men, women and children from Vietnam after they were found suffocated in the back of a container truck, PA Medi...
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. health official says ‘everything on table’ about possible UK travel ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Brett Giroir on Monday said that it was possible the United States would ban travel from the United Kingdom as a new variant of the deadly corona...
Dec 21, 2020
Bitcoin slumps 6% as new COVID-19 strain upsets wider markets
By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin dropped as much as 6% on Monday, with fears over a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain in Britain hitting assets across wider markets. The cryptocurrency was...
Dec 21, 2020
