Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Shell to write down assets again, taking cuts to more than $22 billion
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell on Monday said it will write down the value of oil and gas assets by $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion following a string of impairments this year as it a...
Dec 21, 2020
Relatives of HK dozen detained in China ask for adequate trial notice
By Katherine Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Relatives of some of the 12 Hong Kong people captured by China at sea as they tried to flee by boat asked authorities on Monday to give them 20-days' notice of...
Dec 21, 2020
Morgan Stanley fund to take over German fibre operator Tele Columbus
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fund backed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners has made a cash offer to buy Germany's Tele Columbus AG in an agreed deal that values the fibre network operator at over 400 ...
Dec 21, 2020
Air France KLM, Getlink shares slide as Europe closes doors to UK on COVID fears
PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in Air France KLM and Channel Tunnel operator Getlink slumped on Monday after Britain's European neighbours began closing their doors to travellers from the United Kingdom due...
Dec 21, 2020
Pelletier-Normand named as CEO of Angry Birds maker Rovio
(Reuters) - Finnish gaming firm Rovio, known for its Angry Birds games, said on Monday it had named Alexandre Pelletier-Normand as its chief executive, taking over from Kati Levoranta in January. "Ale...
Dec 21, 2020
Sydneysiders race for drive-through COVID tests as outbreak looms over Christmas
By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - With Sydney's beachside suburbs in lockdown due to a growing coronavirus outbreak, residents of Australia's largest city flocked in record numbers to get tested for C...
Dec 21, 2020
UK cut off from Europe over fears about new COVID strain
DOVER, England (Reuters) - The United Kingdom was on Monday shut off from much of Europe after its closest allies cut transport ties due to fears about a new strain of the coronavirus, sowing chaos fo...
Dec 21, 2020
French Health Minister: COVID-19 vaccines should work against new strain of virus
PARIS (Reuters) - French Health Minister Olivier Veran told Europe 1 radio on Monday that current COVID-19 vaccines should work against a new strain of the virus, recently found in the United Kingdom....
Dec 21, 2020
AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso gets broader U.S. FDA nod for lung cancer
(Reuters) -AstraZeneca Plc said on Monday that the U.S. drug regulator had approved Tagrisso, the British drugmaker's top selling treatment for another type of lung cancer when diagnosed at an early s...
Dec 21, 2020
Nestle wins European Commission approval for peanut allergy drug Palforzia
ZURICH (Reuters) - Nestle won European Commission approval for its peanut allergy drug Palforzia that it bought with its acquisition of Aimmune Therapeutics earlier this year, the Swiss food and nutri...
Dec 21, 2020
