Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Governor of Japan’s Osaka to cancel Olympic torch relay on prefecture streets
TOKYO (Reuters) - The governor of Japan's major western prefecture of Osaka, Hirofumi Yoshimura, said he would cancel Olympic torch runs slated to take place on the public streets due to a surge in CO...
Apr 07, 2021
Finnish nurse squeezes extra vaccine doses with air-bubble technique
(Corrects to identify speaker in final paragraph) By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish nurse Sari Roos is teaching her colleagues a vaccination technique that enables her to squeeze more doses ou...
Apr 07, 2021
Analysis: High stakes at sea in global rush for wind power
By Susanna Twidale and Nora Buli LONDON(Reuters) - Global competition for offshore wind power is so hot that licence auctions now resemble the oil and gas competitions of just a few years ago, and som...
Apr 07, 2021
Pandemic drives Germany to highest deficit in 30 years: statistics office
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's public sector deficit reached 189.2 billion euros ($225 billion) in 2020 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the first deficit since 2013 and the highest budget shortfall ...
Apr 07, 2021
Rakuten CEO Mikitani says hosting Tokyo Games this summer ‘too risky’
TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, said on Wednesday it was "too risky" to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, as the nation struggles ...
Apr 07, 2021
Exclusive-India’s Shilpa Medicare can make 100-200 million doses of COVID-19 shot, says executive
By Sachin Ravikumar BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Shilpa Medicare Ltd has the production capacity to make 100-200 million doses of a recombinant vaccine for COVID-19, a company executive told...
Apr 07, 2021
Moscow and Washington in contact over Russia’s climate summit participation: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow and Washington are in contact over whether Russia will attend a climate summit after U.S. President Joe Biden invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, RIA cited Russia...
Apr 07, 2021
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: A third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders - study One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more ...
Apr 07, 2021
Singapore economic contraction seen easing in first quarter, central bank on hold: Reuters poll
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's economy is expected to contract only slightly in the first quarter as activity continues to recover from a pandemic-induced shock, a Reuters poll showed, with the cen...
Apr 07, 2021
Climate change protesters break windows at Barclays London HQ
LONDON (Reuters) - Protesters against climate change broke windows at the London headquarters of Barclays in the Canary Wharf business district on Wednesday. The activists from the Extinction Rebellio...
Apr 07, 2021
