Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Lufthansa to lay off 1,000 pilots in second quarter if no wage deal reached: CEO
BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa will have to lay off 1,000 pilots in the second quarter if it cannot seal a wage agreement with unions, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told German magazine Wirtschaftswoche...
Dec 11, 2020
Taiwan commissions new coast guard ships to bolster defences
By Ben Blanchard KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan commissioned the first of a new fleet of coastguard ships on Friday, an advanced catamaran that can be armed with missiles during war, as the isla...
Dec 11, 2020
Sanofi/GSK announce delay in COVID-19 vaccine project
PARIS (Reuters) - An experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sanofi and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline showed an insufficient immune response in clinical trial results, the French drugmaker said on Frid...
Dec 11, 2020
Roche launches lab antigen test to support high-volume COVID-19 testing
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche said on Friday it launched a laboratory SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of suspected COVID-19 patients. The Elecsys SARS-CoV-2 antigen test is an automa...
Dec 11, 2020
Investors back overhaul of Australian mining sector following caves inquiry
By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rio Tinto's legal destruction of ancient Australian rockshelters showed the mining sector was exposed to material investment risks without more reforms, institu...
Dec 11, 2020
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
By Cate Cadell WUHAN, China (Reuters) - For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten min...
Dec 11, 2020
Zurich to buy MetLife U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion
ZURICH (Reuters) - Zurich Insurance said its subsidiary Farmers Group and Farmers Exchanges had agreed to acquire MetLife's property and casualty business in the U.S. for $3.94 billion. The transactio...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S., allies to raise human rights in North Korea at U.N. Security Council
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half the 15-member U.N. Security Council plan to raise the issue of rights abuses in North Korea during a closed-door meeting on Friday - a move likely ...
Dec 11, 2020
Factbox: Latest on worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - Advisers to the U.S. health regulator backed the emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine even as President-elect Joe Biden's top coronavirus adviser warned against Christmas parties and...
Dec 11, 2020
Exclusive: ‘Avoid getting caught’ – report details how Carlsberg, SABMiller and UB fixed beer prices in India
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Top executives of Carlsberg, SABMiller and India's United Breweries (UB) exchanged commercially sensitive information and colluded to fix beer prices in India ove...
Dec 11, 2020
