Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK health official says more data needed on vaccine effectiveness on Brazil variant
LONDON (Reuters) - More data is needed to access the effectiveness of vaccines against the so-called Brazil variant of COVID-19, an British health official said on Monday. "The current vaccines have n...
Mar 01, 2021
U.S. panel recommends export ‘choke points’ to prevent Chinese dominance in semiconductors
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - A U.S. national security commission on Monday recommended Congress tighten up "choke points" on chipmaking technology to prevent China from overtaking the United States i...
Mar 01, 2021
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs restarts cryptocurrency desk amid bitcoin boom
By Anna Irrera, Iain Withers and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc has restarted its cryptocurrency trading desk and will begin dealing bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forw...
Mar 01, 2021
One Iranian-backed militia member killed, two injured in Syria strike: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. strike in Syria last week killed one Iranian backed militia member and injured two others, the Pentagon said on Monday. "We'll continue to assess, as you know we do, and ...
Mar 01, 2021
Exclusive: Six-week sprint got Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine approved in Canada
By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Problems at AstraZeneca Plc's European production site in January kicked off a six-week push to get a version of its COVID-19 vaccine made at an Indian facility ...
Mar 01, 2021
U.S. failure to sanction MbS for Khashoggi killing ‘dangerous’: U.N. expert
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday that it was "extremely dangerous" for the United States to have named Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler as having approved an operation t...
Mar 01, 2021
Fraudsters offer 1 billion COVID-19 doses across EU, agency warns
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dubious intermediaries have offered governments across the European Union a total of about 1 billion non-existent COVID-19 vaccine doses worth about 14 billi...
Mar 01, 2021
Czechs tighten COVID lockdown, seek more tests for factory workers
By Jiri Skacel and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic, battling the world's worst surge in COVID-19 infections, deployed more police officers and soldiers on Monday to help enforce ne...
Mar 01, 2021
U.S. turns over two men charged in Ghosn escape to Japan: AP
BOSTON (Reuters) - An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan were handed over on Monday to Japanese authorities for extradition from the...
Mar 01, 2021
Zamfara state govt in talks with kidnappers of 317 Nigerian schoolgirls: officials
MAIDUGRI (Reuters) - Officials in Nigeria's Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted 317 schoolgirls last week and are negotiating their release, two state officials told Reuters on Mon...
Mar 01, 2021
