Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Crypto crime slows in 2020, but ‘DeFi’ hacks rise: CipherTrace report
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Losses from cryptocurrency thefts, hacks, and fraud declined to $1.8 billion for the first 10 months of the year compared with last year, but crime in ...
Nov 10, 2020
Special Report: Phantom buyers in Russia, advice from Iran help Venezuela skirt sanctions
By Marianna Parraga, Rinat Sagdiev and Parisa Hafezi MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - On Aug. 21, a tanker called the Otoman docked at the Jose oil terminal on Venezuela's coast in the Caribbean to load 1.82 m...
Nov 10, 2020
Dutch COVID-19 wave recedes, hospitals still strained
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities warned on Tuesday that social distancing measures must remain in place despite a sharp fall in coronavirus cases, as hospitals remain under pressure due to heav...
Nov 10, 2020
Uber launches feature in U.S. to let customers reserve rides in advance
By Tina Bellon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday said it would roll out a new feature in the United States that will allow customers to reserve scheduled rides up to 30 days in adv...
Nov 10, 2020
Poland looks into coronavirus risks at mink farms
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will conduct coronavirus tests among its farmed minks and check whether farm workers and their families have been infected with COVID-19, following the findings of a mutated ...
Nov 10, 2020
South Korea confirms H5N8 bird flu in wild birds, issues warning
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain of bird flu in samples from wild birds in the central west of the country and is...
Nov 10, 2020
Still no clarity from UK to assess financial market access, says EU
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission is still waiting for Britain to say if it will diverge from European Union rules before Brussels can decide on UK financial market access, a spo...
Nov 10, 2020
Janssen, Novavax plan Mexican late stage COVID-19 vaccine trials, minister says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit has received the green light to carry out late stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine in Mexico, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday. ...
Nov 10, 2020
EU to tighten rules on online extremism after latest attacks
By John Chalmers and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU plans to tighten its rules to combat online extremism, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday, ahead of a me...
Nov 10, 2020
Dutch to cull 48,000 chickens after new outbreak of bird flu in north
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch health officials on Tuesday ordered the culling of 48,000 chickens after an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu was discovered on a farm in the northern province of Gron...
Nov 10, 2020
