Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Food workers, rural Americans go hungry despite U.S. government farm aid
By Christopher Walljasper and Gabriela Bhaskar GREEN BAY, Wis. (Reuters) - Yessenia Cendejas pulled up to a moving truck filled with donated food in northeastern Wisconsin, arriving at the mobile food...
Oct 27, 2020
Iran reports record 6,968 new coronavirus cases and 346 deaths in past 24 hours
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday reported 6,968 new coronavirus cases and 346 deaths in the past 24 hours, its highest daily tally, pushing the death toll in the hardest-hit Middle Eastern country to...
Oct 27, 2020
Alarmed Europe prepares for more COVID pain amid rising discontent
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - European governments prepared on Tuesday to introduce new restrictions to try to curb a growing surge of coronavirus infections across the continent and provide eco...
Oct 27, 2020
Pfizer not yet ready to release COVID-19 vaccine data
(Reuters) - Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it was not yet ready to release data from the late-stage trial of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate it is developing with Germany's BioNTech SE. Pfizer's ...
Oct 27, 2020
Belgium faces decision on possible new lockdown by weekend: official
By Kate Abnett and Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's federal government should decide by this weekend whether a return to a nationwide lockdown is required, as the country grapples with a ...
Oct 27, 2020
EU weighs buying Roche, Abbott rapid COVID tests amid limited supplies
By Francesco Guarascio and John Miller BRUSSELS/ZURICH (Reuters) - European countries are looking at buying millions of COVID-19 rapid tests mostly from Roche and Abbott, an EU document shows, as glob...
Oct 27, 2020
China’s Kashgar reports five new confirmed COVID-19 cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported five new confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday in Kashgar in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Kashgar health official said. Kashgar completed on Tuesday coron...
Oct 27, 2020
AMD to buy chip peer Xilinx for $35 billion in data center push
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx Inc in a $35 billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel Corp i...
Oct 27, 2020
Iliad wins EU antitrust okay for $4 billion Polish telecoms deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French telecoms operator Iliad on Tuesday won EU antitrust clearance for its 3.5-billion-euro ($4.14 billion)acquisition of Polish mobile group Play as it stepped up its overseas ...
Oct 27, 2020
NorthStar and Thales Alenia Space begin work on satellites to combat space collisions
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's NorthStar Earth & Space and Thales Alenia Space said on Tuesday they will begin work on a commercial satellite system to combat the threat of collisions in space. NorthSt...
Oct 27, 2020
