Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Germany has supply deals with Abbot, Roche and Healthineers for antigen tests
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's health ministry has signed contracts with Abbot Laboratories, Roche and Siemens Healthineers to supply fast tests to detect coronavirus. A spokesman for the health ministr...
Oct 15, 2020
Greece blames Turkey for holding up foreign minister’s plane
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq, leaving it circling for 20 minutes before granting i...
Oct 15, 2020
‘Exhausted’ French healthcare workers tell Macron to hire more medics
NICE, France (Reuters) - French healthcare workers protested against exhausting working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and demanded the government hire more personnel. In the R...
Oct 15, 2020
Nigeria’s army says it is ready to maintain order as police protests continue
By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's army says it is ready to maintain law and order and deal decisively with any situation created by "trouble makers", while demonstrators calling for an ...
Oct 15, 2020
Walgreens fourth-quarter profit slumps 44.9% as COVID-19 hits store sales
(Reuters) - Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc said on Thursday its quarterly profit slumped 44.9%, as COVID-19 hampered sales at its retail stores in the United States and at its Boots UK u...
Oct 15, 2020
Yemen’s warring parties start swap of 1,000 prisoners
By Khaled Abdullah and Stephanie Nebehay SANAA/GENEVA (Reuters) - Planes carrying prisoners exchanged by the warring parties in Yemen took off from three airports on Thursday in an operation to return...
Oct 15, 2020
Central Americans edge north as pandemic spurs economic collapse
By Laura Gottesdiener, Lizbeth Diaz and Sarah Kinosian MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - After losing her job in Honduras, Gabriela Alvarado has spent the last six weeks crisscrossing towards the U.S. bor...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. gun sales soar amid pandemic, social unrest, election fears
By Tim McLaughlin and Melissa Fares (Reuters) - Andreyah Garland, a 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, Ne...
Oct 15, 2020
Weightlifting: USA, Britain slam ousting of IWF interim president
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - USA Weightlifting has condemned the 'outrageous' ousting of American Ursula Garza Papandrea as interim president of the world governing body, warning that the troubl...
Oct 15, 2020
Morgan Stanley launches program to boost diversity in trading unit
By Imani Moise (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is piloting a program to recruit Black talent in its capital markets division, executives told Reuters, in corporate America's latest initiative to improve di...
Oct 15, 2020
