Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Nvidia building UK supercomputer to boost COVID-19 research
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. chip giant Nvidia said on Monday it is building Britain's most powerful supercomputer, which will use artificial intelligence to help researchers solve pressing medical challen...
Oct 05, 2020
‘A matter of survival’: Lebanon’s hospitals on the brink as COVID cases surge
By Raya Jalabi BEIRUT (Reuters) - A drastic rise in COVID-19 infections has pushed Lebanon's hospitals to the edge, and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope as the country buckles under a suc...
Oct 05, 2020
UK must be hard-headed in relationship with China: Sunak
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must take a hard-headed, transactional approach to its relationship with China, British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday. "I think with China we also need to be r...
Oct 05, 2020
Britain opens investigation into coronavirus test and trace glitch
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has launched an investigation into why a technical issue with its test and trace programme had not been identified sooner, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris ...
Oct 05, 2020
Russia calls for examining U.S. moves ‘against the WHO’
GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia called on Monday for an evaluation of the legal and financial repercussions of the Trump administration announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. calls for WHO reforms, timely information on outbreaks
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, in apparent criticism of China, said on Monday that it could not tolerate the "failure" of a member state of the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide accura...
Oct 05, 2020
Indonesia parliament passes flagship jobs bill, critics vow protests
By Maikel Jefriando and Tabita Diela JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament passed into law President Joko Widodo's flagship "Job Creation" bill on Monday that aims to boost investment in Southeas...
Oct 05, 2020
Uber, Lyft spend big in California to oppose even costlier gig worker law
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc together are spending nearly $100 million on a November California ballot initiative to overturn a state law that would compel them to cla...
Oct 05, 2020
One in 10 may have caught COVID, as world heads into ‘difficult period’: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Roughly 1 in 10 people may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world's population vulnerable to the related COVID-19 disease, the World H...
Oct 05, 2020
Iceland closes bars, gyms again to curb coronavirus spread
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Iceland has ordered bars, gyms and entertainment venues to close and has sharply cut the number of people allowed to gather in public in order to curb a recent rise in COVID-19 ...
Oct 05, 2020
