Author Archives: Syndicated Content
France has no plan to order a new coronavirus lockdown: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's government has no plan to order a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the country, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday. Le Mai...
Sep 28, 2020
Walmart picks EG Group founders, TDR Capital as winning Asda bidders: Sky News
(Reuters) - Walmart Inc has selected the founders of UK petrol station operator EG Group and private equity firm TDR Capital as the preferred bidders for its Asda supermarket chain, valued at 6.5 bill...
Sep 28, 2020
Wider image: The pandemic, a deadly cancer and my 14-year-old daughter
By Darrin Zammit Lupi VALLETTA, Malta (Reuters) - Strangely, I can't clearly picture the face of the surgeon who changed my family's life. I'm not sure I'd recognize him if I bumped into him in the st...
Sep 28, 2020
‘Music is not a crime’: U.N. experts urge Nigeria to lift singer’s death sentence
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international ...
Sep 28, 2020
Shale producer Devon Energy to buy peer WPX Energy for $2.56 billion
(Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer Devon Energy Corp will buy peer WPX Energy Inc for $2.56 billion, the company said on Monday, as it looks to expand its presence in the Delaware portion of the Pe...
Sep 28, 2020
Inovio’s potential COVID-19 vaccine trial on partial clinical hold
(Reuters) - Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had placed a partial clinical hold on the company's planned mid-to-late-stage trial of its experimental coro...
Sep 28, 2020
Nobel laureate Alexievich leaves Belarus to get medical treatment in Germany
MINSK (Reuters) - Nobel laureate author Svetlana Alexievich, a prominent opposition figure, has left Belarus for a trip to Germany, but her departure is not linked to politics and she plans to return,...
Sep 28, 2020
Russia supplies Covid-19 vaccine to Belarus for clinical trials
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has sent a first batch of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine to Belarus for clinical trials, the first such delivery of the jab abroad, Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF said on...
Sep 28, 2020
Germany to issue 6 billion euros more debt than planned in fourth quarter due to coronavirus
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to issue 6 billion euros ($7 billion) more debt in the fourth quarter than it originally planned, the German finance agency said on Monday, to fund spending to tackle ...
Sep 28, 2020
Police examine video of suspect claiming Paris knife attack
PARIS (Reuters) - French police are studying a video in which the man suspected of attacking people with a meat cleaver on Friday says he will commit an act of "resistance" after the republication of ...
Sep 28, 2020
