Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Futures rise ahead of weekly unemployment data
By Devik Jain and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose slightly on Wednesday as investors appeared to have shrugged off President Donald Trump's threat to not sign a COVID-19 stimul...
Dec 23, 2020
Merck in supply agreement with U.S. government for its COVID-19 treatment
(Reuters) - Merck & Co said on Wednesday it will supply about 60,000-100,000 doses of its COVID-19 treatment to the U.S. government for up to about $356 million. The agreement will help support advanc...
Dec 23, 2020
Special Report-Challenging police violence … while Black
By Andrea Januta, Andrew Chung, Jaimi Dowdell and Lawrence Hurley (Reuters) - Luke Stewart was sleeping in his car in Euclid, Ohio, when police came upon him. Moments later, he lay dying from gunshot ...
Dec 23, 2020
Telecom Italia to retain Nokia as supplier, curbing Huawei’s share of 5G radio network – sources
By Elvira Pollina and Supantha Mukherjee MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia has decided to retain Nokia as a supplier and reduce Huawei's share of a planned purchase of equipment for building a 5G netwo...
Dec 23, 2020
Indonesia cabinet switch no panacea as COVID-19 crisis deepens
By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo may struggle to convince some that his cabinet shakeup amid a deteriorating coronavirus crisis means a shift in strategy in fig...
Dec 23, 2020
Fire breaks out in Bosnia migrant centre, police say
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Fire broke out on Wednesday in a migrant centre in northwestern Bosnia where about 1,200 people had been accommodated, the regional police said. Local web portal Klix reported the...
Dec 23, 2020
Badminton: Russia’s Khakimov banned for five years over betting, fixing offences
(Reuters) - Russian doubles badminton player Nikita Khakimov has received a five-year ban after being found guilty of offences relating to "betting, wagering and irregular match results", the Badminto...
Dec 23, 2020
UK coronavirus variant likely found in Hong Kong as city secures vaccine supplies
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A new variant of the novel coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in Britain appears to have infected two students who returned to Hong Kong from the UK, Hong Kong's Department of...
Dec 23, 2020
Basketball: Barcelona deny abandoning player in Istanbul
BARCELONA (Reuters) - FC Barcelona's basketball team have denied they refused to allow their player Thomas Heurtel to board their plane after a Euroleague defeat by Anadolu Efes in Istanbul on Tuesday...
Dec 23, 2020
Dutch prosecutors asked to check whether Dutch soldiers killed Afghan civilians
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Defence Ministry said on Wednesday it had asked prosecutors to look into a report by a war veteran that Dutch soldiers fired at and may have killed civilians in the Afg...
Dec 23, 2020
