Author Archives: Syndicated Content
FTSE Russell to remove SMIC and Hikvision from China indexes
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Global index publisher FTSE Russell will remove two U.S.-sanctioned Chinese companies from the FTSE China A50 Index and the FTSE China 50 index, it said on Tuesday. Chinese chipma...
Dec 22, 2020
New coronavirus variant probably exists in Germany – RKI institute
BERLIN (Reuters) - It is highly likely that the mutation of the coronavirus that has been found in Britain also exists in Germany, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) health institute said on ...
Dec 22, 2020
EU to get 12.5 million doses of BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by year-end
ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -BioNTech and U.S. drugmaker Pfizer will supply 12.5 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union by the end of the year, the German company said on Tuesday...
Dec 22, 2020
Hong Kong protester shot by police last year now in exile – group
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong student protester who was shot by police during last year's anti-government demonstrations and later charged with rioting and assaulting officers is in exile in an un...
Dec 22, 2020
Family stranded in South Africa as travel ban over mutant virus strain kicks in
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - When businesswoman Marina Wessolowski arrived in Cape Town on Dec. 12 she was looking forward to spending Christmas with family and friends before flying back to...
Dec 22, 2020
Somali hotel rises again after al Shabaab bombing
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A former minister in Somalia whose hotel was damaged in a bomb attack by the Islamist group al Shabaab says he is rebuilding and expanding, in an unusual show of b...
Dec 22, 2020
Cambodia court jails rappers for rhymes inciting crimes
By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian court convicted two rappers and sentenced them to up to a year and a half in prison on Tuesday on charges of incitement over their rhymes about soc...
Dec 22, 2020
Two Vatican cardinals, papal aides, test positive for coronavirus – source
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Two Vatican cardinals, including one who spends most his time helping Rome's homeless, have tested positive for the coronavirus, a Vatican source said on Tu...
Dec 22, 2020
It will be weeks before German coronavirus cases fall, says RKI health institute
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases (RKI) appealed to Germans on Tuesday to keep contact with other people to an absolute minimum and not to travel over Ch...
Dec 22, 2020
Blockchain firm Ripple plans to fight approaching U.S. SEC lawsuit
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ripple, the blockchain payments company associated with the cryptocurrency XRP, said on Tuesday it would oppose a lawsuit against it by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...
Dec 22, 2020
