Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Pence, Biden to get COVID vaccine in bid to build public support
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence will publicly receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday as the Trump administration scrambles to build public support for an inoculati...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. Congress wrangles over details of coronavirus economic aid as deadline approaches
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of feuding and with a weekend deadline fast approaching, U.S. congressional negotiators were wrangling over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 aid...
Dec 17, 2020
COVID vaccine is bonanza for digital supply chain tracking industry
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of vaccines go to waste globally every year because of temperature control, logistics and shipment-related issues. Logistical hurdles are a sig...
Dec 17, 2020
EU, UK officials cautious on any imminent trade deal breakthrough
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain were still "very far apart in key areas" of their trade talks, a British official said after the bloc's Brexit negotiator said on Thursday good prog...
Dec 17, 2020
Erdogan ally calls for Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party to be banned
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally said Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP party, the country's third biggest, should be banned for separatism - a move the HDP's co...
Dec 17, 2020
BioNTech says 140,000 vaccinated in Britain so far
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been given to 140,000 people in Britain, and the feedback on side effects and tolerability has been reassuring, BioNTech's chief medica...
Dec 17, 2020
Russia to ramp up support for Ukraine’s rebel-held east – Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would ramp up its support for Ukraine's rebel-controlled eastern Donbass region where conflict broke out in 2014 between pro-Mo...
Dec 17, 2020
Coronavirus won’t stop Japanese firms buying abroad, says Suntory CEO
By Ritsuko Ando TOKYO (Reuters) - The chief executive of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings said on Thursday the coronavirus crisis and other geopolitical risks would not deter his company or ot...
Dec 17, 2020
Putin says report outing Navalny’s alleged poisoners is ‘trick’ to attack Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a media investigation that identified named individuals as state security assassins responsible for the poisoning of Kremlin critic Al...
Dec 17, 2020
EU’s Barnier: good progress, last stumbling blocks in UK trade talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday that "good progress" was being made in UK talks and that "last stumbling blocks" stood in the way of sealing a new trade pact....
Dec 17, 2020
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