Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oil outlook for 2021 hit by new COVID-19 strain: Reuters poll
By K. Sathya Narayanan (Reuters) - Oil prices are unlikely to mount much of a recovery in 2021 as a new coronavirus variant and related travel restrictions threaten already weakened fuel demand, a Reu...
Dec 31, 2020
Explainer-What we know about China-made vaccines
(Reuters) - China was ahead in the global race to develop coronavirus vaccines with the most candidates in late stage of trials earlier in the year and its first approval of a homemade shot for the ge...
Dec 31, 2020
Dutch charity says employee killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Dutch charity ZOA said one of its employees had been killed at a refugee camp in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia where the military has been fighting rebel forces. The chari...
Dec 31, 2020
UK to allow swaps trading on EU platforms to avoid disruption
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's markets watchdog said on Thursday it would allow UK market participants to use platforms in the European Union to trade swaps for up to three months in a bid to avoid pote...
Dec 31, 2020
Airbus says U.S. tariffs counterproductive, Europe should respond
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to expand tariffs against the European Union to components for aircraft made in the United States would harm its own workers and consumers and Europe should resp...
Dec 31, 2020
South Africa to get firm date on delivery of vaccine by early January, experts say
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will have a firm date on when it will get COVID-19 vaccine in the first few days of January, a senior health ministry official told a television news channel on T...
Dec 31, 2020
British PM Johnson’s father applying for French citizenship
PARIS (Reuters) - The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit....
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. blocks palm oil imports from Malaysia’s Sime Darby over forced labour allegations
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The United States has banned imports of palm oil from Malaysian producer Sime Darby Plantation from Wednesday over allegations of forced labour during production, the U.S. Cus...
Dec 31, 2020
Britain says decision to suspend U.S. tariffs already paying off
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday its decision to suspend retaliatory tariffs against the United States was already bearing fruit after it was spared in a new round of U.S. tariff increases ...
Dec 31, 2020
UK names Tesco and Pizza Hut for biggest breaches of minimum wage law
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco and Pizza Hut were the two biggest offenders among 139 employers who failed to pay staff the minimum wage between 2016 and 2018, Britain's government announc...
Dec 31, 2020
