Author Archives: Syndicated Content
No firm evidence of food trade spreading coronavirus: FAO
PARIS (Reuters) - There is no significant evidence of coronavirus being spread through food trade and such reports "need to be minimised", Maximo Torero Cullen, chief economist of the United Nations f...
Nov 18, 2020
European shares extend losses as virus worries offset vaccine cheer
(Reuters) - European stocks slipped on Wednesday as worries about further economic damage and fresh lockdown measures caused by a resurgent pandemic dented recent optimism over promising vaccine trial...
Nov 18, 2020
British minister defends multi-million pound PPE deals after critical audit
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Business Secretary Alok Sharma refused to apologise for a lack of transparency in spending millions of pounds of tax-payer money to secure personal protection equipment, s...
Nov 18, 2020
Ethiopia pushes for Tigray capital, denies ‘ethnic bias’
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces pushed towards the capital of the rebel Tigray region on Wednesday, ignoring international appeals for talks to end the conflict and denyi...
Nov 18, 2020
Cash cards for kids: digital banks race to capture the next generation
By Anna Irrera and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - When John Hibbs' daughter Xanthe received her first bank card in the mail, the six-year-old spent the next week Googling how to buy a horse. Hibbs an...
Nov 18, 2020
Coronavirus-prevention success story Taiwan to tighten restrictions
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, a poster child for efforts to control the novel coronavirus, will from next month require almost all visitors to have negative COVID-19 tests before arriving, it said on Wed...
Nov 18, 2020
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed 55
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's health minister on Wednesday announced the end of an Ebola outbreak in the west of the country that infected 130 people and killed 55 since the firs...
Nov 18, 2020
Britain to ban new petrol cars by 2030 on road to net zero emissions
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, as part of what Prime Minister Boris Johns...
Nov 18, 2020
UK hopes to get a Brexit trade deal, business minister Sharma says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain hopes to get a Brexit trade deal but the European Union must understand that it is now dealing with a sovereign nation, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said on Wednesday. "I ...
Nov 18, 2020
UK inflation picks up a bit more than expected in October
LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation picked up by a little more than expected in October, pushed higher by prices for clothing and footwear and food as coronavirus restrictions tightened in much of th...
Nov 18, 2020
