Author Archives: Syndicated Content
United Airlines flight attendants raise alarm on crew quarantine protocols
By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines is telling some flight attendants whose colleagues test positive for COVID-19 to keep flying and monitor for symptoms, three employees told Reuter...
Dec 11, 2020
Georgia Republicans fired up for Senate runoff despite ‘rigged’ election fears
By Nathan Layne VALDOSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the young couple from Blairsville, Georgia at first resolved to skip the state's J...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. trying to secure more doses of Pfizer vaccine – FT
(Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to secure 100 million additional doses of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the order. Ope...
Dec 11, 2020
AMC Entertainment to get $100 million from Mudrick Capital
(Reuters) -Movie theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Friday it would issue shares to investment firm Mudrick Capital Management LP for a $100 million investment as it looks to prop...
Dec 11, 2020
Morocco, Israel normalisation is ‘betrayal’ of Palestine – Iranian official
DUBAI (Reuters) - Morocco's normalisation of relations with Israel is a betrayal and a stab in the back of Palestine, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, an adviser to Iran's parliamentary speaker, said on Frid...
Dec 11, 2020
Lloyds says Black employees paid nearly a fifth less than colleagues
LONDON (Reuters) - Black employees at Lloyds are paid nearly a fifth less on average than their colleagues, according to an ethnicity pay gap report published by the bank on Friday. The median pay gap...
Dec 11, 2020
French mistrust of government could hamper coronavirus vaccine drive
By Caroline Pailliez HERBLAY-SUR-SEINE, France (Reuters) - Boris Czajka knows how dangerous the coronavirus is. His wife Steffie suffered from an infection for months, and at the peak of her illness s...
Dec 11, 2020
Sequoia and KKR lead ByteDance funding round that values it at $180 billion: sources
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firms Sequoia Capital and KKR & Co are leading ByteDance's latest funding round that will value the Chinese tech giant and TikTok owner at $180 billion, two peo...
Dec 11, 2020
More witnesses expected in Huawei CFO’s extradition case after ‘incomplete’ testimony interruption
By Sarah Berman VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's witness cross examination has been extended into next week, as the court proceedings on Thursday were disrupted for ...
Dec 11, 2020
Any vaccine adverse effects up to national agencies to review – WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Any adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccines is for national authorities to review, a WHO spokeswoman said on Friday, in response to questions on Britain's regulatory agency warning p...
Dec 11, 2020
