Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. SEC votes to relax requirements on companies’ ‘resource extraction’ disclosure to foreign governments
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to relax disclosure requirements on payments made by oil, gas and mining companies to foreign g...
Dec 16, 2020
Italy reports 680 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, 17,572 new cases
ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 680 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday against 846 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 17,572 from 14,844. Th...
Dec 16, 2020
Boeing grants vested shares to some employees, halts merit pay raises
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Wednesday it was suspending annual merit salary increases in 2021 for most employees, managers and executives, as the embattled U.S. planemaker...
Dec 16, 2020
Top U.S. health official says Pfizer may be facing challenges manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines
(Reuters) - U.S. officials are working with Pfizer Inc to help maximize production capacity for its COVID-19 vaccine after the drugmaker told them that it may be facing production challenges, U.S. Sec...
Dec 16, 2020
Czechs book up rapid-result COVID tests before Christmas reunions
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czechs on Wednesday scrambled to book free rapid-result COVID-19 tests, offered by the government to slow rising cases and give families a chance to meet at Christmas with less chan...
Dec 16, 2020
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, annou...
Dec 16, 2020
Families of kidnapped Nigerian boys fear time running out
By Afolabi Sotunde KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Families of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys worried they may be brainwashed or held for years as security forces continued the hunt on Wedne...
Dec 16, 2020
Denmark to close shops and shopping malls during Christmas, Ekstra Bladet newspaper reports
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's government will order shopping malls to close starting Thursday and other shops to close starting Dec. 25 to prevent further spread of COVID-19, newspaper Ekstra Blade...
Dec 16, 2020
France could administer first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in last week of December – Castex
PARIS (Reuters) - The first doses of COVID-19 vaccines could be administered to people in France in the last week of December, French Prime Minister Jean Castex told parliament on Wednesday. Castex ad...
Dec 16, 2020
Somalia’s opposition urges Turkey not to send arms to police unit
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's opposition says it has written to Turkey urging it not to send a planned shipment of weapons to a special police unit that they fear incumbent President ...
Dec 16, 2020
