Author Archives: Syndicated Content

By Joe Bavier and Karin Strohecker JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zambia and the International Monetary Fund begin discussing a loan programme and debt relief for Africa's first pandemic-era sovereign defau...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will extend its free COVID-19 vaccination programme to all foreigners residing in the country, including students, refugees and undocumented migrants, the government ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has purchased 600,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, in addition to 200,000 China has donated, its information minister said on Wednesday, adding these were...

USTRALIA CORORN(Reuters) - Health authorities in Australia's Victoria state ramped up contact tracing and prepared for more mass testing of residents in Melbourne after a new COVID-19 cluster linked t...

By Scott Murdoch and Samuel Shen HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global financial firms including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Fidelity International are poised to add hundreds of staff in China this year as th...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Reigning champion Sofia Kenin crashed out of the Australian Open in the second round on Thursday, slumping to a 6-3 6-2 defeat at the hands of world number 65 Kaia Kanepi on Marg...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World number one Ash Barty suffered a meltdown on the brink of victory but regathered herself to fend off compatriot Daria Gavrilova 6-1 7-6(7) and reach the third round of the A...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee, is set to step down over sexist remarks he made that women talked too much, the Fuji News Network reported on...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee voted Wednesday to approve a plan to provide $42 billion in assistance to transportation sectors and workers as part of a $1.9 trillio...

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Chinese New Year arrives on Friday but Hsieh Su-wei's parents may know better than to expect a call from their daughter after the Taiwanese maverick burnished her g...