Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK finance minister to provide as much economic support as possible: health minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister will provide as much support for jobs as possible when he announces his economic winter plan later on Thursday, said his colleague health minister Matt Ha...
Sep 24, 2020
Unusually heavy rains in Senegal expose big gap in $1.4 billion flood plan
By Alessandra Prentice DAKAR (Reuters) - More than two weeks after heavy rains hit Senegal, thigh-high stagnant water still fills streets in Dakar's suburbs, as angry residents ask what happened to a ...
Sep 24, 2020
French business confidence grew in September despite COVID resurgence
PARIS (Reuters) - French business confidence rose in September to its highest level since just before the coronavirus outbreak, despite a resurgence of new cases in recent weeks, a monthly survey show...
Sep 24, 2020
UK health minister doesn’t rule out telling uni students to stay away from home at Christmas
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock on Thursday didn't rule out the possibility that university students would have to stay away from home over Christmas to reduce the spread of CO...
Sep 24, 2020
Less than 10,000 getting COVID-19 each day, UK health minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government estimates less than 10,000 people a day are contracting COVID-19, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday, less than during the pandemic's peak, even as...
Sep 24, 2020
Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand began legal action on Thursday against Facebook and Twitter for ignoring requests to take down content, in its first su...
Sep 24, 2020
Vifor’s Ferinject misses target in heart failure trial
ZURICH (Reuters) - Vifor Pharma's iron-deficiency therapy Ferinject missed its main goal of reducing risk of total heart failure hospitalizations and cardiovascular death in a trial of 1,132 hospitali...
Sep 24, 2020
China’s CNBG to donate 200,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to medics in Wuhan
BEIJING (Reuters) - China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Thursday it will donate 200,000 doses of its candidate coronavirus vaccine to the central city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged la...
Sep 24, 2020
Nobel winners to get $110,000 raise as prize money increased
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said on Thursday. Prize ...
Sep 24, 2020
Iraq oil minister expects deal to up oil exports: report
CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraq's oil minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar expects an agreement with the OPEC+ group to increase Iraq's crude oil exports, state news agency INA cited him as saying on Thursday. The agen...
Sep 24, 2020
