Author Archives: Syndicated Content
World Economic Forum again delays annual meeting in Singapore
ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Economic Forum has again pushed back its 2021 annual meeting in Singapore, rescheduling it for August from May given what it called "challenges in containing the pandemic"...
Feb 03, 2021
Jazz Pharma adds cannabis-based drug in $7.2 billion deal for GW Pharma
By Ankur Banerjee and Shariq Khan (Reuters) - Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc said on Wednesday it would buy GW Pharmaceuticals plc in a $7.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to bolster its neuroscience business ...
Feb 03, 2021
Israel razes Palestinian Bedouin village for second time
By Adel Abu Nimeh JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel has begun demolishing a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank for the second time in three months, in what a rights group called an at...
Feb 03, 2021
COVID-19 cases falling in U.S., Canada, but still rising in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil – PAHO
BRASILIA (Reuters) - COVID-19 infections are finally decreasing in the United States and Canada after weeks of unrelenting rise, but in Mexico cases and deaths continue to increase, particularly in st...
Feb 03, 2021
Swiss delay AstraZeneca COVID vaccine approval, order more shots from others
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has withheld approval for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Wednesday, demanding more efficacy and quality data before gr...
Feb 03, 2021
World Court to hear sanctions dispute filed by Iran against United States
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges at the highest U.N. court for disputes between states on Wednesday ruled that they can hear a case filed by Iran against the United States seeking to have sanctions agains...
Feb 03, 2021
‘We’ve lost so many’: Brazil starts vaccinating Amazon river dwellers
By Bruno Kelly MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) - Health workers sped along the Amazon river this week to start vaccinating riverside communities, bringing hope to a region hard hit by COVID-19 and now fa...
Feb 03, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court tosses ruling against Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lower court ruling that had let a lawsuit proceed in the United States against Germany over claims that its former Nazi gove...
Feb 03, 2021
Britain has given 10 million people a first COVID-19 vaccine dose
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 10 million people in Britain have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday, describing the milestone as "hugely signi...
Feb 03, 2021
Crossing the COVID chasm between Israel and the Palestinian Territories
By Zainah El-Haroun and Adel Abu Nimeh JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, Ismail Daiq is used to negotiating the dividing lines between communities: the daily commute...
Feb 03, 2021
