Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Tech leads crisis-driven M&A boom with $350 billion deal rush
(Reuters) - Global M&A volumes are approaching $2 trillion for 2020, with technology making up almost a fifth of the total after mammoth deals such as SoftBank's $40 billion sale of chipmaker Arm. Dea...
Sep 14, 2020
Researchers trial inhaled versions of Oxford and Imperial COVID-19 vaccine candidates
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Inhaled versions of COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by Oxford University and Imperial College will be trialled to see if they deliver a localised immune resp...
Sep 14, 2020
Former French President Giscard d’Estaing admitted to hospital: aide
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 94, was admitted to hospital on Monday after complaining of respiratory problems, one of his aides said. French newspaper Le Parisie...
Sep 14, 2020
Sea of Slush: Arctic sea ice lows mark a new polar climate regime
By Natalie Thomas and Cassandra Garrison ARCTIC OCEAN (Reuters) - At the edge of the ice blanketing part of the Arctic Ocean, the ice on Monday looked sickly. Where thick sheets of ice once sat atop t...
Sep 14, 2020
U.S. imposes additional visa restrictions on Nigerians
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed additional visa restrictions on Nigerians over election-related activities, the State Department said on Monday. The restrictions apply to "individuals...
Sep 14, 2020
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade to be reduced to television-only event
(Reuters) - Macy's Inc's iconic Thanksgiving Day Parade will shift to a television-only special presentation, the company and the City of New York said on Monday. The department store chain said stagi...
Sep 14, 2020
Palantir to float 257.1 million shares in U.S. listing
(Reuters) - Data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc, which will go public via a direct listing, said on Monday it had registered about 257.1 million of its shares for its stock market debut. ...
Sep 14, 2020
Bahraini, Israeli defence ministers hold first phone call
DUBAI (Reuters) - The defence ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call on Monday since their countries agreed to normalise ties. Bahraini state news agency BNA...
Sep 14, 2020
Uzbek police drop case against woman filmed beating up harassers
ALMATY (Reuters) - Police in Uzbekistan dropped a criminal case on Monday against a young woman who beat up two men in response to verbal abuse, after a number of public figures including President Sh...
Sep 14, 2020
Egyptian real estate firms’ profit hit by coronavirus crisis
By Ehab Farouk CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's five biggest listed real estate firms reported a combined profit fall of nearly 31% in the second quarter of 2020 as property sales slowed during the coronavir...
Sep 14, 2020
