Author Archives: Syndicated Content
‘Please get in touch’: UK searches for mystery spreader of Brazil variant
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday appealed for a mystery individual infected with a highly transmissible Brazilian variant of the novel coronavirus to come forward, more than t...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
Finland declares state of emergency as COVID-19 cases rise
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish government declared a state of emergency on Monday due to rising COVID-19 infections, a step that would allow the Nordic country to shutter restaurants and to impose o...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
China’s Tencent Cloud to open datacentre in Bahrain
DUBAI (Reuters) - Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings, will launch an internet data centre in Bahrain by the end of 2021, Bahrain said on Monday. The me...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
Montreal’s Olympic Stadium opens to vaccinating elderly as Canada plays catch-up
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp-up in Canada, one of the country's largest stadiums is preparing to receive thousands of elderly, while provinces enlist dentists,...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
Israeli Supreme Court bans unlimited COVID-19 mobile phone tracking
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court on Monday banned the government from sweeping use of mobile phone tracking of coronavirus carriers, calling the measure a grave infraction...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
McKesson begins distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. drug distributor McKesson Corp said on Monday it had begun distribution of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine became the third authorized COVID-19 vaccine in the United...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end
SANAA (Reuters) - Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything including his wife's gold to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen's capital Sanaa, widow Mona...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
Futures jump on J&J vaccine cheer, stimulus optimism
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures jumped more than 1% on Monday as Johnson & Johnson's newly approved COVID-19 vaccine and progress in a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package ...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
France steps up economic stimulus rollout with more cash for industry
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is accelerating the rollout of its economic stimulus plan by ploughing an extra billion euros into support for the industrial sector, Finance Minister Bruno Le ...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021
WTO to hold ministerial meeting in Geneva in late 2021: sources
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization members agreed on Monday to hold the next major ministerial meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in late 2021, delegates told Reuters. The biennial conference was...
Syndicated Content Mar 01, 2021





