Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Argentina seeks $44 billion IMF deal to repay debt: WSJ
(Reuters) - Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Guzman is pushing for a deal by May with the International Monetary Fund to repay $44 billion in debt, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, cit...
Jan 30, 2021
Philippines’ Duterte tightens anti-money laundering rules to avoid `grey list’
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law on Friday to strengthen anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations ahead of a Feb. 1 deadline set by a global financ...
Jan 30, 2021
Fresh data show toll South African virus variant takes on vaccine efficacy
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Clinical trial data on two COVID-19 vaccines show that a coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa is lessening their ability to protect against the...
Jan 30, 2021
Iran imposes mandatory quarantine for travellers from Europe
(Reuters) - Travellers to Iran from Europe will be required to self-quarantine for two weeks after testing negative upon arrival, a health official said on Saturday. Travellers from other regions, inc...
Jan 30, 2021
Analysis: Robinhood and Reddit protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc's user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked a frenzied trading rally in compani...
Jan 30, 2021
Analysis: A tulip by another name? ‘Gamestonk’ and the case for investor caution
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - It sounds like the start of a parable: Investors stuck inside during a pandemic begin to bid up an asset until its price becomes untethered to reality. The value ...
Jan 30, 2021
Exclusive: China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain scie...
Jan 30, 2021
Man charged over suspect package sent to UK AstraZeneca vaccine plant
LONDON (Reuters) - A man has been charged after a suspicious package was sent to a factory in Wales that produces AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine resulting in a temporary suspension of manufacturing, B...
Jan 30, 2021
Ireland says given no forewarning about triggering of Brexit clause
By Padraic Halpin and John Chalmers DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland was not consulted by the European Commission before it briefly sought to restrict some exports of COVID-19 vaccines by invoking an emerge...
Jan 30, 2021
Russia and Turkey open monitoring centre for Nagorno-Karabakh
BAKU (Reuters) - Russia and Turkey opened a joint centre on Saturday to observe a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh that was agreed following a flare-up in the conflict in the region last year, Azerbaijan...
Jan 30, 2021
