Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Joy and caution as Greek shops re-open amid strict safety limits
By Deborah Kyvrikosaios ATHENS (Reuters) - Shops in Greece reopened for the first time in two months on Monday as the government took its first steps towards easing coronavirus restrictions, in a bid ...
Jan 18, 2021
Japan finds COVID-19 variant in three people with no record of travel to UK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese doctors have detected a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus first discovered in Britain in three people who had not travelled there, the Health Ministry said on Mo...
Jan 18, 2021
Indian opposition seeks inquiry into security leak after TV anchor’s messages emerge
By Alasdair Pal and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian opposition parties called on Monday for an investigation into chat messages from a top TV anchor that they said showed prior kno...
Jan 18, 2021
Biden taps Chopra as consumer financial regulator, Gensler as SEC chairman – statement
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Gary Gensler to serve as the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission member Rohit Chopra to head th...
Jan 18, 2021
Tennis: Davis Cup Finals to take place over 11 days, three cities
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - The 2021 Davis Cup Finals will be held over 11 days rather than seven and will almost certainly be staged across three cities, the International Tennis Federation (...
Jan 18, 2021
Exclusive: India’s budget seen raising import duties by 5%-10% on dozens of items, sources say
By Aftab Ahmed and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is considering hiking import duties by 5%-10% on more than 50 items including smartphones, electronic components and appliances in the upcomi...
Jan 18, 2021
Russians queue for COVID vaccine at luxury Red Square mall
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of Moscow residents queued on Monday to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at the GUM department store, opposite the Kremlin on Red Square, where the shot is given on a first-com...
Jan 18, 2021
Sinovac says its COVID-19 vaccine more effective with longer dosing interval
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Sinovac Biotech said on Monday that a clinical trial in Brazil showed its COVID-19 vaccine was almost 20 percentage points more effective in a small sub-group of patients w...
Jan 18, 2021
Latest on worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - The world is on the brink of "catastrophic moral failure" in sharing COVID-19 vaccines, the head of the World Health Organization said, urging countries and manufacturers to spread doses m...
Jan 18, 2021
As bodies pile up, Germany’s eastern COVID hot spots struggle for answers
By Joseph Nasr MEISSEN, Germany (Reuters) - For some in Meissen the caskets piling up in the eastern German city's sole crematorium are a tragic reminder of what happens when the coronavirus is not ta...
Jan 18, 2021
