Author Archives: Syndicated Content
When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them
By Edward McAllister and Cooper Inveen DAKAR/ACCRA (Reuters) - It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside,...
May 18, 2022
From storage to transport, hurdles to getting COVID vaccine to N.Koreans
By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - As North Korea battles its first known COVID outbreak, a lack of storage, chronic power shortages and inadequately trained medical staff pose acute challenges to in...
May 18, 2022
Marketmind: Extreme fear? Seriously?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. One might think that with CNN's popular gauge of investor sentiment stuck on 'extreme fear', it would take some seriously good news to lift up m...
May 18, 2022
U.S.-Taliban deal biggest factor in collapse of Afghan forces, watchdog says
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest factor that led to the collapse of the Afghan military in August last year was the U.S. decision to withdraw forces and contractors from Afghanista...
May 18, 2022
Sri Lanka to default on debt, no money for fuel, minister says
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds...
May 18, 2022
Ericsson to restructure operations, two executives to depart
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson on Wednesday laid out plans to restructure its operating units to focus on mobile infrastructure and business customers, and announced that two senior executives will le...
May 18, 2022
COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck
By Thomas Suen and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on ...
May 18, 2022
Situation in Northern Ireland is of grave concern - UK's Truss
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Liz Truss said on Wednesday that the situation in Northern Ireland was of grave concern, adding that the current trade arrangements weren't working and ch...
May 18, 2022
Burberry pins its outlook to China's COVID recovery
LONDON (Reuters) -British luxury brand Burberry said its outlook for the year ahead depended on how quickly China, its biggest market, recovered from COVID-19 lockdowns, after meeting expectations for...
May 18, 2022
UK inflation hits 9%, highest since 1980s
LONDON (Reuters) -British consumer price inflation hit an annual rate of 9.0% in April, the highest since official estimates began in the late 1980s, data showed on Wednesday. A Reuters poll of econom...
May 18, 2022
