Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Generic drugmakers to sell Pfizer's Paxlovid for $25 or less in low-income countries
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several generic drugmakers that will produce versions of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid have agreed to sell the medicine in low- and middle-income...
May 12, 2022
Finnish utility Fortum to quit Russia
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Finland's Fortum will exit Russia and is looking for a buyer for its assets there, the utility said on Thursday, as the country flagged an application to join NATO in a move that...
May 12, 2022
U.S. groups urge social media companies to fight 'Big Lie," election disinformation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social media companies including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok must act now to blunt the effect of false information - including Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that his 2020 d...
May 12, 2022
BP shareholders back company's climate strategy
LONDON (Reuters) - BP shareholders on Thursday backed the company's climate strategy, while fewer investors than last year supported a second resolution filed by an activist group urging faster action...
May 12, 2022
Nornickel is first Russian firm to get OK to keep listing abroad
(Reuters) - Metals giant Nornickel has become the first Russian company to be granted permission by a government commission to keep its listing abroad - for one year for now. Nornickel, the world's la...
May 12, 2022
Factbox-Companies count the cost of ditching Russia
(Reuters) - Multinationals that announced their exit from Russia, or suspension of activities there, after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, have started to report associated losses. These are ...
May 12, 2022
Russia needs de-Nazification, says Pussy Riot leader after escape
BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia, not Ukraine, needs de-Nazification, the leader of anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot, who left Russia this week by disguising herself as a food courier, said before her group...
May 12, 2022
La Niña conditions to prevail through summer- U.S. forecaster
(Reuters) -There is a 58% chance of La Nia conditions prevailing through the Northern Hemisphere summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. Below-average sea surface temperatures p...
May 12, 2022
Swiss release some frozen Russian assets
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government on Thursday reported 6.3 billion Swiss francs ($6.33 billion) worth of Russian assets frozen under sanctions to p...
May 12, 2022
Moscow lawyers target more cases against Western firms that leave Russia
(Reuters) - A Moscow law firm that has filed cases against Apple and Netflix over what it says are consumer rights violations is aiming to "punish" other Western companies that have quit Russia, its s...
May 12, 2022
