Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Explosion reported at CSX facility in Baltimore; no injuries reported -Baltimore Sun
(Reuters) - Emergency officials were responding to an explosion at a CSX train facility in Baltimore on Thursday, the Baltimore Sun reported, adding that no injuries had been reported. (Reporting by T...
Dec 30, 2021
Greece reports new daily record of COVID-19 cases as Omicron dominates
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece reported a single-day record high of 35,580 COVID-19 infections on Thursday as the highly contagious Omicron becomes the dominant variant in the country. It was the third suc...
Dec 30, 2021
Lira on four-day skid as Ankara struggles to hold confidence
By Ezgi Erkoyun and Nevzat Devranoglu ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish lira fell as much as 6% on Thursday, extending a four-day slide after last week's big gains, as the government struggled to convi...
Dec 30, 2021
U.S. FDA expected to approve boosters of Pfizer's vaccine for 12-15 year-olds Monday - NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday is planning to authorize booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, the New York Times reported, citing...
Dec 30, 2021
COVID patients in English hospital beds up nearly 10% overnight
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of patients with COVID-19 occupying beds in English hospitals rose to 11,452, official data from NHS England showed on Thursday, up by 990 from a day earlier. The number ...
Dec 30, 2021
Teva fueled opioid addiction in New York, jury finds
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled opioid addiction in New York state, a jury found on Thursday, a setback for a company still facing thousands of other ...
Dec 30, 2021
Soccer-Inter head into 2022 as dominant force after year to remember
By Alasdair Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Inter Milan remain the team to beat in Italy heading into 2022 after a year in which they reclaimed the Serie A title and maintained their momentum under new man...
Dec 30, 2021
Top Israeli health official approves second COVID-19 vaccine booster for immunocompromised
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top health official announced on Thursday that he has approved a second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people with weakened immune systems but a final decision on wid...
Dec 30, 2021
Russia extends production of COVID-19 drug remdesivir without patent for a year
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government extended on Thursday its approval for drugmaker Pharmasyntez to produce a generic version of U.S. anti-COVID-19 drug remdesivir without a patent for one year,...
Dec 30, 2021
Turkey's COVID-19 cases surge to near 40,000, at April levels
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 39,681 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest number of daily infections since April 28, as Health Minister Fahrettin Koca warned about the growing prevalence...
Dec 30, 2021
