Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Tanzania leader launches COVID-19 vaccination drive, orders more jabs
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan received her COVID-19 vaccine in public on Wednesday, in the most decisive signal yet of a break from the policies of her late predecessor ...
Jul 28, 2021
GSK sees smaller 2021 profit fall after Q2 beat
(Reuters) -GSK forecast a smaller drop in 2021 profit on Wednesday as the drugmaker beat second-quarter earnings expectations, buoyed by a pick up at its vaccines business as routine hospital visits r...
Jul 28, 2021
Norway again postpones end to COVID lockdown
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway postponed for a second time on Wednesday a planned final step in the reopening of its economy from pandemic lockdown, due to the continued spread of the Delta variant of COVID-...
Jul 28, 2021
U.S. mortgage applications rise in latest week as rates decline
By Evan Sully (Reuters) - The number of applications for U.S. home mortgages increased last week, driven by an uptick in refinancing activity and a decline in purchase activity as mortgage rates fell....
Jul 28, 2021
Could display drones snuff out the firework?
FROME, England (Reuters) - Concerns about pollution and the environment could see drone displays - such as the one featured in the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony - replace fireworks as the light show...
Jul 28, 2021
Coal country cleanup: Biden plan sketches out possible future for former miners
By Dane Rhys and Timothy Gardner CLINCHCO, Virginia (Reuters) - Cosam Mullins mined coal in the western hills of Virginia for much of his working life. Now, with mining jobs hard to find, he's cleanin...
Jul 28, 2021
Olympics-Six days into the Tokyo Games, athletes are returning home
By Ilze Filks TOKYO (Reuters) - It has only been six days since the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games but already athletes are starting their return trips as strict COVID-19 measures in Japan forbid ...
Jul 28, 2021
Mexican methane leak rate 'alarming' for climate change, report says
By Stefanie Eschenbacher MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's methane leak rate from oil and gas operations is twice as high as that of the world's top oil producer, the United States, a group of research...
Jul 28, 2021
General Dynamics profit beats on higher sales in combat, tech units
(Corrects paragraph 1 to say "profit", not "revenue") (Reuters) -General Dynamics Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday as the defense contractor benefited from higher sale...
Jul 28, 2021
Canada's Shopify beats quarterly revenue expectations on online shopping boom
(Reuters) -Canada's e-commerce giant Shopify Inc beat second-quarter revenue expectations on Wednesday, on the back of a resilient online shopping trend precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shopify'...
Jul 28, 2021
