Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fintech startup Feedzai valued at $1 billion in KKR-led funding round
By Anna Irrera LONDON (Reuters) - Financial technology group Feedzai said on Wednesday it had raised $200 million in a round led by investment company KKR valuing the startup at more than $1 billion. ...
Mar 24, 2021
Same efficiency of AstraZeneca and Pfizer shots in severe COVID cases: French infectiologist
PARIS (Reuters) - The Pfizer and the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots have the same efficiency in severe cases of the disease, French infectiologist Odile Launay told RTL radio on Wednesday. (Reporting by B...
Mar 24, 2021
Italy's RCS signs deal with Google for access to dailies on Showcase
MILAN (Reuters) - RCS Mediagroup has sealed a multi-year deal with Google to offer access to some of its dailies on the U.S. tech giant's Showcase news platform, Corriere della Sera newspaper, owned b...
Mar 24, 2021
Exclusive: South Korea suspends efforts to get domestic bonds into WGBI - source
By Seunggyu Lim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has suspended efforts to have its domestic debt added to the World Government Bond Index (WGBI), one of the world's three major bond indexes, a person wit...
Mar 24, 2021
Uzbekistan to start mass coronavirus vaccination from April 1
TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan will start the first stage of mass vaccination against coronavirus with the AstraZeneca vaccine from April 1, an Uzbek Health official said on Wednesday. Elderly and di...
Mar 24, 2021
Armenia's parliament votes to lift martial law: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's parliament voted on Wednesday to lift martial law, the RIA news agency reported, ahead of an early parliamentary election planned in June. Armenia brought in martial law i...
Mar 24, 2021
UAE finance minister and Dubai deputy ruler, Sheikh Hamdan, dies
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finance minister and the deputy ruler of the emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has died, Dubai's ruler said on Twitter on Wednesday. She...
Mar 24, 2021
Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by deadly fire
By Ruma Paul COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Aid workers searched on Wednesday to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world's biggest refugee settlement i...
Mar 24, 2021
Ukraine reports record high coronavirus deaths for second day in a row
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record daily high of 342 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Wednesday. The previous high of 333 deaths was...
Mar 24, 2021
Bulgaria reports record-high 4,851 daily COVID-19 cases
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria reported 4,851 new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, its highest daily tally on record, government health data showed on Wednesday. In total, the Balkan country o...
Mar 24, 2021
