Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Truck landed on train track minute before deadly Taiwan crash
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The truck which collided with a Taiwanese express train last week killing 50 people slid onto the tracks only around one minute before the accident happened, the government said on ...
Apr 06, 2021
Traffic slows in Suez Canal as tanker faces difficulties
ISMAILIA (Egypt) (Reuters) - Marine traffic slowed in the Suez Canal on Tuesday as oil tanker M/T Rumford appeared to face difficulties in the south of the canal, shipping websites MarineTraffic and T...
Apr 06, 2021
Russian court fines TikTok over failure to delete content: reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court has fined social media app TikTok 2.6 million roubles ($34,000) over failure to delete content that the court said was related unsanctioned rallies, Russian news agen...
Apr 06, 2021
Germany's Scholz greets U.S. move to work on global corporate minimum tax rate
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz welcomed on Tuesday a pledge by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to work on a global corporate minimum tax rate, adding that a deal among mor...
Apr 06, 2021
Catalent to nearly double U.S. production of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine: WSJ
(Reuters) - Contract manufacturer Catalent Inc has signed an agreement that will nearly double the U.S. production of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citin...
Apr 06, 2021
India court dismisses ByteDance's plea to unblock bank accounts
By Abhirup Roy MUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Tuesday dealt a blow to China's ByteDance by dismissing its plea to unblock its bank accounts which have been frozen by federal authorities investi...
Apr 06, 2021
UAE's first nuclear power plant begins commercial operations
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' first nuclear power plant started commercial operations on Tuesday, the Gulf Arab state's leaders announced on Twitter. The Barakah nuclear power plant in t...
Apr 06, 2021
Ukraine says NATO path is only way to end war in eastern region
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that a path towards membership of NATO was the only way to end war in the eastern Donbass region after speaking to the transatl...
Apr 06, 2021
'Much, much worse': India's richest state swamped by pandemic's second wave
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - Hospitals in Maharashtra are running short of beds, piped oxygen and a key anti-viral drug as a second wave of coronavirus infections has ...
Apr 06, 2021
Patchy corporate climate disclosure prompts G20 watchdog to act
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - G20 companies will face common disclosure requirements on climate change risks under plans by the Financial Stability Board, which coordinates financial rules for the g...
Apr 06, 2021
