Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Finland declares state of emergency as COVID-19 cases rise
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish government declared a state of emergency on Monday due to rising COVID-19 infections, a step that would allow the Nordic country to shutter restaurants and to impose o...
Mar 01, 2021
China's Tencent Cloud to open datacentre in Bahrain
DUBAI (Reuters) - Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings, will launch an internet data centre in Bahrain by the end of 2021, Bahrain said on Monday. The me...
Mar 01, 2021
Montreal's Olympic Stadium opens to vaccinating elderly as Canada plays catch-up
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp-up in Canada, one of the country's largest stadiums is preparing to receive thousands of elderly, while provinces enlist dentists,...
Mar 01, 2021
Israeli Supreme Court bans unlimited COVID-19 mobile phone tracking
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court on Monday banned the government from sweeping use of mobile phone tracking of coronavirus carriers, calling the measure a grave infraction...
Mar 01, 2021
McKesson begins distribution of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. drug distributor McKesson Corp said on Monday it had begun distribution of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine became the third authorized COVID-19 vaccine in the United...
Mar 01, 2021
Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war's end
SANAA (Reuters) - Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything including his wife's gold to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen's capital Sanaa, widow Mona...
Mar 01, 2021
Futures jump on J&J vaccine cheer, stimulus optimism
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures jumped more than 1% on Monday as Johnson & Johnson's newly approved COVID-19 vaccine and progress in a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package ...
Mar 01, 2021
France steps up economic stimulus rollout with more cash for industry
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is accelerating the rollout of its economic stimulus plan by ploughing an extra billion euros into support for the industrial sector, Finance Minister Bruno Le ...
Mar 01, 2021
WTO to hold ministerial meeting in Geneva in late 2021: sources
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization members agreed on Monday to hold the next major ministerial meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in late 2021, delegates told Reuters. The biennial conference was...
Mar 01, 2021
One year into pandemic, sky begins to clear over U.S. economy
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite the U.S. economy's near miss with a depression last year and an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has brought travel to ...
Mar 01, 2021
