Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Alpine skiing: Crawford shock leader of men's combined after Super-G
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Canadian James Crawford stunned the field when he took pole position in the men's combined event at the world alpine skiing championships as he clinched the super-...
Feb 15, 2021
Exclusive: EU antitrust regulators to okay Siemens Healthineers' $16.4 billion Varian buy - sources
BRUSSELS/MUNICH (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to grant conditional clearance to German health group Siemens Healthineers' $16.4-billion bid for U.S. peer Varian Medical Systems Inc, thre...
Feb 15, 2021
France calls to step up EU independence on electronic components
PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called on Monday for a new plan on electronic components to reduce European dependence on Asian suppliers in the domain this year. Le Maire tol...
Feb 15, 2021
Guinea tracks potential Ebola contacts, says can overcome new outbreak
By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea is tracking down people who potentially came in contact with Ebola patients and will rush out vaccines to the area as soon as it can get them, after three peo...
Feb 15, 2021
Erdogan says U.S. supports militants who executed Turkish forces in Iraq
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States on Monday of supporting Kurdish militants who Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding that a U.S....
Feb 15, 2021
Yemen's Houthis say they have struck Saudi's Jeddah, Abha airports with drones
DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said on Monday it had struck Saudi Arabia's Abha and Jeddah airports with drones. In a statement on Twitter, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea s...
Feb 15, 2021
Exclusive: India shortlists four banks for potential privatisation - sources
By Manoj Kumar, Aftab Ahmed and Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's government has shortlisted four mid-sized state-run banks for privatisation, under a new push to sell state assets and s...
Feb 15, 2021
U.N. decries attacks on Afghan media at time when dialogue needed most
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday denounced attacks on Afghan journalists and human rights activists at a time when dialogue was needed more than ever amid talks to ...
Feb 15, 2021
Pan-European consortium seeks big pharma partner for COVID-19 shot
By Caroline Copley BERLIN (Reuters) - A pan-European consortium developing a COVID-19 vaccine is in talks with big pharma to support the late-stage development of its shot and ramp up manufacturing, t...
Feb 15, 2021
Israel cancels participation in UAE defence expo, citing air travel curbs
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has cancelled its planned participation in a major defence expo in the United Arab Emirates next week due to COVID-19 curbs on air travel, Israeli officials said on Monday...
Feb 15, 2021
