Author Archives: Syndicated Content
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
Europeans push IAEA Iran resolution despite warnings by Russia, Tehran
VIENNA (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany are pressing ahead with a U.S.-backed plan for a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board criticising Iran for curbing cooperation with the agency...
Mar 01, 2021
Bitcoin rises 6% as risk assets rally; Citi says at a "tipping point"
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin rose nearly 6% on Monday as risk assets rallied after last week's bond rout cooled, and Citi said the most popular cryptocurrency was at a "tipping point" and could become t...
Mar 01, 2021
Amid scramble for COVID-19 vaccine, Latin America turns to Russia
By DANIEL RAMOS, Aislinn Laing and Cassandra Garrison LA PAZ (Reuters) - As Bolivia struggled late last year to secure deals with large drug firms to supply COVID-19 vaccines, the incoming president, ...
Mar 01, 2021
