Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Diana Taurasi signs multi-year deal with Mercury
Former WNBA Most Valuable Player Diana Taurasi is returning to the Phoenix Mercury on a multi-year contract, the team announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed for Taurasi, who is the WNB...
Feb 01, 2021
Fed's Kaplan: to return to normal, need aggressive fiscal and Fed action
(Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan on Monday said the U.S. economy still needs help from both the central bank and from Congress to get the economy back to a more healthy ...
Feb 01, 2021
Turkey's Erdogan says may begin working on new constitution
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday his ruling AK Party and its nationalist allies may start work on drafting a new constitution, less than four years after overhauling ...
Feb 01, 2021
France: Number of people in ICU units for COVID at a peak since December 6
PARIS (Reuters) - French health authorities reported 4,347 new coronavirus infections over the previous 24 hours on Monday, down from Sunday's 19,325 and slightly higher than last Monday's 4,240, figu...
Feb 01, 2021
South Africa to get 2 million vaccine doses from COVAX by March: Ramaphosa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will get 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX vaccine distribution scheme co-led by the World Health Organization and an African Union (AU) arrange...
Feb 01, 2021
U.S. new COVID cases fall for third straight week, hospitalizations down
(Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 in the United States fell for a third week in a row, the first time the country has seen such an extended decline since last September, though more than a million peo...
Feb 01, 2021
Myanmar coup to dampen U.S. trade, impact footwear companies, experts warn
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The coup in Myanmar is expected to further dampen the already tepid interest of U.S. and Western companies in investing in Myanmar, and may prompt some big U.S....
Feb 01, 2021
Irish COVID-19 cases may be plateauing at high level: health chiefs
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish public health chiefs are concerned the incidence of COVID-19 may be plateauing at levels as high as the peak of the previous wave in October, the country's COVID-19 modelling ...
Feb 01, 2021
UK to seek 'diplomatic levers' to restore democracy in Myanmar
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it would pursue diplomatic steps with its allies to ensure a return to democracy in Myanmar, after a military coup led to the arrest of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi...
Feb 01, 2021
Australia's Ellume gets $230 million from U.S. to make more rapid COVID-19 tests
By Carl O'Donnell and Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) - The U.S. government has awarded $231.8 million to Australian diagnostic test maker Ellume to expand the production of a rapid COVID-19 test that ca...
Feb 01, 2021
