Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turkey to impose five-day lockdown as virus deaths hit new record
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey will impose a five-day full lockdown beginning on December 31 to maintain gains against the pandemic, as official data showed new dail...
Dec 14, 2020
Explosives-laden boat hits fuel ship at Saudi port, ministry says
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a fuel transport ship anchored at a Jeddah terminal was hit by an explosive-laden boat in what it called a terrorist attack, after shipping firm ...
Dec 14, 2020
Explainer: Blocking EU-UK trade deal - the level playing field
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union are at odds over safeguarding corporate fair play after seven months of negotiations that have yet to yield a deal for tariff-...
Dec 14, 2020
Airbus to hold A320 jet output rate into early 2021 - CEO
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus will hold production of A320-family jets at 40 a month going into 2021, chief executive Guillaume Faury said on Monday. Speaking at the Conference of Montreal by video, he did...
Dec 14, 2020
France's new COVID-19 cases slow down but hospitalisations up again
PARIS (Reuters) - French health authorities on Monday reported 3,063 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, sharply down from Sunday's 11,533, but the number of people hospitalised for the di...
Dec 14, 2020
Israel begins second-phase trial of potential COVID-19 vaccine
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it was beginning a second-phase trial with 1,000 people for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate which, if successful, could be ready for the general public by th...
Dec 14, 2020
Czech government orders tightening of coronavirus restrictions from Friday
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government will tighten restrictions on businesses and public gatherings from Friday in response to a rise in COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Mond...
Dec 14, 2020
German auditors supervisory boss leaves over Wirecard share deals
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Federal Office of Economics and Export Control Bafa said on Monday that the head of the agency that regulates auditors in Germany had been relieved of his duties over p...
Dec 14, 2020
Harden still wants out of Houston
The Houston Rockets tried to convince James Harden to stay by importing John Wall from the Washington Wizards. Unfortunately for the Rockets, the maneuver doesn't seem to have worked. Harden, the thre...
Dec 14, 2020
Exclusive-France taps public bodies to bolster cash pile amid pandemic, Brexit
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - France has ordered a dozen public and private bodies to keep their deposits at the Treasury, government documents show, as it quietly builds up safeguards to reinforc...
Dec 14, 2020
