Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK shopper numbers edge higher as end of restrictions nears
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people heading out to shops across Britain rose by 0.5% in the week to March 20 from a week earlier, the eighth rise in nine weeks despite a national lockdown, market ...
Mar 22, 2021
Russia says unnamed U.S. firm violated patent rights on Sputnik V vaccine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund said on Monday a U.S. firm had violated Russian patent rights on its Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. RDIF, which actively markets Sputnik V a...
Mar 22, 2021
Fed's Powell: Would pursue digital currency only with Congressional support
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve would not proceed with a central bank digital currency without Congressional approval, and current research on the topic is focused on the risks and benefits...
Mar 22, 2021
Russian scientists says EpiVacCorona effective against variants
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists behind the country's second vaccine against COVID-19, EpiVacCorona, said on Monday the shot was effective against variants of the coronavirus. Russia began mass t...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of...
Mar 22, 2021
Egypt aims for deal to produce Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian government hopes to sign an agreement with China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd before the end of March to manufacture its coronavirus vaccine in Egypt, Health Minister Hala Zaye...
Mar 22, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh reinstating Boston marathon bomber's death sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the U.S. Justice Department's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry ou...
Mar 22, 2021
AstraZeneca expects EU drug regulator to approve Dutch vaccine factory late by early April: executive
LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca expects the EU drug regulator to give approval for a factory in the Netherlands that is helping make its COVID-19 vaccine later this month or in early April, a senior ex...
Mar 22, 2021
La Liga talking points
(Reuters) - Talking points from the weekend in Spanish football. A TALE OF TWO GOALKEEPERS Sevilla's Bono became the first goalkeeper to score in open play in La Liga for over a decade when he snatche...
Mar 22, 2021
Credit Suisse hit with extra EU antitrust charges in forex probe
By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse has been hit with additional EU antitrust charges, three years after EU enforcers charged the Swiss bank with rigging foreign exchange rates in an a...
Mar 22, 2021
