Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Flutterwave teams up with PayPal on African payments
By Alexis Akwagyiram and Chijioke Ohuocha LAGOS (Reuters) - Fintech company Flutterwave has teamed up with U.S. payments giant PayPal to enable PayPal customers pay African merchants through its platf...
Mar 16, 2021
Kremlin says pressure on countries to reject Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is unprecedented
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that pressure on some countries to refuse to buy Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 was at unprecedented levels, but that said such efforts had ...
Mar 16, 2021
Foxconn says may make EVs in Wisconsin or Mexico
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The chairman of top Apple Inc supplier Foxconn said on Tuesday that its plant in the U.S. state of Wisconsin was a potential site to make electric vehicles, but added that Mexico wa...
Mar 16, 2021
Fed officials may talk technical rate move but delay acting for now
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - A spate of volatility in money markets has stoked speculation the Federal Reserve may be forced into a technical adjustment to the levers controlling its benchmark intere...
Mar 16, 2021
Party's over for behind-the-scenes workers in Hollywood awards season
By Rollo Ross and Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year ago, photographer Alberto Rodriguez would have been jostling for position on a celebrity red carpet during Hollywood's hectic awards seas...
Mar 16, 2021
Cannabis entrepreneurs, celebrity investors light up as legalization blooms
By Paul Lienert and Jane Lanhee Lee DETROIT/OAKLAND, Calf. (Reuters) - Driven by a surge in cannabis use during the COVID-19 pandemic, industry entrepreneurs and investors are gearing up for even grea...
Mar 16, 2021
New Delhi is world's most polluted capital for third straight year - IQAir study
By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) - New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the...
Mar 16, 2021
EU Commission says Pfizer/BioNTech to deliver a total of over 200 million vaccine doses in second-quarter
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union will receive a total of over 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by BioNTech and Pfizer in the second quarter, the European Commission said on Tues...
Mar 16, 2021
'A blessing from God': Iraqi truffle hunters unearth desert harvest
By Ahmed Saeed and Alaa al-Marjani SAMAWA DESERT, Iraq (Reuters) - "Here it is, the truffle, a blessing from God!" Zahra Buheir carefully digs out a desert truffle from the sandy earth and shows it of...
Mar 16, 2021
China's Yunnan vows ecological 'security barrier' to limit disease risks
By David Stanway JINGHONG, China (Reuters) - In the border district of Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan province, the global pandemic has put residents of the small ethnic minority village of...
Mar 16, 2021
