Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Germany to ban travellers from Britain, Portugal amid fears of more contagious virus variants
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany is preparing entry bans for travellers from Britain, Portugal, Brazil and South Africa to limit the spread of the more contagious variants of the coronavirus raging in the...
Jan 28, 2021
SAP-owned Qualtrics valued at over $15 billion in IPO
By Joshua Franklin and Niket Nishant (Reuters) - Qualtrics International Inc was valued at over $15 billion in its initial public offering, against the backdrop of a capital market frenzy that has see...
Jan 28, 2021
Pandemic spurs quest to enroll more Black Americans in vaccine trials
By Julie Steenhuysen and Nick Brown (Reuters) - Infectious disease doctor Angela Branche needed help. Branche and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York were running a cl...
Jan 28, 2021
American Airlines posts record annual loss on pandemic pain
(Reuters) - American Airlines Group Inc reported an $8.9 billion annual loss on Thursday, its biggest on record, as travel restrictions and lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the aviation ...
Jan 28, 2021
Exclusive: Pharma distributors in talks with U.S. for cut of COVID-19 vaccine shipping deal - sources
By Carl O'Donnell and Richa Naidu (Reuters) - U.S. pharmaceutical distributors are talking to federal officials about increasing the number of companies shipping coronavirus vaccines as part of the Bi...
Jan 28, 2021
German cartel office extends probe of ties between Facebook and Oculus
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's antitrust regulator said on Thursday it was extending the scope of its abuse proceedings against Facebook related to the links between its Oculus virtual reality products ...
Jan 28, 2021
Italy's Renzi to meet president in bid for way out of government crisis
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Former premier Matteo Renzi, a central figure in an Italian government crisis, will meet the head of state on Thursday and tell him whether he is ready to support a n...
Jan 28, 2021
Analysis: Missing rail link, underused port: EU's uphill battle to spend recovery billions
By Gabriela Baczynska and Gavin Jones BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In 2016, the agency set up to ensure European Union funds are spent properly complained that the southern Italian port of Taranto was "heavil...
Jan 28, 2021
'Like students getting recess': relief for WHO Wuhan team leaving quarantine
By Nikolaj Skydsgaard (Reuters) - Members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 described long workdays during two weeks of quarantine, and relief at finally bein...
Jan 28, 2021
Kremlin critic Navalny says he has been denied proper access to lawyer
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny told a judge on Thursday that he had not been allowed to speak to his defence lawyer one-to-one since being detained on arrival back in Russia o...
Jan 28, 2021
