Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Deepen U.S. ties by protecting British values, ex-PM May urges Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister Theresa May urged her successor Boris Johnson to protect Britain's values to help strengthen ties with the new U.S. administration, saying his threat to break ...
Jan 20, 2021
Iraq reports H5N8 bird flu outbreak on farm - OIE
PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in the city of Samaraa in the centre of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said ...
Jan 20, 2021
Sweden registers 4,702 new COVID-19 cases, 206 deaths on Wednesday
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, which has spurned a lockdown throughout the pandemic, registered 4,702 new coronavirus on Wednesday, Health Agency statistics showed. The country of 10 million inhabitant...
Jan 20, 2021
Merck KGaA stops lung cancer trial testing drug hopeful bintrafusp alfa
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA said the most important clinical trial testing its cancer drug hopeful bintrafusp alfa, which it is co-developing with GlaxoSmithKline, would be stopped beca...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump revokes ethics ban on aides as he exits Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, who won the White House in part by promising to "drain the swamp" of Washington political maneuvering, on Wednesday revoked his executive o...
Jan 20, 2021
UK PM Johnson says some fishermen have faced post-Brexit barriers
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that some fishermen had experienced problems exporting fish to the European Union, an issue he said had been compounded by a d...
Jan 20, 2021
Britain says well-placed to approve vaccines for future coronavirus variants
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's medicines regulator will be ready and able to give approval to new versions of COVID-19 vaccines designed to counter new variants of the coronavirus that may appear, Prime...
Jan 20, 2021
Britain says working to release Zaghari-Ratcliffe, other dual nationals in Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is working "virtually around the clock" to secure the release of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual nationals held in Tehran, Prime Minister...
Jan 20, 2021
Sweden operators get ready for mass 5G cover after spectrum auctions
By Supantha Mukherjee and Helena Soderpalm STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish telecom operators are planning to cover almost the entire country with 5G in the next two to three years after the spectrum auc...
Jan 20, 2021
Germany says no concrete preparations for coronavirus border checks
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is not making concrete preparations for border checks and is hoping they can be prevented, an interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Chancellor Angela M...
Jan 20, 2021
