Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Violence create food crisis in northern Mozambique: WFP
GENEVA (Reuters) - Militant attacks that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province have created a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. Wor...
Jan 19, 2021
Halliburton profit up 60% on cost cuts, demand recovery
(Reuters) - Halliburton Co on Tuesday reported a 60% rise in fourth-quarter adjusted profit compared with the third, as demand for oilfield equipment and services recovered slightly from the pandemic-...
Jan 19, 2021
Olympic champion Rahimov charged in weightlifting doping case
(Reuters) - Kazakhstan weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, a gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has been charged with a doping offence for swapping urine samples, the International Testing Agency (...
Jan 19, 2021
Denmark's COVID-19 reproduction rate falls to 0.6
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's reproduction rate, indicating how many people one person infected with COVID-19 on average transmits the virus to, has fallen to 0.6 from about 1.0 a month ago, Health...
Jan 19, 2021
COVID-19 forces delay of no-confidence vote in Slovenia government
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Slovenia's leftist opposition decided on Tuesday to drop temporarily a no-confidence motion against the centre-right government as some deputies would not be able to participate in ...
Jan 19, 2021
Sputnik-AstraZeneca vaccine trials to start in February, says R-Pharm
By Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - Human trials of a coronavirus vaccine combining Russia's Sputnik V shot with that developed by Britain's AstraZeneca and Oxford University are expected to start...
Jan 19, 2021
Philippines to buy 20 million Moderna vaccine doses as COVID-19 cases rise
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will buy 20 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, adding to deals for a total of 72 million doses from Ast...
Jan 19, 2021
Explainer: Trump's legacy - Big policy changes that often got lost amid the din and scandal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump may be best remembered for his use of Twitter as a bully pulpit to stoke controversy or browbeat opponents, but the noise his tweets generated often distr...
Jan 19, 2021
In wake of U.S. Capitol attack, some law firms decline to halt political contributions
By Caroline Spiezio (Reuters) - While major corporations and some law firms stopped contributions to lawmakers after the deadly Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, few of the legal industries' most powe...
Jan 19, 2021
Biden's top diplomat, Blinken, vows to revitalize alliances, U.S. leadership
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden's incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is set to pledge on Tuesday that he will work to revitalize damaged American diplomacy ...
Jan 19, 2021
