Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Serbia begins COVID-19 vaccination drive, with PM first in line
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ana Brnabic received Serbia's first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Thursday, kicking off a mass inoculation drive with doses developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Some 4,875 ...
Dec 24, 2020
Pandemic prompts Wall Street to look south for Florida's life and work benefits
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - A bevy of Wall Street executives, bankers and fund managers are abandoning New York for Florida, embracing the Sunshine State over metropolitan New York as th...
Dec 24, 2020
Democrats want rushed vote on Trump's $2,000 coronavirus aid checks
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday aim to win quick passage of legislation providing $2,000 in direct payments to Americans as part of a...
Dec 24, 2020
Laptops, desktop sales see 'renaissance;' shortages won't ease until 2022
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007, and manufacturers still are months away fr...
Dec 24, 2020
'What's the alternative?' SolarWinds boosts security firms' bottom lines
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Cybersecurity providers including FireEye Inc and Microsoft Corp could not prevent a huge network breach disclosed this month by numerous U.S. agencies and c...
Dec 24, 2020
U.S. states enlist medical, nursing students to give out COVID-19 vaccine
By Tina Bellon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. states, facing a backlog in administering coronavirus vaccines, are asking medical and nursing students, and even firefighters, to help give ...
Dec 24, 2020
Israel imposing third national COVID-19 lockdown
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will impose a third national lockdown to fight climbing COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The curbs will come into effect on Sunday e...
Dec 24, 2020
Exclusive-Bangladesh, India finalising first bilateral rice deal in 3 years - sources
By Ruma Paul and Rajendra Jadhav DHAKA/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bangladesh is finalising a purchase of 150,000 tonnes of rice from India's NAFED, the New Delhi-based state agency told Reuters, in what would...
Dec 24, 2020
French medical regulator approves COVID-19 vaccine
PARIS (Reuters) -French medical regulator HAS said on Thursday it had approved the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for France's vaccination rollout, after the European Medicines Agency gave i...
Dec 24, 2020
At least 20 die as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
TUNIS (Reuters) - At least 20 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security of...
Dec 24, 2020
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