Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Peru expects 'significant batch' of vaccines to arrive via COVAX in early 2021
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru is set to receive "a significant batch" of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX alliance during the first quarter of 2021, interim president Francisco Sagasti said on Wednesday, help...
Dec 23, 2020
Visa maintains card usage suspension on Pornhub
(Reuters) - Visa Inc said on Wednesday that usage of its cards on MindGeek's platforms with user-generated content such as Pornhub will remain suspended until pending investigations are complete. The ...
Dec 23, 2020
France reports 14,929 new COVID cases, 276 more deaths in past 24 hours
PARIS (Reuters) - France registered 14,929 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 276 more deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours, according to French health ministry data published on Wednesday. France...
Dec 23, 2020
Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine over 50% effective in Brazil tests, reports newspaper Folha
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Sinovac Biotech's vaccine against COVID-19 is over 50% effective in late-stage trials, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Wednesday, adding that the Chinese company had asked...
Dec 23, 2020
IBM will pay $24.25 million to resolve FCC probes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IBM Corp has agreed to pay $24.25 million to resolve a pair of investigations by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)over subsidies awarded to connect schools and librari...
Dec 23, 2020
U.S. gives investors until 2022 to divest from sanctioned Russian co GAZ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday granted investors another year to divest from Russian automaker GAZ PAO, a company linked to sanctioned Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska. The U.S. Tr...
Dec 23, 2020
U.S. extends protection for Citgo from PDVSA creditors through July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday extended a measure barring transactions related to Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela's 2020 bond until July 2021, ami...
Dec 23, 2020
New COVID-19 variant present in Ireland - preliminary data
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish health chiefs believe a new variant of the coronavirus found in neighbouring Britain is present in Ireland, but not solely responsible for a rapid spread in the disease. The l...
Dec 23, 2020
Corporate activists return 'full steam,' eye 2021, after pandemic muted activity
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investors have ramped up demands for operational fixes, refreshed boards and sales of lackluster businesses in the last few months of 2020, a rush th...
Dec 23, 2020
Head of election monitoring group gunned down in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) - A prominent advocate of democracy in Afghanistan who headed an election monitoring organisation was gunned down on Wednesday in a Kabul neighbourhood, drawing widespread condemnation...
Dec 23, 2020
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