Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Emerging to developed economies: time to step up
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Developing countries urged their richer counterparts on Tuesday to provide more debt relief to help them through the COVID crisis and guarantee equal access to a vaccine, warning ...
Oct 13, 2020
Turkish minister criticises EU 'double standards' in testy meet with Swedish minister
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister angrily dismissed European Union calls to withdraw troops from northeast Syria on Tuesday, accusing it of double standards and trying to lecture Ankara on ...
Oct 13, 2020
Facebook will ban ads discouraging people from getting vaccines
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will start banning ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it also announced a new flu vaccine ...
Oct 13, 2020
Struggling countries seek G20 debt freeze extension
By Elizabeth Howcroft and Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Beneficiaries of the G20 group of major economies' multi-billion dollar debt freeze, which aims to help poorer countries survive the coronavirus...
Oct 13, 2020
TV's 'West Wing' swaps fictional politics for the real thing
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fourteen years after television political drama "The West Wing" shut down its White House set, the show is back with its idealized version of a U.S. president ...
Oct 13, 2020
J&J to contribute up to $5 billion to potential U.S. opioid settlement
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said it will contribute up to $1 billion more to a potential settlement of lawsuits alleging it and other companies fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic, bringing t...
Oct 13, 2020
McConnell says U.S. Senate will vote on target COVID relief bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the U.S. Senate will vote on a targeted coronavirus relief bill, including new funding for the Paycheck Protection Program...
Oct 13, 2020
NIH starts clinical trial testing antibody treatments in COVID-19 patients
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Tuesday it has started a study to evaluate two antibody treatments in COVID-19 patients as part of the agency's program to identify pro...
Oct 13, 2020
U.S. Army chief returns to Pentagon after self-quarantine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army's chief of staff returned to the Pentagon on Tuesday, in a sign that the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff were starting to move towards ending their self-quarantin...
Oct 13, 2020
French MP gets ovation on first day back after COVID coma
PARIS (Reuters) - French parliamentarians gave a standing ovation on Tuesday to a lawmaker who was making his return to work after he caught COVID-19 and spent a month in a coma. The speaker of the Na...
Oct 13, 2020
