Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Irish hospitals cannot manage current COVID-19 trajectory - health chief
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's hospitals cannot manage the current trajectory of its fast-growing COVID-19 outbreak and will cancel most non-urgent procedures this week to create as mu...
Jan 04, 2021
Pinduoduo faces labour probe after employee death: newspaper
BEIJING (Reuters) - Local government officials are reviewing working conditions at Chinese e-commerce group Pinduoduo, according to a state-owned newspaper, after the death of an employee caused an ou...
Jan 04, 2021
EasyJet suspends some voting rights to meet post-Brexit rules
LONDON (Reuters) - EasyJet has begun moves to suspend the voting rights of some non-EU shareholders to comply with post-Brexit airline ownership rules, the UK airline said on Monday. European Union ru...
Jan 04, 2021
Merchant vessel enters Iranian waters after interaction - UKMTO
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) naval authority said on Monday an "interaction" between Iranian authorities and a merchant vessel in the Strait of Hormuz led the...
Jan 04, 2021
BOJ buys smallest amount of ETFs in five years, pointing to more flexibility
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan bought the smallest amount of exchange-traded funds (ETF) in five years on Monday even as shares took a hit from expectations of stricter COVID-19 control measures,...
Jan 04, 2021
UK PM Johnson says: we'll have to take tougher COVID-19 measures - Sky
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would have to take tougher measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, Sky News reported. Johnson said there were "tough, t...
Jan 04, 2021
UK judge rules WikiLeaks' Assange should not be extradited to United States
LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face charges of breaking a spying law and conspiring to hack ...
Jan 04, 2021
Trump, Biden to rally in Georgia ahead of high-stakes Senate races
By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - President Donald Trump travels to Georgia on Monday in a bid to keep the U.S. Senate in the hands of his Republican Party, after his efforts to overturn his own defeat in ...
Jan 04, 2021
Parents worry as crowded Kenyan schools reopen after coronavirus shutdown
By Thomas Mukoya NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of children formed an orderly queue that snaked through Nairobi's biggest slum Kibera on Monday, waiting to enter classrooms for the first time since Marc...
Jan 04, 2021
Germany set to extend lockdown until Jan. 31 - Bild
BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government and the 16 federal states have agreed to extend the lockdown until Jan. 31 to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Bild reported on Monday without givin...
Jan 04, 2021
