Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Tehran scrambles for hospital beds as Iran reports record new coronavirus cases
DUBAI (Reuters) - Tehran ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients go from hospital to hospital in search of available beds, a physician said on Thursday as the country recorded a daily high of 4,392 new ...
Oct 08, 2020
Germany finds three new African swine fever cases in wild boar
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Three more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the state government said on Thursday. The new discoverie...
Oct 08, 2020
Japan fishermen oppose 'catastrophic' release of Fukushima water to ocean
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese fish industry representatives on Thursday urged the government not to allow the release at sea of tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, saying it wo...
Oct 08, 2020
Bank rules force staff to turn off NHS COVID-19 tracing app at work
By Iain Withers and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Branch staff at some of Britain's biggest banks say rules that require them to store phones in lockers while at work are putting them at undue risk...
Oct 08, 2020
Mastercard backs card issuing start-up Marqeta
By Anna Irrera LONDON (Reuters) - Mastercard Inc has made a strategic investment in fintech firm Marqeta Inc and extended an existing partnership with the card issuing start-up, the companies said on ...
Oct 08, 2020
American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel literature prize
By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence uni...
Oct 08, 2020
Paytm targets a million apps on its mini app store to take on Google
By Sankalp Phartiyal and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alibaba-backed Indian fintech firm Paytm is aiming for a million apps on its "mini app store" by the first quarter of 2021, it said on Thurs...
Oct 08, 2020
Stimulus hopes lift futures ahead of weekly jobless claims data
By Sagarika Jaisinghani (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose for a second straight day on Thursday as bets of a piecemeal fiscal stimulus deal lifted sentiment ahead of data on weekly jobless cla...
Oct 08, 2020
Eli Lilly in deal to supply COVID-19 drugs to low-income countries
(Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for potential supply of its experimental antibody treatments for COVID-19 to low...
Oct 08, 2020
Thailand delays hosting of first foreign tourists since April
By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is pushing back plans to receive its first batch of foreign tourists due to administrative issues, a senior official said on Thursday, adding to unc...
Oct 08, 2020
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