Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: HSBC aims to double number of senior Black staff by 2025 - memo
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC aims to double the number of Black staff in senior roles by 2025, Chief Executive Noel Quinn said in an internal memo, as the bank attempts to take action against discriminatio...
Jul 27, 2020
Retired German policeman investigated over far-right threats
BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Monday they were investigating a retired police officer suspected of sending threatening emails, signed with the name of a gang of neo-Nazi killers, to pr...
Jul 27, 2020
Republicans, White House seek $400 cut to weekly unemployment aid: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans and the White House plan to seek a reduction in emergency federal weekly unemployment benefits from $600 to $200 until states can handle a more complicat...
Jul 27, 2020
Senate panel to hold hearing into Google's dominance of online advertising
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel will hold a hearing in September to discuss Google's dominance in online advertising, Republican Senator Mike Lee said in a rele...
Jul 27, 2020
Enrollment in Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine trial to complete by end of summer: Fauci
(Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Monday enrollment in Moderna Inc's late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial is expected to be finished by the end of summer this y...
Jul 27, 2020
MLB postpones games in Miami, Philadelphia due to COVID-19
(Reuters) - Major League Baseball's coronavirus-delayed season hit a snag less than a week after it began as it postponed games scheduled for Monday in Miami and Philadelphia due to COVID-19 related c...
Jul 27, 2020
Exclusive: EU talks with Pfizer, Sanofi, J&J on COVID vaccines hit snags - sources
By Francesco Guarascio and Elvira Pollina BRUSSELS/MILAN (Reuters) - European efforts to secure potential COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson are mired in wrangles over price, ...
Jul 27, 2020
Big Oil braces for second-quarter losses after virus whips up perfect storm
LONDON (Reuters) - Top U.S. and European oil and gas companies are forecast to swing into a second quarter loss after coronavirus lockdowns destroyed fuel demand, hit prices and squeezed margins, anal...
Jul 27, 2020
U.N. moves last grain from frontline store symbolic of Yemen's aid struggle
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.N. grain store that symbolised aid agencies' struggle to navigate the front lines of Yemen's war has finally been emptied and distributed to a starving populat...
Jul 27, 2020
ECOWAS proposes 4-point plan to resolve Mali crisis
DAKAR (Reuters) - West Africa's regional body ECOWAS on Monday proposed a four-point plan to resolve Mali's political crisis that include re-doing some contested local elections, and establishing a go...
Jul 27, 2020
