Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sierra Leone doctors threaten to expand strike amid COVID-19 crisis
By Cooper Inveen FREETOWN (Reuters) - Doctors in Sierra Leone, who are refusing to treat COVID-19 patients to press demands for bonus payments and more protective equipment, threatened on Tuesday to s...
Jul 07, 2020
Argentina formalizes debt offer with SEC; all eyes on BlackRock and co
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina has formalized its $65 billion debt restructuring offer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and all eyes have turned to one key bloc of creditors, inclu...
Jul 07, 2020
Virus crisis exposes tensions over tighter controls for investment funds
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's market watchdog is resisting calls for stricter rules on investment funds, putting the regulator at odds with the Bank of England which wants tighter controls...
Jul 07, 2020
Ericsson says not sourcing products from China's Panda Electronics
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson is not sourcing products from Panda Electronics Group, one of the companies named by the United States as potentially controlled by the Chinese military, the Swedish tel...
Jul 07, 2020
EU executive expresses concern over Hungary's media freedom
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A senior European Commission official has expressed concern for the independence of Index.hu, one of Hungary's last major independent news websites and a leading critic of Prime M...
Jul 07, 2020
Bus plunges into reservoir in China, 21 dead
BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus carrying students to an exam plunged into a reservoir in China on Tuesday after making a sudden swerve across five other lanes of traffic, leaving 21 dead and 16 injured, a v...
Jul 07, 2020
GSK to work on potential COVID-19 shot with Canada's Medicago
(Reuters) - Britain's GSK said on Tuesday it will develop and test a potential COVID-19 vaccine using its booster technology and Canadian biopharmaceutical firm Medicago's coronavirus-like particles. ...
Jul 07, 2020
German state of Saxony to allow events with more than 1,000 people from Sept: Bild
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's eastern state of Saxony plans to allow large-scale events with more than 1,000 visitors from Sept. 1, Bild newspaper cited the state's health minister as saying on Tuesday...
Jul 07, 2020
United Airlines warns of booking declines due to new travel restrictions: WSJ
(Reuters) - United Airlines has warned of booking declines and potential furloughs due to new travel restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing an internal presentation to the c...
Jul 07, 2020
Russia opens criminal case against activist for failing to declare dual nationality
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators on Tuesday opened a criminal case against Pyotr Verzilov, an anti-Kremlin activist and associate of the Pussy Riot punk group, for having allegedly failed to d...
Jul 07, 2020
