Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: Pakistan's deficit and poverty rate to soar due to coronavirus
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's fiscal deficit will be significantly worse than projected this fiscal year, with the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic pushing millions into ...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
France says will tap EU unemployment reinsurance scheme
PARIS (Reuters) - France, which has budgeted 110 billion euros to keeps its economy afloat and workers in jobs, said on Thursday it would use the European Union's new unemployment reinsurance scheme, ...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
Nvidia launches chip aimed at data center economics
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Semiconductor firm Nvidia Corp on Thursday announced a new chip that can be digitally split up to run several different programs on one physical chip, a first for the com...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
Trump envoy accuses Germany of undermining NATO's nuclear deterrent
BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador in Berlin has accused Germany of undermining NATO's nuclear deterrent, taking aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners after some of their lea...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
CureVac's coronavirus vaccine candidate triggered immune response in animal tests
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's unlisted CureVac said its experimental coronavirus vaccine was shown to trigger an immune response in animals when given a low dose and the biotech fir...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
France to go ahead with digital tax this year regardless of possible international deal
PARIS (Reuters) - France will go ahead with its tax on big digital businesses this year whether there is progress or not towards an international deal on the issue, its finance minister said on Thursd...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
Nvidia turns to driver-assistance market as robo-taxis stall
By Jane Lanhee Lee and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp, whose semiconductors power data centers, autonomous cars and robots, said on Thursday it plans to enter the market for technology that he...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
India to provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers
By Aftab Ahmed and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural j...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
Two dead in eastern Turkey in armed attack on aid distributors
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two people were killed and another was wounded in an armed attack on a municipality vehicle in the eastern Turkish province of Van, the governor's office said on Thursday. The att...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
Walk-through sanitising booth sprays South African commuters
By Emma Rumney JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Commuters squinted as they streamed into a bus station in the South African township of Soweto on a bright Thursday, but not because of the glare - they were be...
Thomson Reuters May 14, 2020
