Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sweden's not soft on virus, says PM, in dig at foreign media
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Impressions conveyed abroad that Sweden has adopted a "business as usual" approach to the coronavirus are wrong, its prime minister said on Friday, adding that strong cooperation...
May 15, 2020
Pfizer to launch late stage DMD gene therapy trial despite hospitalizations
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Friday that a third patient had to be hospitalized after being treated with its experimental gene therapy for a rare degenerative muscular cond...
May 15, 2020
BAT says potential COVID-19 vaccine using tobacco leaves ready for human trials
(Reuters) - World's No.2 cigarette company British American Tobacco said on Friday it was ready to test its potential COVID-19 vaccine using proteins from tobacco leaves on humans, after it generated ...
May 15, 2020
UK may ease restrictions at different speeds: PM spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom might ease the restrictions imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus at different speeds in particular regions, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on ...
May 15, 2020
India to spend $13 billion on a farm infrastructure fund
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will provide one trillion Indian rupees ($13.19 billion) to set up for the agriculture infrastructure fund, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. The governme...
May 15, 2020
Chinese ship leaves Malaysian waters after month-long South China Sea standoff
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Chinese survey ship that had been involved in a month-long standoff with a Malaysian oil exploration vessel in the South China Sea has left Malaysia's excl...
May 15, 2020
UK tells EU on Brexit: Blink or there will be no deal
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom told the European Union on Friday that it had to give ground or there would be no Brexit free trade deal by the end of the year, saying there had been very little...
May 15, 2020
Private creditors push back against blanket debt relief for Africa
LONDON (Reuters) - Prominent emerging market creditors have set up the Africa Private Creditor Working Group to assist some of the world's poorest countries contain the economic impact of COVID-19, bu...
May 15, 2020
Afghans say Taliban behind bloodshed, reject U.S. blame of Islamic State
By Hamid Shalizi and Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan officials on Friday blamed the Taliban for a bloody attack on a maternity hospital in the capital, Kabul, this week, rejecting a U.S. a...
May 15, 2020
Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 strikes near Tonopah, Nevada: USGS
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck 57 km west-northwest of Tonopah in Nevada on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 7.6 km, it added. (Reporting by Shub...
May 15, 2020
