Author Archives: Syndicated Content
PETA offers Spain's Pamplona cash to ban bull-running for good
By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Seizing on a rare cancellation of Spain's world-famous bull-running festival in Pamplona due to the coronavirus, animal rights group PETA offered 250,000 euros ($269,...
Apr 23, 2020
Poland to require notification of takeovers by investors from outside EU
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish government will have to be notified of any planned takeovers of Polish companies by investors from outside the EU, Deputy Prime Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said on Thursda...
Apr 23, 2020
European firms step up COVID-19 vaccines work, UK team starts human trials
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain began clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday as other vaccine developers across Europe also stepped up work on their own e...
Apr 23, 2020
Expedia gets $1.2 billion investment from Silver Lake and Apollo; appoints new CEO
(Reuters) - Online travel services provider Expedia Group Inc said on Thursday private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Apollo Global Management Inc would invest about $1.2 billion in the company...
Apr 23, 2020
Glad to be helping: refugee Syrian film-maker turns London hospital cleaner
LONDON (Reuters) - On a coronavirus ward in an east London hospital, award-winning film-maker Hassan Akkad, a refugee from Syria, is working as a cleaner, joining the fight against the pandemic in his...
Apr 23, 2020
African nations to get 300 ventilators from Jack Ma Foundation
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations that lack ventilators for the treatment of COVID-19 patients will receive some from a donation of 300 supplied by the Jack Ma Foundation, t...
Apr 23, 2020
Lockdown exit in France will not be done region by region: presidency
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron told mayors that unwinding the coronavirus lockdown would not be done region by region, the presidency's office said on Thursday. Mayors were also to...
Apr 23, 2020
Shuttered businesses appoint lawyers to take on UK insurer Hiscox
LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of British businesses, shuttered by a government lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic, have appointed lawyers to take on insurer Hiscox saying its refusal to compensat...
Apr 23, 2020
Spray it, don't say it: Kenya graffiti artists spread health message
By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) - A six-foot image of a sad-eyed man, baseball cap askew and mask covering his nose and mouth is spray painted on a building in a Nairobi slum. Next to it are the wo...
Apr 23, 2020
Traffic light for bathroom break is new normal in coronavirus Italy
By Matteo Berlenga BASTIA UMBRA, Italy (Reuters) - Simone Mela never dreamed that a traffic light would determine when he could take a bathroom break in the factory where he works. But in the world ac...
Apr 23, 2020
