Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Kazakhstan orders residents of major cities to stay home
ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will bar the residents of its two biggest cities, Almaty and Nur-Sultan, from leaving their homes except for work or to buy food or medicines, starting from March 28, the...
Mar 26, 2020
U.S.-Israeli Pyramid Analytics raises $25 million in funding
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Pyramid Analytics, a U.S.-Israeli developer of a business intelligence platform, said on Thursday it raised $25 million, led by venture capital fund Jerusalem Venture Partners (JV...
Mar 26, 2020
Cases in Italy's Lombardy rise by some 2,500 on Thursday, data "not good": official
MILAN (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus cases in the in the northern region of Lombardy, which includes Italy's financial capital Milan, increased by some 2,500 on Thursday, regional governor Atti...
Mar 26, 2020
Australia enters 4,000 healthcare workers in trial for coronavirus vaccine
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of Australian healthcare workers will begin a trial to see if a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis can fight off the new coronavirus, researchers said, joi...
Mar 26, 2020
U.S. death toll from coronavirus approaches 1,000
By Doina Chiacu and Maria Caspani WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus approached the milestone of 1,000 on Thursday as hospitals in New York and other hot spots st...
Mar 26, 2020
Danish charity network to 3D print protective visors
By Andreas Mortensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A group of Danish entrepreneurs have started a charity network that stands ready to make up to 20,000 protective visors a day using 3D printers, in an attem...
Mar 26, 2020
Fearing coronavirus, African city dwellers flee to the countryside
By Edwin Waita NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Each morning at a crowded bus station east of Nairobi, Kenyans load their bags on to minibuses emblazoned with the faces of pop stars and Jesus, heading...
Mar 26, 2020
Caterpillar halts operations at certain facilities, withdraws 2020 outlook
(Reuters) - Construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar Inc said on Thursday it was suspending operations at certain facilities and withdrawing its 2020 outlook as the coronavirus pandemic sap...
Mar 26, 2020
Belgium says coronavirus peak still ahead
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The peak of Belgium's coronavirus infections still lies ahead, the health ministry said on Thursday, adding much will depend on how strictly people follow lockdo...
Mar 26, 2020
Kirsten Hillman named Canada's ambassador to U.S.
(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday named Kirsten Hillman as the country's ambassador to the United States. Hillman has been Canada's acting ambassador to the United States ...
Mar 26, 2020
