Author Archives: Syndicated Content
‘Oxygen, oxygen, oxygen’: Nigeria battles shortages amid COVID-19 surge
By Libby George and Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - The Lagos businesswoman recalled the "horrendous" week she spent in the COVID-19 wing of a city public hospital, where the sense of crisis was l...
Feb 02, 2021
Analysis: GameStop saga expected to revive scrutiny of hedge fund industry
By Pete Schroeder and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With hedge funds at the center of market drama for the second time in less than 12 months, the GameStop saga is likely to expedite a regulat...
Feb 02, 2021
Explainer: Biden pledged to reunite migrant families separated by Trump policies. What happens now?
By Mimi Dwyer and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) - U.S. president Joe Biden is on Tuesday expected to announce a task force to reunify families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the administration ...
Feb 02, 2021
Impossible Foods cuts faux meat prices by 20% at grocery stores
(Reuters) - Impossible Foods said on Tuesday it would cut the prices of its faux meat patties by 20% at U.S. grocery stores as the plant-based protein maker ramps up production with a larger plan to e...
Feb 02, 2021
Police officer killed in storming of U.S. Capitol to lie in honor in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The police officer killed when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol last month trying to overturn the election results will lie in honor in the b...
Feb 02, 2021
In Algerian mountains, army operation shows persistent militant threat
By Lamine Chikhi AIN DEFLA, Algeria (Reuters) - Algerian soldiers fired high-calibre rounds into a scrubby hillside of the Ain Defla mountains last week, part of an operation against the persistent th...
Feb 02, 2021
Analysis: In China, post-coup Myanmar likely to find support if sanctions bite
By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) - Three weeks before Myanmar's military commander took power in a coup, he met the Chinese government's top diplomat in an exchange that pointed to po...
Feb 02, 2021
Coronavirus mutation ‘of most concern’ has occurred spontaneously in UK variant
LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus mutation "of most concern" has occurred spontaneously in the UK variant, a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that advises the British government ...
Feb 02, 2021
UK’s Captain Tom Moore visited by family in hospital
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Captain Tom Moore, the centenarian who became a national hero with his record-breaking fundraising exploits, has been visited by members of his family in hospital as he ba...
Feb 02, 2021
Viagogo must sell StubHub’s international business, CMA says
(Reuters) - Britain's competition watchdog said on Tuesday that Viagogo would need to sell all of StubHub's business outside North America after its probe found the deal would reduce competition in th...
Feb 02, 2021
