Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Divert arms money to fight COVID-19, ensure vaccine for all, pope says
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged world leaders on Thursday to divert funds used for armaments to confront problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure vaccines reach...
Dec 17, 2020
From Navajo Nation to New Orleans, challenges arise in vaccine roll out
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From the wide-open spaces of a U.S. tribal nation to urban hospital emergency rooms, doctors, nurses and delivery people are wrestling with challenges in the ...
Dec 17, 2020
Swiss National Bank sees no alternative to expansive policy to tackle COVID-19
By John Revill and Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank paid no heed to being branded a currency manipulator by the United States, promising on Thursday to continue an expansive...
Dec 17, 2020
Pence, Biden to get COVID vaccine in bid to build public support
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence will publicly receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday as the Trump administration scrambles to build public support for an inoculati...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. Congress wrangles over details of coronavirus economic aid as deadline approaches
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of feuding and with a weekend deadline fast approaching, U.S. congressional negotiators were wrangling over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 aid...
Dec 17, 2020
COVID vaccine is bonanza for digital supply chain tracking industry
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of vaccines go to waste globally every year because of temperature control, logistics and shipment-related issues. Logistical hurdles are a sig...
Dec 17, 2020
EU, UK officials cautious on any imminent trade deal breakthrough
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain were still "very far apart in key areas" of their trade talks, a British official said after the bloc's Brexit negotiator said on Thursday good prog...
Dec 17, 2020
Erdogan ally calls for Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party to be banned
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally said Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP party, the country's third biggest, should be banned for separatism - a move the HDP's co...
Dec 17, 2020
BioNTech says 140,000 vaccinated in Britain so far
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been given to 140,000 people in Britain, and the feedback on side effects and tolerability has been reassuring, BioNTech's chief medica...
Dec 17, 2020
Russia to ramp up support for Ukraine’s rebel-held east – Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would ramp up its support for Ukraine's rebel-controlled eastern Donbass region where conflict broke out in 2014 between pro-Mo...
Dec 17, 2020
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