Author Archives: Syndicated Content
New $1 billion fund aims to steer antibiotic companies in tough market
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - A new $1 billion fund backed by 20 drugmakers including Merck & Co Inc and Pfizer Inc is aiming to bolster struggling antibiotic companies and sustain a pipeline for new tr...
Jul 09, 2020
Serbia revokes weekend lockdown after protests
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's will not reimpose a weekend lockdown in the capital Belgrade to halt spreading coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said after the prospect of the renewed r...
Jul 09, 2020
British high street reeling as another 5,000 jobs go
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest names on the British high street said they would cut more than 5,000 jobs on Thursday after conceding that customers were unlikely to return to the...
Jul 09, 2020
Graduate teaches children in Delhi slum without access to online learning
By Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a squalid slum below a partially built flyover in eastern Delhi, Satyendra Pal stands by a whiteboard propped against a straw hut, with half a dozen children we...
Jul 09, 2020
ViacomCBS signs four-year deal to stream UEFA Champions League matches
(Reuters) - ViacomCBS Inc said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with European soccer's governing body UEFA to live-stream Champions League matches on CBS All Access in the United States, startin...
Jul 09, 2020
TikTok says removed over 49 million videos in second half of 2019
(Reuters) - Social media app TikTok said on Thursday it removed over 49 million videos that violated its guidelines or terms of service from its platform globally in the second half of last year. "Our...
Jul 09, 2020
UK expected to set out next stage of lockdown easing later on Thursday
LONDON (Reuters) - British culture minister Oliver Dowden will hold a news conference, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, when the government is expected to set out the nex...
Jul 09, 2020
Czech firms expect slump in orders to continue but no mass layoffs for now: survey
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A third of Czech companies expect orders to drop by 20-40% over the next two months as they continue to feel the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, although they are not yet planni...
Jul 09, 2020
Canadian housing starts climb by 8.3% in June: CMHC
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts rose by more than expected in June as groundbreaking increased on multiple unit urban homes, data from the national housing agency showed on Thursday, provi...
Jul 09, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims stay elevated; labor market improvement stalling
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Weakening demand and a resurgence in new COVID-19 cases are keeping new U.S. applications for unemployment benefits extraordinarily high, suggesting the labor ...
Jul 09, 2020
