Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Asian stocks set to rise as drug trials, data push Wall Street higher
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Asian stocks were set to climb on Wednesday after another late Wall Street surge in response to upbeat trial results for a COVID-19 treatment and data showing...
Jun 16, 2020
Congo mining provinces impose new COVID-19 lockdowns
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo's southeastern mining heartland announced temporary lockdowns on Tuesday in an effort to widen coronavirus testing and prevent a worryi...
Jun 16, 2020
Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish targets in northern Iraq
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Defence Ministry said its warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq's Haftanin region on Wednesday, the second such operation launched against the Kurdista...
Jun 16, 2020
U.S. unions urge Mexico to defend workers’ rights after labor advocate’s arrest
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Pressure is growing for Mexican authorities to release prominent labor lawyer Susana Prieto, arrested a week ago at a protest, with two U.S. unions concer...
Jun 16, 2020
Some Amazon villagers eschew drugs for COVID-19, take ‘toothache plant’ herbal tea
By Leonardo Benassatto PORTEL, Brazil (Reuters) - Some villagers in the eastern Amazon are spurning Brazilian government advice to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to keep the novel coronaviru...
Jun 16, 2020
Living on the edge, Pakistani Hindus still feel safer in India
By Anushree Fadnavis NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Seven years ago, Dharamveer Solanki, a Hindu, left his home in Pakistan's Hyderabad city, never to return. When his train crossed the border into India, Sola...
Jun 16, 2020
Transparency needed to restore trust after 737 MAX crashes: FAA chief
(Reuters) - U.S. FAA chief Steve Dickson will tell a Senate committee at a hearing on Wednesday that transparency is key to restoring public trust in the agency and planemaker Boeing Co in the wake of...
Jun 16, 2020
Fed has lots of ‘dry powder,’ Kaplan tells Bloomberg Radio
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve, which has cut interest rates to zero, is buying bonds to keep financial conditions easy and has opened up a raft of lending programs to backstop lar...
Jun 16, 2020
Coleman facing possible doping ban after whereabouts failure
(Reuters) - World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman of the United States said on Tuesday that he is facing a possible suspension after another violation of the anti-doping whereabouts rules. Colem...
Jun 16, 2020
Bayer scraps U.S. plans to produce crop chemical blocked by court
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bayer AG said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce the chemical dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision ...
Jun 16, 2020
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