Category Archives: Syndicated
Kenya police arrest prison warden over rape of patient in COVID-19 quarantine
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police arrested a prison warden accused of raping a female patient in a COVID-19 isolation facility he was meant to be guarding, a police report said on Friday. It was the l...
Jul 17, 2020
Extension of G20 debt freeze for poorest countries ‘highly probable’: Reinhart
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Group of 20 major economies is likely to extend a freeze in debt service payments on official bilateral debt for the world's poorest countries beyond the en...
Jul 17, 2020
Symptom tracker app reveals six distinct types of COVID-19 infection
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptom...
Jul 17, 2020
Hong Kong gives conditional greenlight to Gilead COVID-19 drug containing Remdesivir
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Gilead Sciences medicine containing Remdesivir has received a conditional greenlight to be used to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong officials said on Friday. The Hong K...
Jul 17, 2020
Serbia, Albania secure ECB repo lines amid pandemic
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Albania and Serbia on Friday became the latest Balkan countries to secure credit lines from the European Central Bank to provide euro loans to banks in those countries via repurc...
Jul 17, 2020
Suspect arrested in murder of founder of Gokada ride-sharing app, New York Times reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The personal assistant to Fahim Saleh, who founded the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, was arrested on Friday in the murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan...
Jul 17, 2020
Arise Sir Tom Moore: Queen Elizabeth knights 100-year-old fundraising captain
WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth II knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognising the 100-year-old for lifting the spirits of the nation during the gloom of the novel coronavirus outbr...
Jul 17, 2020
Russia’s R-Pharm signs deal to make UK-developed COVID-19 vaccine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian drugmaker R-Pharm has signed a deal with AstraZeneca for it to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the British pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University, it ...
Jul 17, 2020
EasyJet pilots say they have no confidence in COO in union vote
LONDON (Reuters) - Over 2,000 easyJet pilots voted to say they had no confidence in the airline's chief operating officer Peter Bellew, illustrating the strain on labour relations as the company tries...
Jul 17, 2020
Wall Street Week Ahead: Fund managers navigate ‘Night of the Living Dead’ in small caps
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are searching for bargains in the world of U.S. small-caps, as the beaten-down asset class prepares for what may be the worst earnings season in its his...
Jul 17, 2020
