Category Archives: Syndicated
China-India border clash stokes contrasting domestic responses
By Yew Lun Tian and Sanjeev Miglani BEIJING/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The skirmish between Chinese and Indian troops over a long-disputed border this month is being treated in New Delhi as the country's w...
Jun 23, 2020
AI chatbot firm Rasa raises funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel
(Reuters) - Rasa, a small artificial intelligence-backed chatbot company, said on Tuesday it had raised $26 million from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners to fund more machine l...
Jun 23, 2020
Inovio gets $71 million from U.S. defense department for COVID-19 vaccine device
(Reuters) - Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday it has received $71 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to scale up production of the company's devices that are used to administer...
Jun 23, 2020
Denmark’s high tax consensus wobbles as Danes told to spend
By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Opposition parties in Denmark are pushing for temporary cuts to one of the world's highest tax regimes to ensure pandemic cash handouts boost consumption i...
Jun 23, 2020
Exclusive: German finance minister says regulators did not work effectively on Wirecard
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said it appeared that regulators did not work effectively in regards to payments provider Wirecard, whose chief executive has been arrested on su...
Jun 23, 2020
EU to focus on rebuilding after pandemic in next 18 months: Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with her counterparts in Portugal and Slovenia that the EU should focus on rebuilding the bloc economically and socially after the coronavirus...
Jun 23, 2020
Italy industry minister says Alitalia had 232 million euros of liquidity as of May 31
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli said on Tuesday ailing carrier Alitalia had 232 mln euros of liquidity as of May 31, as the airline sector struggles with huge losses due ...
Jun 23, 2020
Vexed by annexation: The battle inside the EU over Israel
By Robin Emmott, Luke Baker, John Irish and Maayan Lubell BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two months before Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan on Jan. 28, Luxembourg's foreign minister was certain ...
Jun 23, 2020
Trials with Oxford COVID-19 vaccine start in Brazil
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Oxford University this weekend started human clinical trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine in Brazil, sponsor Lemann Foundation said in a statement late on Monday. Trials w...
Jun 23, 2020
South Korea church hit by COVID-19 says members to give plasma for research
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - Around 4,000 recovered COVID-19 patients from a religious group at the centre of South Korea's largest outbreak will donate plasma for research, an official said on Tue...
Jun 23, 2020
