Category Archives: Syndicated
Canada giving AbCellera Biologics C$176 million for coronavirus research
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Sunday it was giving privately held Canadian firm AbCellera Biologics Inc C$176 million to help it find naturally produced antibodies that could be used to battle the...
May 03, 2020
Europcar gets 307 million euros in financing to cope with COVID-19 crisis
PARIS (Reuters) - French car hire company Europcar said on Sunday it had secured a total of 307 million euros ($337.18 million) in new financing to manage through the coronavirus crisis. The sum inclu...
May 03, 2020
France’s COVID-19 tracing app expected to enter testing in week of May 11
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) - France's state-supported "StopCOVID" contact-tracing app should enter its testing phase in the week of May 11 when the country starts to unwind its lockdown, a go...
May 03, 2020
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift
By A.S.M Suza Uddin and Poppy McPherson COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in...
May 03, 2020
Greece to ship hundreds of migrants to mainland from camp on Lesbos
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will move hundreds of migrants from a camp on the island of Lesbos to mainland facilities on Sunday as part of efforts to ease overcrowding, police and government officials s...
May 03, 2020
Turkey’s coronavirus death toll rises to 3,397: ministry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 61 in the last 24 hours to 3,397, Health Ministry data showed on Sunday. The overall number of cases rose b...
May 03, 2020
Copper giant Peru to gradually ease restrictions on mining sector in May
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will gradually ease restrictions on key sectors including mining and construction in May, the government said in a decree on Sunday, after activity had been virtually paralyzed s...
May 03, 2020
Ireland’s Green Party enters talks on formation of government
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Green Party agreed on Sunday to enter formal talks with centre-right parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael on forming a government, but said it would withdraw if unable to agr...
May 03, 2020
TUI’s China unit resumes domestic holiday offers
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Chinese unit of Germany's TUI , the world's biggest tourism group, said on Sunday it has resumed offering holiday packages in China and urged the European Union (EU) to lift tra...
May 03, 2020
WHO’s Ryan says world is in ‘fight of our lives’, but there is hope
By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life, but the new coro...
May 03, 2020
