Category Archives: Syndicated
IMF’s Georgieva creates new external advisory panel on pandemic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Friday announced the creation of a new external advisory group to provide input on policy challenges, inclu...
Apr 10, 2020
Italy’s banks fail to get wider virus support measures for already struggling firms
By Valentina Za and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) - Italy has rebuffed calls to widely include businesses who were already struggling to repay their debt in its latest coronavirus economic aid packag...
Apr 10, 2020
Myanmar frees journalist who was charged under terrorism law
(Reuters) - A Myanmar journalist arrested on terrorism charges after publishing an interview with a spokesman for the Arakan Army rebel group was freed on Thursday and said police had told him they wo...
Apr 10, 2020
Finland’s emergency supply agency head quits over face mask scandal
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's government said on Friday it accepted the resignation of the head of the country's emergency supply agency, over the multi-million euro purchase of Chinese face masks th...
Apr 10, 2020
Vending machines selling face masks appear on Warsaw streets
WARSAW (Reuters) - Vending machines selling face masks, gloves and sanitizers appeared on the streets of Poland's two biggest cities this week, as the country stepped up social distancing rules to cur...
Apr 10, 2020
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 17,000: Reuters tally
By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus topped 17,000 on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs that Americans staying home was curbing new infections. ...
Apr 10, 2020
Exclusive: Amneal running out of hydroxychloroquine raw material due to Finnish restrictions
By Michael Erman and Anne Kauranen NEW YORK/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Amneal Pharmaceuticals could soon run out of the raw ingredients to make more of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine that has been...
Apr 10, 2020
In epicentre of French virus outbreak, medical workers believe peak has passed
By Tangi Salan PARIS (Reuters) - As head of the urgent cases team in the Mulhouse ambulance service, Marc Noizet has been at the eye of the coronavirus storm that swept through this eastern French cit...
Apr 10, 2020
Russia to block ‘fake news’ criticism of coronavirus measures
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said it would start blocking from Friday access to "fake news" social media posts criticising quarantine measures taken by the city of Moscow to...
Apr 10, 2020
Mexico seeks more medical equipment from U.S. and China
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is seeking more medical equipment from the United States and China to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday. Lopez Ob...
Apr 10, 2020
