(Reuters) – Tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea have erupted into a war of words on social media, in what analysts see as a change in US strategy amid a growing superpower rivalry in Southeast Asia. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and American flags fly in …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $ 4.5 billion settlement under which Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google will collaborate with Reliance Industries of India (RELI.NS) On a new smartphone it probably heralds a major shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. FILE PHOTO: The Reliance Industries logo is …
Read More »When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold. What happens when you have severe COVID-19?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – During a blue sky moment in 2018 near the end of a decade-long economic expansion, it was the United States that helped propel the world as additional cash from tax cuts and spending by the government flowed through national funds and global markets FILE PHOTO: A 3D …
Read More »US Paycheck Protection Reached Some of Its Brands, But Lost the Most Vulnerable
(Reuters) – The Paycheck Protection Program appears to have thrown a critical safety net under the US mid- and upper-middle-income jobs, but faltered when it comes to lower-paid jobs and industries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters analysis of the loan details. FILE PHOTO: People visit …
Read More »Rapidly decreasing immunity of COVID-19 poses a vaccination challenge
LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging evidence that the body’s immune defense against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even more difficult for vaccine developers to find vaccines fully capable of protecting people in future waves of infection, Scientists said Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Professor Gottfried Kremsner injects a coronavirus disease vaccine (COVID-19) …
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