ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria hopes to receive up to 70 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this year through the African Union (AU), its primary healthcare chief told Reuters, amid concerns about delayed deliveries of AstraZeneca shots.FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, “COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only” and a medical syringe are seen in […]

U.S. stock futures were mixed Wednesday, one day after the Dow broke a three-session winning streak and slipped from its previous record high close. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also dropped slightly as tech stocks came under pressure after the 10-year Treasury yield hit a new 14-month high of 1.776% on Tuesday. (CNBC) Heading into the last day of March, […]

Slideshow ( 2 images )LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco said on Wednesday the government had no plans to impose private partnerships on the oil giant, after it launched a programme to support private investment in the kingdom as part of Saudi Arabia’s diversification push. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Tuesday state-controlled Aramco and petrochemical firm SABIC would […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Global asset manager BlackRock has de-registered a private fund unit in Shanghai as it prepares to launch its mutual fund business in the world’s second-biggest economy.FILE PHOTO: A sign for BlackRock Inc hangs above their building in New York U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File PhotoBlackRock last week voluntarily cancelled the business registration of its wholly foreign-owned […]

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – ByteDance is in talks about a possible offshore listing of its short video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, in New York or Hong Kong, two people familiar with the matter said.A man stands near a giant sign of Chinese company ByteDance’s app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, during China Fashion Week, in Beijing, China […]

LA TÉCNICA, GUATEMALA (Reuters) – Maritza Hernández arrived at this remote Guatemalan village exhausted, with two young kids in tow and more than a thousand miles left to travel. She was motivated by a simple – if not entirely accurate – story.Honduran migrant families trying to reach the U.S. cross the Usumacinta river on a boat, as seen from La […]

Slideshow ( 2 images )PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed possible cooperation on vaccines with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a joint video conference on Tuesday, Macron’s office and the Kremlin said. The Kremlin said in a statement that the trio had discussed the outlook for Russia’s flagship Sputnik V vaccine being registered […]

FILE PHOTO: State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency of Sweden takes part in a digital news conference updating on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic situation, in Stockholm, Sweden March 11, 2021. Fredrik Sandberg / TT News Agency/via REUTERS STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The number of new infections in Sweden is rising, but tougher restrictions are not the way […]