ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s lira edged lower in early trading on Monday, adding to a recent slide and nearing an all-time low as a chill settled on relations with the United States and after the new central bank chief signalled that rate hikes would harm the economy. FILE PHOTO: Turkish lira banknotes are seen in…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s top diplomat traveled to Moscow on Sunday for a visit with Russian officials, his office said, amid talks to hammer out plans for Mexico to bottle Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine domestically after delays in shipments.FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard speaks as a batch of the AstraZeneca coronavirus…
Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible tech pedigrees, but their latest venture involves as much digging in dirt as it does digging through lines of code. The two women have founded Neverland, a startup for the home gardener that aims to be a marketplace connecting mom and pop gardening shops with the explosion of…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. A week ago TechCrunch covered Pico’s $6.5 million funding round and described it as “a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies…
Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) – Get Report vaccine for COVID-19 received strong reassurances from a top health official on Sunday, days after the shot was given the green light to continue use following blood clot concerns. “You are less likely as a woman taking J&J to have this blood-clotting problem than to get struck by lightning…
A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carries an oxygen cylinder into the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, in New Delhi, India, April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiBritain said on Sunday it was sending more than 600 medical devices including oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India to help the country as it struggles…
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is evacuated from a hospital after it caught fire in Virar, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Francis MascarenhasLONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday it was sending more than 600 medical devices including oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India to help the country…
A general view of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File PhotoDemocratic Louisiana state Senator Troy Carter has defeated a challenger from the party’s left wing in a special election to win the U.S. House of Representatives seat vacated by White House adviser Cedric Richmond.Carter won 55% of the vote on…
Former Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday that soldiers had attacked his residence and that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was responsible.”It is very unfortunate that an army under the command of the former president attacked my residence. I have already warned and reiterated the dangers of politicising security. Farmajo is responsible for the…
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he doesn’t think the Johson & Johnson vaccine pause will lead to more hesitancy. The US resumed the rollout of the vaccine and regulators added a warning label about the small risk of blood clots for women under 50. Fauci said the pause should show Americans that the US takes “safety…





