Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Unions slam Quebec for allowing some COVID-positive healthcare staff to work
By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Healthcare unions are opposing Quebec's decision to allow some asymptomatic workers infected with COVID-19 to stay on the job, even as an infectious diseas...
Dec 29, 2021
Analysis: No tests, no problem? Experts question new U.S. CDC policy on COVID isolation period
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - New U.S. rules that halve the isolation period for asymptomatic COVID-19 infections lack safeguards that could result in even more infections as the nation fac...
Dec 29, 2021
UK records new record number of COVID cases
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -The United Kingdom reported 183,037 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a new record and over 53,000 more than the previous highest figure registered just a day earlier, g...
Dec 29, 2021
Suspected bomb maker on trial in Morocco after U.S. help arrest him, police say
RABAT (Reuters) - A suspected Islamic State militant and bomb maker went on trial in a Moroccan court on terrorism charges after his arrest in cooperation with U.S. intelligence, police said. The 24-y...
Dec 29, 2021
Cricket-India backing Kohli to get out of his rut
PRETORIA (Reuters) - India batting coach Vikram Rathour has backed out-of-form captain Virat Kohli after another failure in the first test against South Africa at Centurion Park, but says he needs to ...
Dec 29, 2021
Russia, U.S. coordinate on Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, envoy says
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Russian envoy to the Iran nuclear talks said on Wednesday that he had met with his U.S. counterpart in Vienna, where the eighth round of negotiations is taking place. Russia's M...
Dec 29, 2021
Biden to talk to Russia’s Putin on Thursday – White House
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the White House said, as Washington continues to wor...
Dec 29, 2021
Italy reports record 98,030 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, 148 deaths
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported another fresh record daily tally of COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, with new cases hitting 98,030 against 78,313 a day earlier, the health ministry said. The number of co...
Dec 29, 2021
Head of outlawed Russian rights group says “nobody plans to give up”
By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian human rights group Memorial said on Wednesday that he and his colleagues would find a way to carry on their work despite two court rulings th...
Dec 29, 2021
Putin says Nord Stream 2 link ready to calm gas prices
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipeline would help to calm a surge in European gas prices and was ready to start exports now a sec...
Dec 29, 2021
