Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Catcalls and jokes after Taiwan’s COVID ‘regression calibration’
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's abrupt decision to add 400 new domestic COVID-19 cases has prompted catcalls from opposition politicians and jokes online about fishy statistics, putting the government on ...
May 22, 2021
Australia expects 2 million doses a week of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine from October: SMH
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia expects to receive 2 million doses a week of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from October, Minister for Health Greg Hunt told the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Sunday. Austra...
May 22, 2021
More than 125,000 Myanmar teachers suspended for opposing coup
(Reuters) - More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official ...
May 22, 2021
Vietnam holds parliament election amid new COVID-19 outbreak
HANOI (Reuters) - Tens of millions of mask-wearing Vietnamese were expected to vote on Sunday to select a largely rubber-stamp legislature amid a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in the country. Fe...
May 22, 2021
Report: NBA eases mask rules for vaccinated coaches
The NBA has relaxed the mask requirements for head coaches as the playoffs tip off on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. The league reportedly sent a memo Saturday morning that clears the wa...
May 22, 2021
WTA roundup: Coco Gauff captures second WTA singles title
Coco Gauff cruised to her second career singles title with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Qiang Wang of China on Saturday in the finals of the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma, Italy. The third-seeded American d...
May 22, 2021
Golf-Niemann could supplant McIlroy as youngest PGA Champion
By Andrew Both KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (Reuters) - Chilean Joaquin Niemann has an outside chance on Sunday of supplanting Rory McIlroy as the youngest winner of the PGA Championship, five strokes from the...
May 22, 2021
Swimming-Italian teen Pilato sets 50m breaststroke world record
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Italian 16-year-old Benedetta Pilato broke the women's 50 metre breaststroke world record at the European swimming championships in Budapest with a time of 29.30 seconds in Saturd...
May 22, 2021
U.S. CDC investigating heart problem in few young vaccine recipients: NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking into reports that a very small number of teenagers and young adults vaccinated against the coronavirus may have experienced h...
May 22, 2021
U.S. administers 283.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 283,941,223 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday morning and distributed 357,250,375 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said...
May 22, 2021
