Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Giants player tests positive for COVID-19
The New York Giants on Thursday announced that a player tested positive for COVID-19. NFL Network reported that it was an offensive lineman and that all but four of the team's linemen are in quarantin...
Oct 29, 2020
‘Take Biden and Trump down!’ In Moscow, neither U.S. candidate appeals
By Tom Balmforth and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin, threw a champagne party in Russia's parliament in 2016 to toast Donald Trump's p...
Oct 29, 2020
Mexico says unhappy with lack of U.S. coordination on ex-army chief’s arrest
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Thursday his government had expressed its "profound discontent" to U.S. officials for not informing their Mexican counterparts of...
Oct 29, 2020
Japan tops 100,000 coronavirus cases, daily infections creep up
TOKYO (Reuters) - Total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Japan exceeded the 100,000 mark on Thursday, public broadcaster NHK said, as the number of daily infections has crept up in recent weeks. The num...
Oct 29, 2020
Analysis: What do waning COVID-19 antibodies tell us about immunity and vaccines?
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Growing evidence that COVID-19 antibody levels can wane swiftly after someone is infected is not necessarily bad news for immunity, experts said on Thursday, and doe...
Oct 29, 2020
Protect nature or face deadlier pandemics than COVID-19, scientists warn
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - Pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, cost more and kill more people than COVID-19 without bold action to halt the habitat destruction that helps viruses...
Oct 29, 2020
English weekly COVID cases up 23% but contacts traced still at record lows
LONDON (Reuters) - Positive COVID-19 cases in England are up 23% on the previous week, statistics published by the country's test and trace scheme on Thursday showed, with the proportion of contacts o...
Oct 29, 2020
Ivory Coast former president Gbagbo breaks silence to warn of election ‘catastrophe’
By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Aaron Ross ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo warned on Thursday the West African nation faced a catastrophe if candidates in Saturday's presid...
Oct 29, 2020
Scientists identify prolific coronavirus strain which started in Spain and spread across Europe
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A coronavirus strain that emerged in Spain in June has spread across Europe and now makes up a large proportion of infections in several countries, researchers s...
Oct 29, 2020
At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drown off Senegal coast: U.N
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 140 Europe-bound migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal in the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, the U.N. migration agency said on Thursday. The boat carrying...
Oct 29, 2020
