Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Cycling: Thomas to lead Ineos Tour de France challenge
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran Geraint Thomas will lead the Ineos Grenadiers Tour de France bid this year with surprise Giro d'Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart in a supporting role, team ...
Feb 03, 2021
China reports small uptick in new COVID-19 cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported 30 new COVID-19 cases on the mainland on Feb. 3, official data showed on Thursday, up slightly from 25 cases a day earlier but still well below the peaks seen at the...
Feb 03, 2021
Melbourne imposes new virus restrictions as Australian Open tennis hotel worker tests positive
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second-most populous city reintroduced coronavirus restrictions from Thursday after an Australian Open hotel quarantine worker tested positive to COVID-19, sending more ...
Feb 03, 2021
Vaccination sites opening in hard-hit California communities to tackle COVID disparities
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New vaccination centers are due to open this month in the heart of two California communities especially hard hit by the coronavirus, as state and federal offic...
Feb 03, 2021
Dollar holds gains on optimism for economic outlook
By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar traded near its strongest in more than two months against the euro and the yen on Thursday as pessimism about the U.S. economic outlook recedes before the...
Feb 03, 2021
Asian stocks ease as caution persists despite calmer markets
By Imani Moise NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian stocks came under pressure on Thursday as a mixed Wall Street session gave investors few immediate reasons to increase their risk positions following the rece...
Feb 03, 2021
South Korea’s Moon pledged to upgrade S.Korea-U.S. alliance in call with Biden – presidential office
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that he pledged to upgrade the country's alliance with the United States in a phone call with President Joe Biden, Seoul's presid...
Feb 03, 2021
Tennis: Australian Open cohort at ‘relatively low risk’ from COVID-19 case
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Victoria health officials believe 520 players and support staff connected with the Australian Open are at relatively low risk of having been exposed to the new coronavirus by a M...
Feb 03, 2021
Britain trial to test combining Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in two-shot regimen
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday launched a trial to assess the immune responses generated if doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc are combined in a two-shot schedu...
Feb 03, 2021
Global vaccine trust rising, but France, Japan, others sceptical
LONDON (Reuters) - People's willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is rising around the world and more than half of those questioned said they would take the shot if it were offered next week,...
Feb 03, 2021
