Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Vaccine vs variant: Promising data in Israel’s race to defeat pandemic
By Maayan Lubell and Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's swift vaccination rollout has made it the largest real-world study of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine. Results are trickling in, and t...
Feb 10, 2021
Russia issues international arrest warrant for Navalny ally: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for one of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies, Leonid Volkov, who is currently based outside Russia, the Interfax news agency r...
Feb 10, 2021
Chicago teachers vote for COVID-19 safety plan agreement with district
By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers voted in favor of approving a tentative COVID-19 safety plan to allow the third-largest U.S. public school system to gradually resume in-person ...
Feb 10, 2021
Death knell sounded for Grand Slam line judges at Australian Open
By Sudipto Ganguly (Reuters) - The Australian Open looks to have seen the last of the crouching officials scrutinising the lines of the tennis court after their replacement by technology for this year...
Feb 10, 2021
Mavs stop playing anthem, per Cuban’s decision
The national anthem is no longer played before Dallas Mavericks home games, a decision team owner Mark Cuban confirmed Tuesday to The Athletic and ESPN. The team has played at the American Airlines Ce...
Feb 10, 2021
Italy’s 5-Star online ballot to be held after Draghi draws up government agenda: leader to paper
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's 5-Star Movement will hold an online ballot of its members to decide whether to back a Mario Draghi government only after the Prime Minister designate will draw up an agenda, t...
Feb 10, 2021
Australian media say ‘sorry’ for breaching gag order in Cardinal Pell child sex assault case
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian media companies apologised in court on Wednesday for breaching a suppression order on reporting a child sex assault conviction, since overturned, of former Vatican tre...
Feb 10, 2021
EMA expected to approve Johnson & Johnson vaccine by March – CEO of Janssen Italy to paper
ROME (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency is expected to give its approval to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson by March, the Managing Director of Janssen Italia, part of the J&...
Feb 10, 2021
India’s Biological E looking to make 600 million J&J vaccine shots a year – CEO
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian pharmaceutical company Biological E Ltd is looking to contract-manufacture roughly 600 million doses of Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine candidate ...
Feb 10, 2021
Davos organisers prepare for August summit in Singapore, size unsure
By John Geddie SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Having delayed its 'Davos' summit in Singapore twice already, the World Economic Forum is pressing on with plans to gather in August, but how big the meeting is wi...
Feb 10, 2021
