Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Belarus stripped of ice hockey world championship after crackdown on protesters
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus has been stripped of the right to co-host this year's ice hockey world championship due to safety concerns over political unrest and the COVID-19...
Jan 18, 2021
Scientists see new evidence South African variant binds more readily to human cells
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists have new biological evidence that the so-called South African coronavirus variant binds more readily and strongly to human cells, making it more infectious, top loc...
Jan 18, 2021
Israel sharing COVID-19 data with Pfizer to help fine-tune vaccine rollout
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is giving weekly data updates on its COVID-19 outbreak to vaccine maker Pfizer under a collaboration agreement that may help other countries fine-tune their inoculation ca...
Jan 18, 2021
TC Energy shares fall on fears of KXL oil pipeline cancellation
By Nia Williams and Rod Nickel CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Shares in Keystone XL oil pipeline owner TC Energy fell on Monday after reports U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will cancel a permit for the ...
Jan 18, 2021
IMF chief sees ‘high degree of uncertainty’ in global outlook
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday the global economic outlook remained highly uncertain given the coronavirus pandemic, and a growing d...
Jan 18, 2021
Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether a woman took a laptop computer or hard drive from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Jan. 6 s...
Jan 18, 2021
Ugandan opposition says troops raid its offices amid election challenge
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The leader of Uganda's main opposition party, Bobi Wine, said troops raided its headquarters on Monday as staff tried to prepare a legal challenge to President Yoweri Museveni's de...
Jan 18, 2021
Euro zone mulls how to prevent COVID driving its economies apart
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers were discussing on Monday how to best design and coordinate economic plans to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, while the European ...
Jan 18, 2021
Lebanon’s COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors
By Maha El Dahan and Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - COVID-19 patients wait on pavements outside hospitals in Beirut, where emergency rooms are packed and intensive care beds full. Inside, exhausted ...
Jan 18, 2021
U.S. and China clash at WHO over scientific mission in Wuhan
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview "care givers, former patients and lab workers" in the centr...
Jan 18, 2021
