Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Escaping the ‘guillotine’: Brexit deal brings relief to French fishermen
By Richard Lough BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - French trawler owner Bruno Margolle refuses to talk of victory over British fishermen, when European quotas have been cut and will soon be negotia...
Dec 29, 2020
Ireland begins COVID-19 vaccinations with 79-year-old woman
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday by giving a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to a 79-year-old woman at a hospital in Dublin, the health service said, a...
Dec 29, 2020
‘Pray floods don’t kill us’: A day on Rohingya’s remote Bangladesh island
By Mohammad Ponir Hossain BHASAN CHAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - As a Bangladeshi naval ship anchored off a remote Bay of Bengal island, some of the Rohingya Muslim refugees aboard clapped in anticipatio...
Dec 29, 2020
EU is asked to approve extra dose from Pfizer vaccine vials
By Jan Lopatka and Emilio Parodi PRAGUE/ROME (Reuters) - The European Union was asked on Tuesday to allow an extra dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech to be taken from each v...
Dec 29, 2020
Tennis-Simon, Daniell and Andujar join ATP Council after Djokovic withdrawal
(Reuters) - Gilles Simon, Marcus Daniell and Pablo Andujar were voted as the new members on the 2021-22 ATP Players Council, the governing body for men's tennis said on Tuesday, days after world numbe...
Dec 29, 2020
UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists arrested in what the ex...
Dec 29, 2020
Factbox-COVID variants, found in UK and South Africa, travel the world
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said a variant of the coronavirus, which could be up to 70% more transmissible, is spreading rapidly in Britain. A separate variant, first f...
Dec 29, 2020
Pope appoints successor to liberal Dublin archbishop Martin
VATICAN CITY/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's most liberal Roman Catholic prelate, the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, is to step aside having reached the normal retirement age for bishops of 75, th...
Dec 29, 2020
Romanian president donates 200,000 Pfizer vaccine doses to Moldova
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday said Romania would donate 200,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Moldova, offered as a gesture of solidari...
Dec 29, 2020
Ice hockey-IIHF president to meet Belarus’ Lukashenko to discuss 2021 world championship – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of ice hockey's international governing body said on Tuesday it would do everything possible to ensure the 2021 world championship is held in Belarus as planned despite cal...
Dec 29, 2020
