Author Archives: Syndicated Content
In England, William Shakespeare receives a COVID-19 vaccine
LONDON (Reuters) - William Shakespeare from Warwickshire in England was one of the first people to receive the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine outside a clinical trial on Tuesday. The 81-year-old had ...
Dec 08, 2020
‘He said Victor was shot’: Brother grapples with loss after Nigeria protest deaths
By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - It was after midnight in Lagos on Oct. 21 when Elisha Sunday said he got a call from his brother Victor's phone: a stranger told him Victor had been shot dead by sold...
Dec 08, 2020
Chip supply crunch likely to hit China’s auto output in first quarter 2021: industry body
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A shortage of certain auto chips may start to have a big impact on car production at some Chinese companies in the first quarter next year, a senior industry executive sai...
Dec 08, 2020
France confirms severe bird flu outbreak on duck farm
PARIS (Reuters) - The French farm ministry said on Tuesday that highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu had been found on a duck farm in the southwest of the country, confirming France's first farm outbreak o...
Dec 08, 2020
Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid as PM: state media
DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah reappointed Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as prime minister on Tuesday after he had submitted his government's resignation in a procedu...
Dec 08, 2020
Indonesia’s Bio Farma says interim data for Sinovac vaccine shows up to 97% efficacy
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said on Tuesday that interim data on trials it was conducting on vaccines produced by the Chinese company Sinovac showed up...
Dec 08, 2020
European shares slip on Brexit, virus worries
(Reuters) - European shares dipped on Tuesday, as a post-Brexit trade deal hung in the balance, while rising coronavirus cases spurred talks of stricter restrictions that could cause more economic pai...
Dec 08, 2020
Russia reports 26,097 new coronavirus cases, 562 deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia confirmed 26,097 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday, including 5,232 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 2,515,009. Authorities said 562 people had di...
Dec 08, 2020
Good luck finding a PlayStation 5: Walmart and other retailers battle ‘bots’ snatching up hot products
By Richa Naidu and Melissa Fares CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seven times last month, Benjamin Karmis, a 26-year-old priest from Wheaton, Illinois, failed to get his hands on the latest Sony PlayStati...
Dec 08, 2020
British woman, 86, who lost husband to COVID is among first to get vaccine
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - An 86-year-old British woman, who lost her husband to COVID-19 in April, was among the first in the world to be offered the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the vi...
Dec 08, 2020
