Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Montenegro approves new coalition, overturning three decades of socialist role
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Montenegro's parliament on Friday endorsed a new coalition government with a wafer-thin majority that needs to steer the country through the coronavirus crisis and an economic dow...
Dec 04, 2020
Canada PM Trudeau won’t comment on possible Meng release, says priority is detainees in China
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday declined to comment on talks between the U.S. Justice Department and lawyers that could lead to the release of a senior Huawei curre...
Dec 04, 2020
Turkey records 32,736 daily coronavirus cases – ministry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 32,736 new coronavirus cases, including asymptomatic ones, over the past 24 hours, Health Ministry data showed on Friday. President Tayyip Erdogan announced new me...
Dec 04, 2020
New UK COVID cases rise to highest since November 26
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government reported the highest daily number of new COVID cases since Nov. 26 on Friday, after the number of new positive test reports rose to 16,298 from 14,879 the day b...
Dec 04, 2020
Biotech group to sue Trump administration over drug pricing plan: STAT news
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biotech pharmaceutical industry is filing a lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration over new U.S. rules to lower drug prices, STAT news reported citing a statemen...
Dec 04, 2020
Italy reports 814 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, 24,099 new cases
ROME, (Reuters) - - Italy reported 814 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, against a record 993 on Thursday, and 24,099 new infections, up from 23,225 the day before, the health ministry said. The f...
Dec 04, 2020
U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavi...
Dec 04, 2020
New EU-U.S. data transfer pact? Not any time soon, says EU privacy watchdog
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Companies hoping the EU and the new U.S. administration will soon strike a new transatlantic data transfer pact to replace one struck down by a court will probably...
Dec 04, 2020
Pompeo says violence levels in Afghanistan ‘unacceptably high’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The violence currently taking place in Afghanistan is 'unacceptably high', U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, adding that Washington has asked the warring parti...
Dec 04, 2020
War in Ethiopia’s Tigray wrenches families apart
By Seham Eloraby and Baz Ratner UM RAKUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Ethiopian farmer Gebrahid Welderfael said he last saw his wife and 18-year-old daughter in the sewer in his village in the Tigray region wh...
Dec 04, 2020
