Author Archives: Syndicated Content
EU’s Michel invites Biden to ‘rebuild’ trans-Atlantic alliance
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A top European Union official, in a phone call with Joe Biden on Monday, invited the U.S. president-elect to rebuild "a strong trans-Atlantic alliance" and attend a meeting with t...
Nov 23, 2020
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says Houthi attack on Jeddah petroleum products station targets global energy security: SPA
CAIRO (Reuters) - The spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Monday that Iran-aligned Houthis have been implicated in an attack at a fuel tank at a petroleum products distribut...
Nov 23, 2020
Congo warlord sentenced to life for war crimes
By Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A military court handed a life sentence on Monday to militia commander Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka for war crimes including murder, sexual slavery and child soldier r...
Nov 23, 2020
Vodafone hit by three-hour mobile network outage in Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Vodafone said on Monday that operations on its German mobile network were returning to normal after the failure of control equipment caused a widespread outage lasting more than thr...
Nov 23, 2020
U.S. House committee chairman urges GSA to allow presidential transition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal on Monday urged the administrator of the General Services Administration to begin the presidential transition process f...
Nov 23, 2020
AstraZeneca vaccine can be up to 90% effective; COVID-19 reinfection unlikely for at least six months
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Nov 23, 2020
Drip by drip, U.S. Republicans slowly break from Trump election claims
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More prominent Republicans on Monday joined the call for President Donald Trump to end efforts to overturn his election defeat and allow President-elect Joe...
Nov 23, 2020
Dutch populist Baudet steps down before election over party members’ racist slurs
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politician Thierry Baudet, leader of the anti-immigration Forum for Democracy, said on Monday he will step down ahead of a parliamentary election in March following allegat...
Nov 23, 2020
Decades of work, and half a dose of fortune, drove Oxford vaccine success
By Alistair Smout, Kate Kelland and Ludwig Burger LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - It took Oxford University's brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In ...
Nov 23, 2020
Jordan’s king expresses to U.S. President-elect Biden keenness to continue strategic partnership: tweet
CAIRO (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdulllah expressed in a phone call on Monday with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden "keenness to continue bolstering the strategic partnership between the two countries t...
Nov 23, 2020
