Author Archives: Syndicated Content
World Cup winner Rapinoe opts out of NWSL fall series
(Reuters) - Two-times World Cup winner and OL Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe is opting out of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) fall series starting next month, the Washington-based franchise ...
Aug 28, 2020
Greece bans flights from Barcelona, extends COVID-19 travel restrictions
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will ban flights to and from Barcelona from Monday, health authorities said on Friday, as they extended most of the travel restrictions for foreign visitors by three weeks du...
Aug 28, 2020
Musk’s Neuralink venture promises to reveal a ‘working’ brain-computer device
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday is expected to detail its latest innovations for implanting minuscule computer chips in human b...
Aug 28, 2020
Spain reports 3,829 new coronavirus infections in past 24 hours
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain diagnosed 3,829 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday, down from a revised count of more than 6,000 the previous day. A cumulative ...
Aug 28, 2020
At least two students killed during exams in eastern Congo
By Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - At least two students and a teacher were killed and several other teachers kidnapped after a primary school holding exams was attacked ...
Aug 28, 2020
U.S. expected to reduce troops in Iraq by a third to about 3,500: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that had been expected after Pr...
Aug 28, 2020
Severe or fatal COVID-19 very rare in children, study finds
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Children and young people are far less likely than adults to get severe cases of COVID-19 infection, and death from the pandemic disease among children is exceptiona...
Aug 28, 2020
Henin sure Clijsters can cause trouble in New York
By Martyn Herman (Reuters) - Only one year separates the best two tennis players ever to come out of Belgium but one of them will be competing at her first Grand Slam since 2012 next week, aged 37, wh...
Aug 28, 2020
Peru, with world’s deadliest outbreak, readies to start vaccine tests
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinopharm and U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in September, researchers said, which should help the country ...
Aug 28, 2020
U.S. House panel announces contempt proceedings against Pompeo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee announced contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, citing his refusal to comply with a subpoena for record...
Aug 28, 2020
