Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Historic U.S. COVID vaccine campaign launches with convoy of trucks
By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - Tractor trailers loaded with suitcase-sized containers of COVID-19 vaccine will leave Pfizer Inc's manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday morning - laun...
Dec 12, 2020
After fires, Australia gets ready for floods
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Just days after bushfires threatened an Australian World Heritage site, thousands were bracing for floods on the subtropical east coast on Sunday, with beaches closed and the author...
Dec 12, 2020
Malaysia’s Top Glove fired whistleblower before virus outbreak
By Liz Lee and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Yubaraj Khadka, a worker in Malaysia for Top Glove Corp, took two photos in May of fellow employees crowding into a factory of the world's big...
Dec 12, 2020
Deadlock as Brexit trade deal faces make-or-break day
By John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) - London and Brussels face a make-or-break decision on an elusive trade agreement on Sunday, after a week of tension and deadlock that left a tumultuous 'no deal' e...
Dec 12, 2020
Pfizer says first COVID-19 vaccine supplies being prepared to ship from Michigan site
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Saturday that the first COVID-19 vaccine supplies are being prepared to ship from the company's Kalamazoo, Michigan site. They will be distributed by the U.S. Department...
Dec 12, 2020
Venezuela’s opposition concludes ‘popular consultation’ to reject Maduro
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition, led by Juan Guaido, on Saturday concluded a "popular consultation" to repudiate President Nicolas Maduro's government after boycotting a congressional vote ...
Dec 12, 2020
Country singer Charley Pride dead from coronavirus at 86
NEW YORK (Reuters) - African-American country singer Charley Pride, whose No. 1 country hits included "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" and "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin,'" died on Saturday at age 86 of ...
Dec 12, 2020
U.N. chief calls for more climate finance for poor nations as 2020 goal slips
By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rich nations are "lagging badly" on a longstanding pledge to channel $100 billion a year in funding, from 2020 onwards, to help poorer countri...
Dec 12, 2020
EU’s trade deal offer to Britain ‘remains unacceptable’: UK source
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks between Britain and the European Union on a post-Brexit trade deal will continue overnight but London believes the current offer from the EU remains unacceptable, a British go...
Dec 12, 2020
Twitter says it ‘inadvertently’ limited engagements on Trump’s flagged tweets
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had "inadvertently" limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets with "disputed" labels but later revers...
Dec 12, 2020
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