Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Explainer: The potential impact of Brexit without a trade deal
By Guy Faulconbridge and John Chalmers LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal, with failure likely to end with trade in chaos, mark...
Dec 06, 2020
Volkswagen CEO expects autonomous cars on market from 2025-2030
BERLIN (Reuters) - The chief executive of Volkswagen, the world's largest vehicle maker by sales, expects autonomous vehicles to be ready for sale between 2025 and 2030, he told a magazine. Herbert Di...
Dec 06, 2020
UK farming minister says EU talks will continue until no point doing so
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is prepared to keep negotiating with the European Union on a post-Brexit trade deal until there is no longer any point doing so, farming minister George Eustice said on Sund...
Dec 06, 2020
Australia bushfire threatens township on World Heritage-listed Fraser island
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Residents of a coastal township on Australia's World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached. Since it was sparked by an illegal ca...
Dec 06, 2020
Exclusive: Steinmetz to appear at Geneva trial next month to face corruption charges – lawyer
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz will appear in a Geneva court next month to defend himself against corruption and forgery charges in connection with mining c...
Dec 06, 2020
Venezuela votes for parliament as opposition denounces fraud
By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans on Sunday choose a new congress in an election that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to...
Dec 06, 2020
Directed radio frequency plausible cause of ‘Havana syndrome,’ U.S. government report finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Directed" radio frequency is the most plausible explanation for mysterious symptoms experienced by diplomats stationed in U.S. embassies in Havana and elsewhere, a U.S. governm...
Dec 05, 2020
Pfizer seeks emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccine in India, media say
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorization of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said on Sunday, the first to do so in a country with the world's second highest ...
Dec 05, 2020
Japan space probe carrying asteroid rocks lands in Australian outback
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe carrying the first extensive samples of an asteroid has completed its six-year mission, landing safely in the remote Australian outback, Japan's space agen...
Dec 05, 2020
S.Korea to consider new curbs as coronavirus cases hit 9-month high
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Sunday reported 631 new coronavirus cases, the highest in nine months, ahead of an expected government decision on whether to further tighten social dist...
Dec 05, 2020
