Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
EU has reached deal with Moderna for supply of COVID-19 vaccine – source
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission has reached a deal with U.S. biotech firm Moderna for the supply of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, an EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. Last week Modern...
Nov 24, 2020
International donors meet to pledge billions in aid to Afghanistan
GENEVA (Reuters) - Dozens of nations began pledging billions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan at a conference in Geneva on Tuesday, hoping that peace negotiations recently begun between the governmen...
Nov 24, 2020
Defense grilling of Canada police witness in Huawei CFO’s U.S. extradition case continues
By Sarah Berman VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A police officer who denied asking Canadian border agents for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's phone and laptop passcodes on the day of her arrest tw...
Nov 24, 2020
Ford’s new CEO tackles warranty costs in bid to boost profit
By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Quality is once again Job One at Ford Motor Co. Taking a page from the automaker's ad slogan of the 1980s and '90s, Ford's new chief executive, Jim Farley, is aiming...
Nov 24, 2020
Biden forges ahead with building team after Trump clears way for transition
By Trevor Hunnicutt WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday began a new phase in his transition to the White House after the Trump administration gave the Democrat a...
Nov 24, 2020
China says pope’s remarks about “persecuted” Uighurs are groundless
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday dismissed Pope Francis's criticism of China's treatment of Muslim Uighurs as groundless. In a new book "Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better F...
Nov 24, 2020
Special Report: 50,000 COVID-19 deaths and rising. How Britain failed to stop the second wave
HALIFAX, England, Nov 24 (Reuters) - By Andrew MacAskill, Stephen Grey, Ryan McNeill, Steve Stecklow, Tommy Wilkes and Andrew R.C. Marshall HALIFAX, England, Nov 24 (Reuters) - On the doorstep of a te...
Nov 24, 2020
Analysis: Carbon pricing rises as world’s weapon of choice in climate fight
By Susanna Twidale and Kate Abnett LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world's biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on gran...
Nov 24, 2020
Suited avatars and digital offices: traders and bankers embrace VR
By Elizabeth Howcroft and Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) - Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for lone...
Nov 24, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell quarantined after jail staff member tests positive for COVID-19
(Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell has been quarantined after staff tested positive for coronavirus at the jail where she is awaiting trial on charges she aided late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abus...
Nov 24, 2020
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