Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
China planning new policies to take on ageing population: state media
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address its rapidly ageing population as part of its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan", state media reported on...
Nov 22, 2020
An heiress, a judge and a job: France’s Sarkozy goes on trial for corruption
By Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday accused of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling, one of several criminal investigations ...
Nov 22, 2020
Trump campaign says Sidney Powell not a member of legal team
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign issued a statement on Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made baseless allegations of voter fraud at a c...
Nov 22, 2020
Ice Bucket Challenge co-creator Patrick Quinn dies at age 37
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Patrick Quinn, whose personal battle with ALS helped power the Ice Bucket Challenge fundraising campaign, died on Sunday at age 37, seven years after his diagnosis, supporters ann...
Nov 22, 2020
CDC reports 255,076 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 12,028,081 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 184,591 cases from its previous count, and said that ...
Nov 22, 2020
Netanyahu urges no return to Iran nuclear deal
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent message to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, said on Sunday there should be no return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abando...
Nov 22, 2020
India says local COVID-19 vaccine final trials could end within two months
By Krishna N. Das and Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's health minister said on Sunday a locally-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate could complete its final trials in a month or two, raising ...
Nov 22, 2020
Biden inauguration will be scaled down amid COVID, aide says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a scaled-down version of the usual traditions that will not endanger Americans health amid the coronavirus pandemic, a top ...
Nov 22, 2020
G20 says it will strive for fair global access to COVID-19 vaccine
DUBAI (Reuters) - Leaders of the 20 biggest economies on Sunday vowed to spare no effort to supply COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to "all people", reflecting worries that the...
Nov 22, 2020
First Americans could get COVID-19 vaccine by December 11, top health official says
(Reuters) - The first Americans could receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Dec. 11, the chief scientific adviser for the U.S. government's vaccine program said on Sunday. "Within 24 hours from the ap...
Nov 22, 2020
