Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Charpentier and Doudna win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wedn...
Oct 07, 2020
Iran fears regional war as fighting rages around Nagorno-Karabakh
By Nailia Bagirova and Nvard Hovhannisyan BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Iran's president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could trigger a reg...
Oct 07, 2020
September was the world’s hottest on record, EU climate change service says
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - Last month was the world's hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and...
Oct 07, 2020
Kuwait’s new crown prince is a security czar who shunned limelight
By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's crown prince in waiting, Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, is a forceful figure who steered clear of political battles and public roles and spent much of his...
Oct 07, 2020
Russia says it successfully tests hypersonic missile on Putin’s birthday
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully test launched a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile in the Barents Sea on Tuesday, a senior Russian commander told Vladimir Putin on the Russian leader's ...
Oct 07, 2020
Archbishop of Canterbury says Church’s child abuse failings are disgraceful
LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said on Wednesday it was shameful and disgraceful that the Church of England had failed to protect children from sexual predators within its ra...
Oct 07, 2020
China urges U.S. to drop ‘Cold War’ mentality
(Reuters) - China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating politi...
Oct 07, 2020
Fed’s appetite for further easing, higher inflation in focus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve last month signaled that interest rates are likely to stay at zero through 2023, vowing to wait on rate hikes until inflation reaches 2% and is set to rise moderat...
Oct 07, 2020
Q&A: Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?
By Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousa...
Oct 07, 2020
Defiant Trump in risky COVID-19 gambit weeks before U.S. election
By James Oliphant and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With polls showing him trailing Democrat Joe Biden with less than a month to go before the U.S. election, President Donald Trump appears to...
Oct 06, 2020
