Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
UK records 3,497 more confirmed cases of COVID-19
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom reported 3,497 confirmed new cases of COVID-19, according to government data published on Saturday, compared with 3,539 a day earlier. It also reported a further ...
Sep 12, 2020
Myanmar residents barricade city streets as coronavirus cases rise
By Zaw Naing Oo YANGON (Reuters) - Some residents of Myanmar's biggest city used pieces of wood and corrugated iron to make barricades around their neighbourhoods late on Friday, trying to keep out CO...
Sep 12, 2020
Pfizer, BioNTech propose expanding COVID-19 vaccine trial to 44,000 volunteers
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have proposed to the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the enrollment of their Phase 3 pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial to up to about 44,000 partic...
Sep 12, 2020
Europe should take more minors from Moria migrant camp: Germany’s Scholz
BERLIN (Reuters) - Plans by European countries to take some 400 unaccompanied children from the burned down Moria refugee camp in Greece should mark just the beginning of their efforts, German Vice Ch...
Sep 12, 2020
Pakistani police release journalist accused of defaming army
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police released a local journalist accused of defaming the military on Saturday as a court reprimanded the police for overstepping their mandate, a lawyer for j...
Sep 12, 2020
Astrazeneca says trials of COVID vaccine resuming
LONDON (Reuters) - British clinical trials for the AstraZeneca and Oxford University coronavirus vaccine have resumed following confirmation by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it...
Sep 12, 2020
UK counter-terrorism police arrest man over London package
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said counter-terrorism officers arrested a man on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to cause an explosion over a package sent to an address in north London earlier ...
Sep 12, 2020
Delhi city lawmakers summon Facebook India chief over February riots
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A panel of local lawmakers in New Delhi have summoned Facebook's top executive in India to answer allegations that it did not properly apply hate speech rules and policies, which...
Sep 12, 2020
Belarus police detain people during protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus police detained at least six people on Saturday at the beginning of an anti-government protest in the capital Minsk, Reuters witnesses reported. Hundreds of women gathered i...
Sep 12, 2020
Ambulance hits landmine in southern Mali, killing six
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Six civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed in southern Mali when the ambulance they were travelling in struck a landmine, the health ministry said on Saturday. It was no...
Sep 12, 2020
