Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Israel-UAE agreement important step for Middle East stability: Pompeo
VIENNA (Reuters) - The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomatic ties has been welcomed by the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. "It's a...
Aug 14, 2020
Spain shuts nightclubs to prevent coronavirus contagion
MADRID (Reuters) - All Spanish regions agreed to order the closure of nightclubs and to ban smoking in outdoor areas when keeping a safe distance is impossible, among other measures aimed at curbing a...
Aug 14, 2020
Special Report: Almost Home – COVID-19 ensnares elderly ICE detainee from Canada
By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - James Hill often told his family he just wanted to live moment to moment, like a Buddhist monk. He said it was the only way to survive 14 years in prison after b...
Aug 14, 2020
As COVID-19 cases rise in U.S., precious plasma donations lag
By Nick Brown August 14, (Reuters) - In late April, a coalition of New Mexico healthcare systems began asking local COVID-19 survivors to donate their plasma, the antibody-rich blood product used to h...
Aug 14, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. to make coronavirus strain for possible human challenge trials
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a cont...
Aug 14, 2020
Russian doctors wary of rapidly approved COVID-19 vaccine, survey shows
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A majority of Russian doctors would not feel comfortable being injected with Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine due to the lack of sufficient data about it and its super-fast approval, a...
Aug 14, 2020
EU reaches deal with AstraZeneca for at least 300 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it had reached a deal with British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca for the purchase of at least 300 million doses of its potential COVID-19 ...
Aug 14, 2020
Explainer: Who pays for Mauritius oil spill and how much?
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and triggering a state of "environment...
Aug 14, 2020
Lebanon alone must decide its own future, says Iran foreign minister
By Maher Chmaytelli BEIRUT (Reuters) - Only the Lebanese people and their representatives can decide the country's future, Iran's foreign minister said on a visit to Beirut on Friday, following the ma...
Aug 14, 2020
Explainer: How the coronavirus changed U.S. political conventions, perhaps forever
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being short-circuited by the coronavir...
Aug 14, 2020
