Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Hungary ties up close to 5 million vaccine dosages in EU scheme: PM Orban
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has ordered close to 5 million vaccine doses for the novel coronavirus under a European Union scheme to provide potential COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Viktor Orban to...
Aug 07, 2020
‘They killed us twice’: finding loved ones at last among Syria’s tortured dead
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Khalil Ashawi and Joseph Nasr AMMAN/IDLIB/BERLIN (Reuters) - Some families say it is better to know and mourn. Others say finally learning what happened is worse than dying the...
Aug 07, 2020
Cash-short U.S. biofuel industry cuts lobbying even as Iowa looms large in election
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.S. biofuel industry trade group said it has cut lobbying spending as the coronavirus pandemic has slammed members eager to press demands with President ...
Aug 07, 2020
Picking pennies: Dollar slump lifts U.S. bond returns for foreigners
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Saikat Chatterjee and Dhara Ranasinghe NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - A 10% decline in the value of the U.S. dollar since March has boosted returns for foreign investors in t...
Aug 07, 2020
Exclusive: BP poised to sell ‘stranded assets’ even if oil prices rally
By Ron Bousso and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON (Reuters) - BP is preparing to sell a large chunk of its oil and gas assets even if crude prices bounce back from the COVID-19 crash because it wants to inve...
Aug 06, 2020
U.S. job growth forecast to slow sharply in July as COVID-19 cases soar
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth likely slowed significantly in July amid a resurgence in new COVID-19 infections, which would provide the clearest evidence yet that the...
Aug 06, 2020
HK activist Joshua Wong files court challenge to 2019 poll disqualification
By Joyce Zhou and Carol Mang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong filed a court challenge on Friday against his disqualification from district polls, in a move which may ...
Aug 06, 2020
Sri Lanka president’s party wins two-third majority in parliament election
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's party and its allies won an overwhelming two-thirds majority in a parliament election, results released early Friday showed, giving him th...
Aug 06, 2020
Trump issues order to ban transactions with TikTok’s Chinese owner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order banning any transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the video-sharing app TikTok, starting i...
Aug 06, 2020
Japan to agree supply deal soon for AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine: Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will soon agree a supply deal for more than 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca Plc, Kyodo news agency reported on Frida...
Aug 06, 2020
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