Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Lebanon mourns victims of devastating blast, searches for missing
By Samia Nakhoul and Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon mourned on Thursday the victims of the most powerful blast to hit the country that was already being crushed by an economic crisis, as res...
Aug 06, 2020
Human trials of coronavirus vaccine set to begin in Indonesia
By Stanley Widianto BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Human trials on a potential coronavirus vaccine are due to start in Indonesia next week as part of a collaboration between state-owned pharmaceutical...
Aug 06, 2020
Tests and mask for U.S. health chief on Taiwan visit
TAIPEI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and his delegation will have to be tested for the novel coronavirus before getting to Taiwan and again when they arrive, and th...
Aug 06, 2020
FDA lets NeuroRx, Relief Therapeutics test RLF-100 in COVID-19 patients
ZURICH (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted NeuroRx Inc Investigational New Drug (IND) permission to test RLF-100 (aviptadil) for inhaled use in patients with moderate and sev...
Aug 05, 2020
Two U.S. senators seek ban on collecting customer biometric data without consent
(Reuters) - Two U.S. senators are proposing legislation to prohibit private companies from collecting biometric data without consumers and employees' consent. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon...
Aug 05, 2020
Facebook purges ads for illegal wildlife in Southeast Asia as online trade surges
By Thu Thu Aung YANGON (Reuters) - An ad showing a civet cat cowering in a cage being offered for sale on Facebook was just one of hundreds that the social media giant has removed in a crackdown on So...
Aug 05, 2020
NBA team owners pledge $300 million over 10 years to Black empowerment
(Reuters) - National Basketball Association (NBA) team owners will contribute a total of $300 million over the next 10 years to a charitable foundation aimed at accelerating economic growth in the Bla...
Aug 05, 2020
‘Sheep without a shepherd’: Hong Kong churches torn by politics
By Yanni Chow HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Hong Kong's largely peaceful pro-democracy protests turned violent last summer, it drove a wedge through every section of society, dividing friends, families a...
Aug 05, 2020
Factbox: Coronavirus in U.S. Congress: 15 members have tested or been presumed positive
(Reuters) - At least 15 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate - eight Republicans and seven Democrats - have tested positive or are presumed to have had COVID-19 since the novel coro...
Aug 05, 2020
U.S. Republican congressman Rodney Davis says he has COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Rodney Davis said he tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, making him at least the 15th U.S. lawmaker to be infected or presumed to have the disease. Da...
Aug 05, 2020
