Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
UK risks twice-as-big second COVID wave without better testing, study finds
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a second wave of COVID-19 this winter twice as widespread as the initial outbreak if it reopens schools without a more effective test-and-trace system in place, accord...
Aug 04, 2020
Beijing threatens retaliation over U.S. actions against Chinese journalists
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it will retaliate if Washington continues what it described as hostile actions against Chinese journalists based in the United States. Chinese foreign ministr...
Aug 04, 2020
Isaias weakens into a tropical storm: U.S. NHC
(Reuters) - Isaias weakened into a tropical storm over eastern North Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday. Isaias, packing maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph), is locat...
Aug 04, 2020
Germany already dealing with second coronavirus wave: doctors’ union
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is already contending with a second wave of the coronavirus and risks squandering its early success by flouting social distancing rules, the head of the German doctors' unio...
Aug 04, 2020
Exclusive: U.N. staffer who complained of sexual assault appeals dismissal – documents
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A policy adviser fired by the U.N. agency fighting AIDS is appealing her dismissal for misconduct, saying she was actually sacked for reporting that she had been sexua...
Aug 04, 2020
Crisis-weary Lebanon braces for Hariri tribunal verdict
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanon's former Sunni leader Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, triggering regional upheaval, a U.N.-backed court trying four suspects ...
Aug 04, 2020
U.S. judge orders election boards to extend count of absentee ballots in New York state primary
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge late on Monday ordered all local boards of election in New York state to count "thousands" of absentee ballots received the day after a congressional primary held last June 23...
Aug 04, 2020
Lobbying for Russian pipeline spikes in Washington
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers plot to stop one of Moscow's most important projects in Europe, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, lobbyists supporting it are busier than ever but...
Aug 04, 2020
Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Southern North Carolina: U.S. NHC
(Reuters) - Atlantic hurricane Isaias has made landfall in Southern North Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday. Isaias, packing maximum sustained winds of 85 miles (140 km...
Aug 03, 2020
China will retaliate if Chinese journalists in U.S. forced out
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will take retaliatory measures should all Chinese journalists based in the United States be forced to leave the country, including targeting U.S. journalists in Hong Kong, G...
Aug 03, 2020
