Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Divisive Trump nominee gets new Pentagon post, despite snub by Congress
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After failing to secure a Senate confirmation hearing, U.S. President Donald Trump's most divisive nominee for a Pentagon position so far has taken a different, ...
Aug 02, 2020
Asia stocks off to cautious start, dollar nurses scars
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares and the dollar made a cautious start to the new month on Monday as U.S. lawmakers struggled to hammer out a new stimulus plan and a global surge of new co...
Aug 02, 2020
Exclusive: Trump to give TikTok’s Chinese owner 45 days to reach deal to sell – sources
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to give China's ByteDance 45 days to negotiate a sale of popular short-video app TikTok to Microsoft Corp, two people familiar with the matter said o...
Aug 02, 2020
Microsoft to continue talks to buy TikTok from ByteDance
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Sunday that it would continue discussions to acquire popular short-video app TikTok from Chinese internet giant ByteDance, and that it was aiming to conclude the neg...
Aug 02, 2020
Britain to roll out millions of 90-minute coronavirus tests
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of COVID-19 tests able to detect the virus within 90 minutes will be rolled out to British hospitals, care homes and laboratories to boost capacity in the coming months, th...
Aug 02, 2020
Samsung crafts India comeback as anti-China wave surges
By Sankalp Phartiyal and Heekyong Yang NEW DELHI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is forging a comeback in India's smartphone market with a new range of budget devices and a ramped-up onli...
Aug 02, 2020
Marathon Petroleum sells Speedway to 7-Eleven owner for $21 billion
(Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp sold its Speedway gas station network to 7-Eleven Inc, a subsidiary of Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co , for $21 billion in an all-cash deal, the companies said on Su...
Aug 02, 2020
Australia’s Melbourne braces for closures, losses as it emerges from night-time curfew
(Reuters) - Australia's second-most populous city Melbourne emerged on Monday from its first night-time curfew to contain the spread of a resurgent coronavirus, as residents braced for further closure...
Aug 02, 2020
Israeli army says hits squad placing explosives along Syria frontier
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army on Monday said it had fired at and hit a group of militants placing explosives along the border fence with Syria on the Golan Heights. Soldiers spotted the group...
Aug 02, 2020
Relief, NeuroRx say emergency treatment with RLF-100 helps critically ill Covid patients
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Critically ill COVID-19 patients recovered rapidly from respiratory failure after three days of treatment with RLF-100, a therapy granted fast-track designation in the United Stat...
Aug 02, 2020
