Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Pandemic at the disco: the COVID outbreak that began in a French bar
By Caroline Pailliez QUIBERON, France (Reuters) - The Hacienda bar in this French seaside resort was heaving with Saturday night revellers: a crowd of people, beer glasses and smartphones in hand, mov...
Jul 31, 2020
Nasdaq futures jump as Big Tech booms during pandemic
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 index jumped nearly 1% on Friday as tech titans Apple, Amazon.com and Facebook managed to deliver impressive quarterly earning...
Jul 31, 2020
Hong Kong leader says election postponed, in blow to pro-democracy camp
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that elections for the city legislature will be postponed from Sept. 6 due to a spike in coronavirus cases, dealing a major blow to the...
Jul 31, 2020
The U.S. election is getting ugly – and investors are getting nervous
By David Randall and April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are increasingly preparing for the risk of a contested U.S. presidential election come the fall, worried that an ugly political situati...
Jul 31, 2020
Fauci to testify before U.S. House COVID-19 panel after being blocked by White House
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, will testify on Friday before a coronavirus subcommittee in Congress, weeks after President Donald Tru...
Jul 31, 2020
U.S. records nearly 25,000 coronavirus deaths in July
By Christine Chan and Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - U.S. coronavirus deaths rose by almost 25,000 in July and cases doubled in at least 18 states during the month, according to a Reuters tally, dealing a ...
Jul 31, 2020
Hurricane Isaias forecast to move near Florida over the weekend
(Reuters) - Atlantic hurricane Isaias is forecast to move near or east of the Florida peninsula on Saturday and Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory. The hurric...
Jul 31, 2020
Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Japan
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have agreed to supply Japan with 120 million doses of their mRNA-based vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus in the first half of 2021, the companies s...
Jul 31, 2020
Knowledge a ‘treasure’ for Italy’s oldest student, who graduates at 96
By Guglielmo Mangiapane and Antonio Parrinello PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - At 96, Giuseppe Paterno has faced many tests in life - childhood poverty, war and, more recently, the coronavirus pandemic. No...
Jul 31, 2020
Shocked Hong Kong in a new era under ‘white knuckle’ China grip
By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - For 23 years Hong Kong was an anomaly. A free and partially democratic city under Chinese rule, protected by a tradition of firm rule of law from the British col...
Jul 31, 2020
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