Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. shale bust slams rural economies as oil checks shrivel
By Jennifer Hiller DeWITT COUNTY, Texas (Reuters) - Royalties from oil pumped on Paul Ruckman's land allowed the South Texas retiree to build a six-bedroom, seven-bathroom vacation home. He had plenty...
May 22, 2020
Oxford, Astra COVID-19 vaccine candidate to move to larger human trials
(Reuters) - The University of Oxford on Friday started recruiting volunteers for a much larger clinical trial in the UK of its potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed with AstraZeneca. (https://bit...
May 22, 2020
Yemen’s health system ‘has in effect collapsed’ as COVID spreads: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen, where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. Re...
May 22, 2020
Iran’s Khamenei says Israel is a ‘cancerous tumor’ in Middle East
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Palestinians on Friday to continue their uprising against Israel, suggesting the Israeli government was a "tumor" that should b...
May 22, 2020
Exclusive: UK risks slow COVID recovery, all stimulus options under review – BoE’s Ramsden
By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy could be facing a slower recovery from its deep coronavirus slump than the Bank of England suggested this month and all sti...
May 22, 2020
Argentina to amend $65 billion debt offer, talks on ‘positive’ course: minister
By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina is planning to amend its offer to creditors to restructure $65 billion in foreign debt, with talks on a positive course despite there being an "imp...
May 22, 2020
Full disclosure? Hedge funds navigate COVID health questions
By Maiya Keidan and Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - As the hedge funds once clustered in London's Mayfair negotiate gyrating markets, they are facing a new line of investor questioning: who has cont...
May 22, 2020
Rudderless after a rally, stock markets look for next catalyst
By Saikat Chatterjee, Sujata Rao and Megan Davies LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets have shuffled up about 1% this month despite the world starting to re-open after the coronavirus-dri...
May 22, 2020
How South Korea turned an urban planning system into a virus tracking database
By Hyonhee Shin, Hyunjoo Jin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - When a man in Seoul tested positive for the new coronavirus in May, South Korean authorities were able to confirm his wide-ranging movemen...
May 21, 2020
North Korea’s Kim keeps low public profile in May: analysts
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made an unusually small number of public appearances in the past two months, once again going three weeks without state media report...
May 21, 2020
