Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
After surviving wars, pestilence, religions use technology to beat pandemic
By Angela Moore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Throw a global pandemic at the world's religions, and you get confessions via Skype, virtual seders and recitations of the Koran over Facebook. The world's three l...
May 12, 2020
Pandemic complicates California election to replace U.S. House member who quit after sex scandal
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats will try to hold on to a hotly contested congressional seat in California on Tuesday in a special election that could provide clues about which party...
May 12, 2020
UK to set out details on making workplaces safer as lockdown unwind begins
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will on Tuesday set out details on how to make workplaces safer as some businesses start to return to work after Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a cautio...
May 12, 2020
Gunmen attack Doctors Without Borders clinic in Kabul: interior ministry source
KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic in the western part of the Afghan capital of Kabul, a Ministry of Interior source said on Tuesday. "A hospital belonging to D...
May 12, 2020
South Korea investigators comb digital data to trace club coronavirus cluster
By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data, credit card statements and CCTV footage on Tuesday to identify people who visited nightc...
May 12, 2020
Overloaded ventilator fire kills five coronavirus patients in Russia: media
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies reported. Russ...
May 12, 2020
Asia’s pandemic stimulus may slow the demise of coal
By Joe Brock SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Coal power plant construction will push ahead in Asia despite falling electricity demand and environmental concerns as policymakers prioritise boosting economies cri...
May 12, 2020
Fauci says reopening U.S. economy too soon could lead to needless deaths: NYT
(Reuters) - A senior U.S. health official set to testify on Tuesday before the U.S. Senate will warn about the risks of reopening the economy too soon, saying it could lead to "needless suffering and ...
May 11, 2020
Montana judge upholds ruling that canceled Keystone XL pipeline permit
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Montana on Monday upheld his ruling last month that canceled an environmental permit for the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline and thre...
May 11, 2020
Asian stocks set to fall on growing second virus wave fears
By Herbert Lash and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian equities and oil prices were set to slip on Tuesday amid growing investor worries about a second wave of coronavirus infections after the ...
May 11, 2020
