Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Saudi, Russia seek to finalise oil cuts in G20 talks, want U.S. involved
By Rania El Gamal and Vladimir Soldatkin DUBAI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, Russia and their allies will press Mexico on Friday to join an accord for collective oil production cuts equivalent to 1...
Apr 10, 2020
Easter season goes virtual as coronavirus locks out tradition
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - One Catholic priest in rural coastal Ireland delivered socially-distanced blessings from a moving vintage "popemobile". Another in Germany taped pictures of...
Apr 10, 2020
U.S. health expert Fauci: ‘Now is no time to back off’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease expert warned on Friday that even though hard-hit spots like New York are showing positive results in the battle against coronavirus, it is too e...
Apr 10, 2020
South Korea reports recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again
By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the...
Apr 10, 2020
On Russian border, China scrambles to contain coronavirus influx
By Yew Lun Tian and Lusha Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) - A small Chinese city on the border with Russia is mounting an increasingly urgent defence against a surge of new coronavirus cases even as crowds re...
Apr 10, 2020
Some defiant U.S. churches plan Easter services, ignoring public health guidelines
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A handful of holdout U.S. churches plan to hold in-person services on Easter Sunday, saying their right to worship in person outweighs public health officials' warnings again...
Apr 10, 2020
Coronavirus forces Americans to find Easter fun at least 6 feet apart
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Easter is a special holiday for 6-year-old Nora Heddendorf. It's a day when she loves to get dolled up in a fancy dress and shiny shoes, and have fun with fami...
Apr 10, 2020
Airbus shelves plan to add new A321 assembly line
PARIS/TOULOUSE (Reuters) - Airbus has shelved plans to create a new assembly line in Toulouse, France, for its A321 airliner as the company wrestles with the coronavirus crisis. Airbus announced plans...
Apr 10, 2020
Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll increase eases again
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The number of people dying of coronavirus in Spain each day fell again on Friday as the country registered 605 fatalities over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said. The ov...
Apr 10, 2020
Explosion rocks Valero Meraux, Louisiana, refinery: local TV
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An early morning explosion rocked Valero Energy Corp's 125,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Meraux, Louisiana, refinery on the east side of New Orleans, a New Orleans television station re...
Apr 10, 2020
