Category Archives: Syndicated
Brazil bars Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 help to indigenous villages
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government has not allowed Mdecins Sans Frontires to provide assistance to prevent and detect suspected cases of COVID-19 in seven villages of the Terena indigenous ...
Aug 20, 2020
U.S. says Maduro blocking Americans from leaving Venezuela
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blocking U.S. citizens in the country from leaving, rebuffing efforts by Washington to arrange humanitarian evacuation f...
Aug 20, 2020
Working from home raises questions about U.S. inequality: Fed panel
By Ann Saphir SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a shift that some experts believe exacerbates already deep inequalities in the U.S. economy, more Americans than ever are working from home, and many are lik...
Aug 20, 2020
Brazil coronavirus cases tops 3.5 million, fatalities exceed 112,000: health ministry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported 45,323 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,204 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday. Brazil ...
Aug 20, 2020
U.N. water rights expert questions Chile’s avocado and energy priorities
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday faced questioning by a United Nations water rights expert who suggested the government could be placing economic development over human rights t...
Aug 20, 2020
Progressive drop in COVID-19 cases in southern U.S. states, says CDC director
(Reuters) - Southern U.S. states, which were hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, are seeing a progressive drop in coronavirus cases, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
Aug 20, 2020
Indigenous protest over COVID-19 resumes on Brazilian grain highway
By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Thursday blocked a key Brazilian grain highway in the Amazon state of Para, the federal highway police said, resuming a protest that...
Aug 20, 2020
Arcturus CEO says in talks with a dozen countries for COVID-19 vaccine supply deals
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc is in discussions with about a dozen countries for supply deals of its coronavirus vaccine that is currently in early human testing, the ...
Aug 20, 2020
General Electric extends CEO Culp’s employment agreement
(Reuters) - General Electric Co said it has extended the employment agreement of Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Culp through August 2024. The company's board also approved a one-time equity performa...
Aug 20, 2020
U.S. outraged by killing of anti-government activists in Iraq: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was outraged by the assassination of civil society activists in Iraq and by attacks on protesters in Baghdad and Basra. "We urge th...
Aug 20, 2020
