Category Archives: Syndicated
Queues form at Italian COVID-19 test centres as holidaymakers return
ROME (Reuters) - Travellers returning to Italy from Greece, Spain, Malta and Croatia lined up on Tuesday at centres across Rome to be tested for coronavirus after the health ministry imposed mandatory...
Aug 18, 2020
Volunteers brave risks to give Belarus protesters medical aid, food
By Andrei Makhovsky and Polina Nikolskaya MINSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) - When protests erupted after the disputed election in Belarus, Anna Koval transformed the office of the travel agency she runs in cent...
Aug 18, 2020
Canada’s Trudeau to tap Freeland as finance minister: media reports
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will tap Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist and his most trusted ally, to be his new finance minister after Bill Mor...
Aug 18, 2020
Brazil approves human trials for potential Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's health regulator Anvisa on Tuesday said it had approved stage 3 clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical subsidiar...
Aug 18, 2020
Oman moves foreign, finance ministers from Sultan’s remit in government revamp
DUBAI (Reuters) - Oman on Tuesday designated ministers of foreign affairs and finance, titles formerly held by the ruling Sultan, in a broad restructuring of its government administration, state TV sa...
Aug 18, 2020
Australia signs deal with AstraZeneca for possible COVID-19 vaccine
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has signed a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca to secure a potential COVID-19 vaccine, the Prime Minister said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of countri...
Aug 18, 2020
California hopes to avoid outages again during heat wave, prices hit records
(Reuters) - Power prices in the U.S. West soared to record highs for a second day during a brutal heat wave as California utilities urged consumers to keep conserving energy to avoid more rotating out...
Aug 18, 2020
France to make masks compulsory in most workplaces
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government plans to make wearing a mask compulsory in the vast majority of workplaces to try to stop a resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The labour ministry said the ne...
Aug 18, 2020
Sweden temporarily pulls its diplomats out of North Korea
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden said on Tuesday it had temporarily withdrawn all its diplomats from North Korea, where its embassy also represents the interests of the United States and several other nat...
Aug 18, 2020
Nokia says German court’s patent decision ‘a milestone’
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said on Tuesday it had reached a "patent milestone" as a German court ruled against the unauthorized use of its inventions b...
Aug 18, 2020
