Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he wants free trade agreement with U.S. in letter to Biden
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday wrote to newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden that he hoped the two countries would pursue a broad free trade agre...
Jan 20, 2021
Brazil registers 1,340 new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil on Wednesday registered 1,340 new coronavirus deaths, the health ministry said, bringing the total to 212,831. Brazil also registered 64,385 new cases of the disease,...
Jan 20, 2021
Oxford scientists preparing new vaccine versions to combat emerging strains – The Telegraph
(Reuters) - Oxford scientists are preparing to rapidly produce new versions of their vaccine to combat emerging Covid-19 variants from the UK, South Africa and Brazil, The Telegraph reported on Wednes...
Jan 20, 2021
Mexico’s president singles out Twitter employee for past opposition party work
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador singled out a local employee of Twitter on Wednesday and appeared to suggest his former connections to an opposition party could ...
Jan 20, 2021
Kinder Morgan beats profit estimates on higher natgas volume
(Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Inc reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday as demand for transporting natural gas picked up after a coronavirus-induced slump hurt volumes earlier in 2...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden’s push for more coronavirus aid to test his ‘honeymoon’ with U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday signaled a willingness to work with President Joe Biden on additional money to combat the coronavirus pandemic, th...
Jan 20, 2021
Daniel Smith appointed acting U.S. secretary of state
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daniel Smith, director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), has been appointed acting secretary of state following Joe Biden's swearing in as President, a White House officia...
Jan 20, 2021
South African virus variant may resist antibody drugs; Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine seems to work vs UK variant
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Jan 20, 2021
35.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 16.5 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 16,525,281 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 35,990,150 doses. ...
Jan 20, 2021
Police discover first cannabis farm in London financial district
LONDON (Reuters) - The first cannabis farm has been found in London's historic financial district, where office buildings have been emptied because of lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19, Brit...
Jan 20, 2021
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