Author Archives: Syndicated Content
India seeks up to 500 million coronavirus vaccine doses by July
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India hopes to receive up to 500 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by July to inoculate about 250 million people, health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday, as infections i...
Oct 04, 2020
Ethiopia’s Oromo celebrate tense thanksgiving amid tight security
By Dawit Endeshaw BISHOFTU, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Thousands of people from the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, celebrated their thanksgiving festival in Bishoftu city amid tight security on Sun...
Oct 04, 2020
Teenager Swiatek bundles top seed Halep out of French Open
PARIS (Reuters) - Romanian Simona Halep, the women's top seed, crashed out of the French Open on Sunday, losing 6-1 6-2 to Poland's Iga Swiatek in the fourth round. The 19-year-old Swiatek, ranked 54t...
Oct 04, 2020
Federer, Serena confirmed for Australian Open, says Tiley
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer and Serena Williams have confirmed they will take part in the 2021 Australian Open, with the year's first Grand Slam in Melbourne expected to allow fans to fill up ...
Oct 04, 2020
Pope says free market, ‘trickle-down’ policies fail society
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and "trickle-down" economic policies had fail...
Oct 04, 2020
Biden leads by 10 points as majority of Americans say Trump could have avoided coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the U.S. presidential race after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, and a majority o...
Oct 04, 2020
Shorthanded U.S. Supreme Court returns with major challenges ahead
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term on Monday buffeted by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Senate confirmation battle ove...
Oct 04, 2020
Malaysia reports 293 new coronavirus cases; no new deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 293 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking its total number of infections to 12,381. Fatalities remained at 137, with no new deaths recorded. Malaysia has s...
Oct 04, 2020
UK’s Johnson sees bumpy COVID winter, but radical changes by spring
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he expected the next few months of the COVID-19 pandemic to be bumpy, but that things would look radically different in the sprin...
Oct 04, 2020
UK’s Johnson says he doesn’t want no-deal Brexit but can live with it
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he did not particularly wish for the Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal being in place, but that Britain co...
Oct 04, 2020
