Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Japanese researchers trial early warning test for acute COVID-19 cases
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have developed a blood test they say appears to serve as an early warning system for serious cases of COVID-19, and deployed 500 prototype machine...
Sep 25, 2020
Rescue of stranded whales in Australia enters final days
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers were trying to save the few remaining long-finned pilot whales still floundering in shallow waters off the Australian coast on Friday in one of the world's biggest mass wha...
Sep 25, 2020
World’s youth rallies against climate change
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied across the world on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their ...
Sep 25, 2020
Frustrated Australian climate activist juggles school and a lawsuit
By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian school student Ambrose Hayes, 15, rode on a protest barge in Sydney Harbour on Friday holding a huge yellow banner demanding "No Gas" as part of a global c...
Sep 25, 2020
New York stays ahead of London in top financial centres survey
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - New York retained the top spot in a survey of global financial centres on Friday, with London strengthening its position in second place just over three months before B...
Sep 25, 2020
Exclusive: AstraZeneca gets partial immunity in low-cost EU vaccine deal
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European governments will pay claims above an agreed limit against AstraZeneca over side-effects from its potential COVID-19 vaccine, under different terms ...
Sep 25, 2020
North Korea regrets killing South Korean to control coronavirus
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea expressed regret on Friday over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the coronavirus, the South's national security advis...
Sep 25, 2020
GM energises China line-up with electric micro car
By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - When 32-year-old photographer Jaco Xu needed a run-around car for work in the eastern city of Hangzhou, the price tag on the latest micro EV from GM's C...
Sep 25, 2020
Justice Department asks judge to allow U.S. to bar WeChat from U.S. app stores
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department early Friday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to allow the government to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering WeChat for download i...
Sep 25, 2020
‘Smoke with freedom’: Mexicans get high in marijuana garden outside Senate
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cannabis 'garden' sprouting next to Mexico's Senate building has become a smoker's paradise, with Mexican stoners lighting up joints without fear of arrest. The cannabis seed...
Sep 25, 2020
