Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Made homeless by record floods, tens of thousands of Sudanese wait for aid
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities and the United Nations are rolling out aid to tens of thousands who lost their homes in record Nile floods, but many of those camping out on roadsides and hig...
Sep 09, 2020
Pope warns against seeking political, economic gain from coronavirus
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday no one should seek economic or political gain from the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine developers should not see it merely a...
Sep 09, 2020
Russian police raid opposition group and its allies ahead of local elections
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police carried out searches on Wednesday at the Open Russia opposition group's office in Moscow and the homes of several opposition activists running in local elections this weekend...
Sep 09, 2020
Slovenia confirms the highest daily number of coronavirus cases
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia, which was the first European state to declare an end to the coronavirus pandemic in May, on Wednesday reported its the highest daily count of new infections since regis...
Sep 09, 2020
Australia revokes visas of two Chinese scholars
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has revoked the visas of two visiting Chinese academics in an apparent escalation of tension between the countries which has seen each accuse the other of in...
Sep 09, 2020
Investigators launched over 150 probes in French horse mutilations, killings spate
PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators have opened more than 150 probes into a spate of killings and mutilations of horses across France, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said on Wednesday. "We have a...
Sep 09, 2020
Serum Institute says India trials of COVID-19 vaccine ongoing
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Serum Institute of India said on Wednesday that trials of AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country is ongoing and has not faced any issues. AstraZeneca said it...
Sep 09, 2020
CanSino Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial in Pakistan expected to begin this month
By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Falling COVID-19 infection numbers in Pakistan will not affect a Phase 3 clinical trial for a potential vaccine being developed by China's CanSino Biologics, which...
Sep 09, 2020
Nigerian charity tries to salvage a slum’s schooling amid pandemic
By Angela Ukomadu and Nneka Chile LAGOS (Reuters) - Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks two upturned buckets, places a handbag on top and rests a tablet against it. H...
Sep 09, 2020
AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial, rollout doubts dent shares
LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca has paused global trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness in a participant, denting the British drugmaker's shares on Wednesday as th...
Sep 09, 2020
