Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Racing the virus: Why tweaking the vaccines won’t be simple
By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO (Reuters) - After developing and rolling out COVID-19 vaccines at record speed, drugmakers are already facing variants of the rapidly-evolving coronaviru...
Jan 28, 2021
In locked-down Lebanon, Tripoli protester killed in night of unrest
BEIRUT/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Lebanese man was killed in Tripoli on Thursday in clashes between security forces and protesters angry that a strict lockdown has left them with no means to survive the ec...
Jan 28, 2021
WHO warns “too early to ease up” from COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe
By 19 GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's European director Hans Kluge said on Thursday COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe remained too high, putting health services under severe str...
Jan 28, 2021
“No end in sight”: Portugal’s hospitals on brink as COVID cases surge
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira CASCAIS, Portugal (Reuters) - COVID-19 patient Joao Cordeiro has beaten the virus and is about to go home, and his children also made quick recoveries from the di...
Jan 28, 2021
Curbed by COVID, China’s Lunar New Year travel rush turns into trickle
BEIJING (Reuters) - As a lone worker in protective gear sprayed disinfectant outside Beijing Railway Station, a slow trickle of passengers wheeled suitcases into the entrance hall - marking the quiete...
Jan 28, 2021
Far-right gunman handed life sentence for killing German politician
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German court sentenced a far-right sympathiser to life imprisonment on Thursday for shooting dead a pro-immigration politician two years ago in a case that raised questions abo...
Jan 28, 2021
UK will review quarantine country list on Thursday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will review a list of countries affected by quarantine measures, senior minister Michael Gove said on Thursday, after the country announced plans for some travellers to have...
Jan 28, 2021
North Korea, U.S. should aim for initial nuclear freeze: South Korean PM
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea and the United States should seek an initial denuclearisation deal that includes a halt to the North's nuclear activity and a cut in its programme in exch...
Jan 28, 2021
Russian authorities target ally of Kremlin foe Navalny before jail appeal
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Thursday they had opened a criminal case into Leonid Volkov, a close ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, hours before a court was due to hear...
Jan 28, 2021
Polls shows Hong Kong residents’ distrust of Chinese vaccines
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong people are less trusting of Chinese novel coronavirus vaccines than those made in Europe and the United States, with fewer than 30% of people questioned in a survey fin...
Jan 28, 2021
