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How a $13 device is helping Delhi fight the coronavirus
By Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Twice a day, New Delhi health worker Kamal Kumari receives a flurry of WhatsApp messages from coronavirus patients, containing either a two-digit reading from ...
Aug 31, 2020
Scientists see downsides to top COVID-19 vaccines from Russia, China
By Allison Martell and Julie Steenhuysen TORONTO/CHICAGO (Reuters) - High-profile COVID-19 vaccines developed in Russia and China share a potential shortcoming: They are based on a common cold virus t...
Aug 31, 2020
Explainer: How common cold viruses are being used in vaccines from Russia, China
By Allison Martell and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - The modified common cold viruses behind high-profile COVID-19 vaccine candidates from China's CanSino Biologics and Russia's Gamaleya Institute hav...
Aug 31, 2020
Japan’s tripling of coronavirus tests unlikely to improve fight, experts say
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's plan to more than triple its coronavirus testing is unlikely to improve its fight against the outbreak without an overhaul in the test approval process, which ...
Aug 31, 2020
Kremlin says situation in Belarus is under control, no need to send forces
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that the situation in neighboring Belarus was under control and that it did not see the need to send in forces to support Belarusian leader Alexander Luka...
Aug 31, 2020
Japan’s Toshimaen amusement park closes after 94 years, to make way for Harry Potter
TOKYO (Reuters) - A popular Tokyo amusement park on Monday closed its doors for the last time after being in business for more than nine decades, with part of the site set to make way for a "Harry Pot...
Aug 31, 2020
Prominent Indian lawyer found guilty of contempt, fined one rupee
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Monday imposed a symbolic fine of one rupee ($0.0136) on a prominent lawyer found guilty of criminal contempt for posts on Twitter that were critical of seni...
Aug 31, 2020
Sudan signs historic peace deal with five rebel groups
JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's government signed a peace agreement with the country's five key rebel groups on Monday, a significant step in the transitional leadership's goal of resolving multiple, deep-ro...
Aug 31, 2020
Baltic states to hit Lukashenko, other Belarus officials with sanctions
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will announce travel sanctions on about 30 Belarus officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko, later on Monday, Lithuanian President Gitanas ...
Aug 31, 2020
Ex-Japan defence chief mum on whether he’ll join PM race
By Antoni Slodkowski and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former defence minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday declined to say if would run in the ruling party leadership race to succeed Pri...
Aug 31, 2020
