Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Families of protesters killed in Colombia face long wait for justice
By Oliver Griffin SOACHA, Colombia (Reuters) - It has been a year since Carolina Hurtado rushed to a hospital morgue in Colombia's capital to identify the bloodied body of her older brother Cristhian,...
Sep 10, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines hold strong against Delta, protection waning in older adults
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three U.S. studies suggest COVID-19 vaccines offer strong protection against hospitalization and death, even in the face of the highly transmissible Delta vari...
Sep 10, 2021
Tennis-Raducanu's supersonic take off has British tennis in dreamland
By Martyn Herman (Reuters) - There have been a few false dawns for British women's tennis since Virginia Wade was famously serenaded by the Centre Court crowd after winning Wimbledon 44 years ago. Sin...
Sep 10, 2021
Italy warns against misuse of herpes drug as COVID-19 treatment
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's medicines agency AIFA warned on Friday against the misuse of an unlicensed antiviral drug as a COVID-19 therapy, calling it a potential danger to people's health. Regulators ...
Sep 10, 2021
Cricket-Fifth India-England test not cancelled due to IPL, says ECB CEO Harrison
(Reuters) - India not fielding a team for the final test against England had nothing to do with the rescheduled Indian Premier League (IPL) which left no room for the match to be postponed, England an...
Sep 10, 2021
Deadly unrest reported in Myanmar after opposition urges 'defensive war'
(Reuters) - At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between militias and Myanmar's ruling military, a witness and local media said on Friday, in the worst violence since opponents of the junta...
Sep 10, 2021
Soccer-South America comes out against idea of biennial World Cup
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) criticised the idea of a biennial World Cup on Friday, saying such plans were "highly unviable" and would put a "practically ...
Sep 10, 2021
Motor racing-Formula One considering stand-alone sprint races in 2022
MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Formula One could turn sprint races into stand-alone events next year with more points on offer and separate from Sunday's main grand prix, said motorsport managing director R...
Sep 10, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 cases average 136,000 per day, daily deaths above 1,000 - CDC director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States had an average of 136,000 COVID-19 cases, 11,750 hospitalizations and more than 1,000 deaths in its most recent seven-day period, U.S. Centers for Disease Cont...
Sep 10, 2021
Kremlin internet crackdown causing major outages as election looms
By Anton Zverev and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin's crackdown on websites linked to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny and on technology used to evade online bans are causin...
Sep 10, 2021
