Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Swimming: Peaty ahead of schedule for Olympics after another 100m blast
LONDON (Reuters) - World record holder Adam Peaty declared himself ahead of schedule for the Tokyo Olympics after swimming the fastest 100m breaststroke of the year at the British selection trials in ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
CBS News executive Kimberly Godwin to lead ABC News
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - CBS News executive Kimberly Godwin has been named as president of Walt Disney Co's ABC News, the media company said on Wednesday. Godwin will join ABC News in early May, re...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Venezuela's seeking of specific vaccines will slow inoculation, Guaido says
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is risking further delays to an already stalled COVID-19 vaccination campaign by seeking to use specific brands of vaccines while shunning readily available ones, opposit...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Moderna discusses COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing with Nexus Pharmaceuticals: sources
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moderna Inc, looking to boost production of its COVID-19 vaccine, met with Nexus Pharmaceuticals to discuss manufacturing the shot at the company's new plant in ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Olympics: Coxsey up to speed and set to scale heights in Tokyo
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Shauna Coxsey admits her first serious attempt at speed climbing left her thinking that the Olympics were not for her after all. As a child she fell in love with le...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Olympics: Russia unveils flagless uniforms for Tokyo Games
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian competitors at this year's Tokyo Olympics will be wearing blue, red and white uniforms, but their country's tricolour flag will not appear because of doping sanctions. ZASPO...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
U.S. says indirect nuclear talks with Iran to resume on Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Iran will reconvene indirect talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal on Thursday in Vienna, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. There...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Mexico reports 5,113 new coronavirus cases, 518 more deaths
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government reported 5,113 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 518 more fatalities, according to data from the health ministry on Wednesday, bringing the country's tota...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Rocket hits near Erbil airport in northern Iraq -Kurdish security officials
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A rocket landed near Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, Kurdish security officials said in a statement, with no immediate reports of casualties. Witnesses ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
Battle-hardened and better funded, Ukraine's army knocks on NATO's door
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) - At the outbreak of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Ukrainian army was so poorly equipped that ordinary citizens were knitting socks, donat...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2021
