Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVAX aims to deliver one-third of a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses in H1 - GAVI
WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The COVAX vaccine sharing facility aims to deliver one third of a billion COVID-19 doses by mid-year, Seth Berkley, ceo of the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Friday. The p...
Apr 09, 2021
Olympic Gold: Men’s Gymnastics Struggling to Survive
By Will Graves The death of a 117-year-old program, one that captured championships and produced Olympians, ended with a gasp. And then a vote. The fact the former did not alter the outcome of the lat...
Apr 09, 2021
Biden budget's $14 billion hike for climate includes big boosts for EPA, science
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday proposed $14 billion in spending on initiatives to fight climate change in the 2022 budget, including large cash injections for environmental ...
Apr 09, 2021
Analysis: Investors keep faith in U.S. value stocks as tech roars back
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rebound in growth and technology stocks has investors gauging whether a months-long rally in the shares of banks, energy companies and other economically sens...
Apr 09, 2021
White House says J&J COVID-19 shot shipments to be low until U.S. vaccine plant cleared by regulators
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will ship relatively few COVID-19 shots around the United States until it receives regulatory clearance for a large vaccine plant in Baltimore that has struggled to meet ...
Apr 09, 2021
Judge drops corruption charges against Portugal's ex-PM Socrates
LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese judge on Friday dropped all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Jose Socrates who was arrested in 2014, but was yet to announce whether Socrates would stan...
Apr 09, 2021
POW-MIA flag back atop White House, reversing Trump era decision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Friday restored a flag honoring missing war veterans atop the White House after his predecessor angered some veterans by moving it l...
Apr 09, 2021
Britain says 31.9 million people given COVID vaccination
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it had given 545,511 COVID vaccine doses on April 8, the highest daily total since April 1, while a further 60 people had died within 28 days of a positive te...
Apr 09, 2021
World Bank says to commit $2 billion to vaccines in developing countries by end-April
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank Group will have committed $2 billion in financing by the end of April for vaccine purchases, development and manufacturing and is working with more than 40 countr...
Apr 09, 2021
Peru braces for 'most fragmented election in history' as pandemic grips
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will vote for a new president on Sunday in a wide-open election framed by a deadly surge in coronavirus cases, and under the long shadow of a constitutional crisi...
Apr 09, 2021
