Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Canada to authorize Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine: CBC News
(Reuters) - Health Canada will announce the approval of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, CBC News reported, citing sources. The vaccine has already been authorized for use i...
Mar 05, 2021
Prosecutor asks for hearing on shelving case against Colombia's Uribe
By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general on Friday asked for a hearing to possibly shelve an investigation into former President and Senator Alvaro Uribe's involvement in al...
Mar 05, 2021
Exclusive: Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source says
By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective again...
Mar 05, 2021
VW says electric car production in Spain hinges on EU support
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish automaker SEAT's parent company Volkswagen wants a firm commitment from Brussels to support a potential project to manufacture electric cars in Spain, the Ge...
Mar 05, 2021
More than a quarter of lawmakers worldwide are women, but parity 50 years away
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - More than a quarter of lawmakers worldwide are women after the proportion inched higher in 2020, but progress is so slow that it will take 50 years at the present rate...
Mar 05, 2021
Seventeen tonnes of cannabis resin bound for Libya seized in Niger
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the spokesman for the West African n...
Mar 05, 2021
U.S. designates Ukraine's Kolomoyskyy over alleged corruption: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy has been designated as ineligible to enter the United States over alleged corruption, the State Department said on Friday. "Whi...
Mar 05, 2021
Biden beefs up White House staff, including Big Tech critic Wu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday rounded out his White House staff with a host of new appointments focused on COVID-19, criminal justice, the economy and other major issues, i...
Mar 05, 2021
Poland says cases of British virus variant are rising: minister
WARSAW (Reuters) - The British variant now accounts for 25% of the reported coronavirus cases in Poland, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday. Niedzielski also warned that next week the dai...
Mar 05, 2021
China's COVID-19 vaccine production capacity may cover 40% of population by mid-2021: disease control head
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines could be sufficient to supply enough doses for 40% of the population by mid-2021, the country's head of disease control authorities...
Mar 05, 2021
