Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Lebanon's COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors
By Maha El Dahan and Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - COVID-19 patients wait on pavements outside hospitals in Beirut, where emergency rooms are packed and intensive care beds full. Inside, exhausted ...
Jan 18, 2021
U.S. and China clash at WHO over scientific mission in Wuhan
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview "care givers, former patients and lab workers" in the centr...
Jan 18, 2021
U.S. Capitol on lockdown - Reuters witness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Capitol complex is on lockdown, with no entry or exit allowed due to an external security threat and people inside being forced to shelter in place, according to a Reut...
Jan 18, 2021
Mexican president says U.S. gets Mexico stance on ex-defence chief
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Monday the U.S. government understood his administration's stance on the case of ex-defence minister Salvador Cienfuegos, who Mexico decided not to p...
Jan 18, 2021
Peru's Keiko Fujimori says would pardon father if elected president
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori plans to pardon her father, Alberto Fujimori, a controversial former leader who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for...
Jan 18, 2021
Michelin guide offers crumb of comfort to France's COVID-hit chefs
PARIS (Reuters) - French chef Sylvain Sendra's restaurant has been closed for months, and his employees are on furlough, but on Monday he received a morsel of good news: his restaurant had kept its st...
Jan 18, 2021
Violence flares for third day in Sudan's Darfur
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Militia fighters staged a deadly attack in Sudan's Darfur on Monday, residents said, as doctors said the death toll from a separate attack that began two days earlier in the regio...
Jan 18, 2021
Spain's elderly get second COVID-19 shot, court OKs jab for incapacitated woman
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has begun administering second shots of the coronavirus vaccine to elderly nursing home residents, while a court in Seville ruled on Monday that a home could inoculate an inca...
Jan 18, 2021
Still playing: Bills, Bucs risen from Super Bowl droughts
By: Barry Wilner In the 1990s, the Bills buffaloed their way to four successive - if not successful - Super Bowls. No other franchise has managed that. About a decade later, the long-downtrodden Bucca...
Jan 18, 2021
Couche-Tard CEO would love second shot at Carrefour deal
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Alimentation Couche-Tard would revive its $20 billion bid for France's Carrefour if the Canadian convenience store operator saw a change in the French government's stance on the p...
Jan 18, 2021
