Author Archives: Syndicated Content
World Health Organization lists Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use
By Reuters Staff ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Thursday listed the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use, saying the move opens the door for countries to ex...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. CDC reports record 3,764 coronavirus deaths in a day
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 341,199 deaths from the new coronavirus, a record rise of 3,764 deaths from its previous count. The agency sa...
Dec 31, 2020
Perdue in quarantine after COVID-19 contact just days before Senate runoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Perdue, one of two Republican U.S. senators facing a runoff election next week, is quarantining after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, his ...
Dec 31, 2020
Slovakia tightens lockdown on New Year's Eve as hospitals fill
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Slovak government ordered ski resorts and hotels closed and banned travel between districts at an emergency session on New Year's Eve after new coronavirus cases hit record high...
Dec 31, 2020
Colombia's FARC delivers a fraction of pledged peace deal assets by deadline
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's demobilized FARC guerrillas have delivered just a fraction of the assets they had pledged to compensate conflict victims in the four years since they ...
Dec 31, 2020
Peruvian president 'deplores' two deaths in farm workers protest, vows to sanction police
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's President Francisco Sagasti has vowed tough action against police after two people, including a teenager, were killed during protests by farm workers over a new controversial a...
Dec 31, 2020
Exclusive-Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk
By Michael Erman and Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc plan to raise U.S. prices on more than 300 drugs in the United States on Ja...
Dec 31, 2020
Twenty die in Algeria road accident
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Twenty people, mostly African nationals, died on Thursday when a vehicle carrying them overturned in southern Algeria, the civil protection agency said. Eleven people aboard the ve...
Dec 31, 2020
Brazil's Fiocruz to seek emergency use of British COVID-19 vaccine
By Anthony Boadle and Sergio Queiroz BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Fiocruz biomedical center will request authorization for emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZenec...
Dec 31, 2020
Mexican pilots reject alternative cost plan in Aeromexico overhaul
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican pilots have rejected a cost-saving plan put forward by their own trade union amid talks aimed at agreeing how to restructure airline Grupo Aeromexico, the ASPA union sa...
Dec 31, 2020
