Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Biden's pledges could spur more migration. But in a pandemic, the border is unprepared
By Mimi Dwyer, Ted Hesson and Laura Gottesdiener LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoro...
Dec 15, 2020
Fresh off Electoral College win, Biden to stump in Georgia for Democratic Senate candidates
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A day after the Electoral College confirmed his presidential victory, Joe Biden will travel to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for two Democratic U.S. Senate candidates whose J...
Dec 15, 2020
Germany hopes to start COVID-19 vaccination before year-end -health minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's health minister said on Tuesday he hopes that a COVID-19 vaccine will get European Union approval before Christmas and that first inoculations can start before the end of ...
Dec 15, 2020
Schoolchildren can miss end of term to isolate before Christmas, says French PM
PARIS (Reuters) - French schoolchildren will be allowed to skip classes and stay at home on Thursday and Friday if their families wish to self-isolate ahead of Christmas, Prime Minister Jean Castex sa...
Dec 15, 2020
European regulator to recommend COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 23 - source
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is set to issue a positive verdict on the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Dec. 23, a German government so...
Dec 15, 2020
After 60 years, East Jerusalem Palestinians face eviction under Israeli settler rulings
By Suheir Sheikh and Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) - For Nabil al-Kurd, being forced out of the East Jerusalem home he has lived in since the 1950s would be a fate worse than death. But the 76-year-o...
Dec 15, 2020
UK's Christmas plans will cost many lives, say top health journals
LONDON (Reuters) - Two of Britain's most influential journals for healthcare and medical professionals jointly called on the government on Tuesday to scrap plans to relax COVID-19 restrictions for fiv...
Dec 15, 2020
New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations, scientists say
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations...
Dec 15, 2020
European regulator to approve COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 23 - Bild
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is aiming to approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Dec. 23, German newspaper Bild reported on Tuesday, citing governme...
Dec 15, 2020
Bosnian presidency members snub Russia's 'disrespectful' Lavrov
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The Croat and Muslim Bosniak members of Bosnia's inter-ethnic three-man presidency declined on Tuesday to meet Russia's visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
Dec 15, 2020
