Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere
By Ahmed Saeed NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built espec...
Sep 15, 2020
Steel prices to keep rising on industrial rebound; margins soft
By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) - Steel prices are set to keep rising in coming months as economies recover and demand picks up after being hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Many steel mills are resumi...
Sep 15, 2020
LEADING OFF: Blue Jays-Yanks, Padres go for 9th straight
A look at what's happening around the majors today: ___ PLAYOFF PURSUIT Second place in the AL East is up for grabs when Toronto opens a critical three-game series at Yankee Stadium. Cavan Biggio and ...
Sep 15, 2020
AstraZeneca resumes COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Africa, health dept says
By Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AstraZeneca has resumed COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Africa, more than a week after tests were paused due to serious side effects in a participant in Bri...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. judge approves revised EPA Harley-Davidson emissions settlement
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge late on Monday approved a revised settlement with Harley-Davidson Inc over excess emissions that dropped a requirement that it spend $3 million ...
Sep 15, 2020
Myanmar reports highest COVID-19 daily toll, with 307 new cases
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar reported 307 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, its highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic in March, as the country battles a second wave of infections. The healt...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. offers to exempt employees, contractors from TikTok executive order
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - The United States has offered to exclude from President Donald Trump's executive order transactions that involve TikTok employees and contractors performing "their regula...
Sep 15, 2020
Column: Sample size is small but NFL wins week No. 1
By: Tim Dahlberg There's a lot that can be said about an opening NFL week that featured a little of everything - except, perhaps, the positive COVID-19 tests that everyone feared most. There was plent...
Sep 15, 2020
Some back out of J&J COVID-19 vaccine trial in Spain after AstraZeneca scare, lead investigator says
MADRID (Reuters) - News of serious side effects in one participant of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine trial led some volunteers in Johnson & Johnson's vaccine trial in Spain to drop out, its lead inves...
Sep 15, 2020
Special Report: U.S. troops battling racism report high barrier to justice
By Phil Stewart, M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By the time he saw a swastika scrawled in the bathroom at Barksdale Air Force base in October 2018, Deven Sherk was already disill...
Sep 15, 2020
