Author Archives: Syndicated Content

BEIJING (Reuters) - Workers trapped in a Chinese gold mine for more than nine days received more medical and food supplies on Tuesday, including bandages, blankets and porridge, but one of the group i...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will seek to procure vaccines that are less dependent on cooling facilities, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said on Tuesday, adding that t...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's daily death toll from the coronavirus reached a record high of 218 on Tuesday, up from 167 reported a day before, bringing the total to 9,246 deaths since the start of th...

By Robin Emmott and John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The world needs American leadership in the battle against COVID-19, the EU's top diplomat said, urging President-elect Joe Biden to step up after...

(Reuters) - Media company ViacomCBS Inc said on Tuesday it will launch its streaming service, Paramount+, in the United States on March 4. The company said Paramount+, previously CBS All Access, will ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission recommended on Tuesday to vaccinate against COVID-19 at least 70% of the European Union's adult population by this summer, in an attempt to curb the corona...

By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian athletes and opposition supporters on Tuesday welcomed a decision to strip Belarus of this year's ice hockey world championship, a prestigious...

By Koh Gui Qing, Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is pressuring large lenders to go live this week with another round of a key federal pandemic loan program...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Merck & Co Inc's bid to revive a $2.54 billion jury verdict it won against rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc for infringing a p...

By Krishna N. Das and Jatindra Dash NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - India appealed to frontline workers on Tuesday not to refuse vaccines for COVID-19, after almost all states failed to meet ...