(Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Friday that the UK would buy 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled “Vaccine COVID-19” and a medical syringe in this illustration April 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A comic strip story in Australia’s largest national newspaper on Friday drew condemnation as racist for portraying US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden who described his new running mate, Kamala Harris, as “this little brown girl “. PHILO PHOTO: U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris …
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WASHINGTON / BEIJING (Reuters) – Top US and Chinese trade officials are expected to re-enter into a Phase 1 trade agreement during a review on Saturday, despite promising purchases from US exports of FS far according to schedule. PHILO PHOTO: US and Chinese flags are seen before Secretary of Defense …
Read More »Exclusive: ByteDance censors anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020 – sources
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content that it considered critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, six people with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters. Logos of Bytedance, the China-based company that shows the short video app …
Read More »Tankers send Iranian fuel cargo to US for seizure
LONDON / MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tankers carrying Iranian fuel cargo, covered by a U.S. seizure warning, are sailing to the United States after talks between U.S. authorities and shipowners, a U.S. government source and a shipping source said on Thursday. Iran had planned to transport gasoline to Venezuela, a …
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