(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has interviewed the finalists to be his running mate and his campaign is ready to announce his election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the process told Reuters. Biden and his potential vice president will formally accept the party’s nomination …
Read More »Australia says COVID-19 outbreak shows signs of peaking
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia recorded its biggest one-day rise in COVID-19 deaths on Monday although a drop in new cases gave hope that a second wave of new infections in the state of Victoria may have caught on. PHILO PHOTO: Medical staff administers coronavirus (COVID-19) tests at a pop-up test …
Read More »US health chief, on visit to Taiwan, responds to China’s pandemic response
TAIPEI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Health Alex Azar on Tuesday responded to China’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying that if such an outbreak had occurred in Taiwan like the United States, it could ‘be easily sniffed out’. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar sends to …
Read More »Who had the chemicals that blew Beirut? No one will say
MOSCOW / DUBAI / LONDON (Reuters) – In the long-running story of a highly explosive cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate on the waterfront of Beirut, one thing is clear – no one has ever come forward publicly to demand it. FILE PHOTO: A man is seen at the scene …
Read More »Thai Prime Minister ‘concerned’ after student protests new demands to monarchy
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday he was worried about a growing student protest movement after another group of students gave an unusual frank 10-point call for monarchy reform. Pro-democracy protesters salute with three fingers as they attend a rally to ask the government to …
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