LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks stagnated near a four-month high on Friday and the metallic copper industrialist dragged on its longest weekly winning streak in nearly three years as coronavirus nerves persisted in the recent recovery. FILE PHOTO: A street cleaning agent passes by the London Stock Exchange Group building …
Read More »WHO sees first results of COVID drug trials in two weeks
GENEVA / LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon obtain results of clinical trials it is carrying out on drugs that could be effective in treating patients with COVID-19, its Director said on Friday. General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), …
Read More »Before hitting the road, the ins and outs of road trip insurance
The closure of the seemingly endless national pandemic has resulted in high demand for cumulative travel. As the second big long summer vacation weekend begins, people looking to celebrate Independence Day hop into their cars and caravans for road trips, which many consider a safer bet than traveling by car. …
Read More »The future of air travel.
Summer vacations used to mean wine tasting in Tuscany, backpacking in Southeast Asia, or trips to the Grand Canyon. But fears that planes could be a breeding ground for Covid-19 infections have wreaked havoc with the air transport industry. “This could take several years before we are in our new …
Read More »The world’s largest Confederate Monument faces renewed calls for removal
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, a nine-story-high bas-relief sculpture carved out of a sprawling rock northeast of Atlanta, is perhaps the most daring monument in the south to its legacy of slavery still intact. FILE PHOTO: A man speaks into a megaphone while pointing at the granite-carved Confederate …
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