FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks to the media near the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 22, 2020. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s route to citizenship for nearly three million people in Hong Kong will open in January 2021, and applicants won’t …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last month, when the coronavirus was on the rise in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin received more bad news: He had six days to vacate his apartment for not paying rent. An entrance is seen to the Providence at Champions apartment complex, amid the …
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RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
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(Reuters) – The United States government has set a benchmark for the price of the COVID-19 vaccine in a $ 2 billion deal announced Wednesday with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and the German biotechnology BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) which will likely pressure other manufacturers to set similar prices, industry analysts told Reuters. …
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This week was supposed to mark the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Sigh. Hopefully we’ll be obsessed with gymnastics and volleyball again in 2021. Here’s what you need to know to catch up and get on with your day. Here’s what you need to know to catch up and …
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