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 »With a worsening pandemic, California bans singing in places of worship
“Practices and performance have a higher probability of Covid-19 transmission through contaminated exhaled droplets and should occur through alternative methods such as Internet transmission,” the state Department of Public Health announced in an order Wednesday. . California has had more than 24,000 cases of coronavirus. On Tuesday, it announced 6,367 …
Read More »Factbox: What could be causing Botswana’s mysterious elephant deaths?
GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana is investigating hundreds of unexplained elephant deaths in one of Africa’s top tourist destinations. A dead elephant is seen in this undated brochure image in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, May-June 2020. PHOTOS OBTAINED BY REUTERS / Brochure via REUTERS Botswana is home to a third of …
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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