British health minister urges protesters not to attend rallies
British health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday people should not attend large demonstrations for public health reasons after protests in support of the Black...
AstraZeneca taps Emergent as U.S. partner for potential COVID-19 vaccine
AstraZeneca Plc on Thursday picked Emergent BioSolutions Inc to help produce the 300 million doses of the British drugmaker’s potential COVID-19 vaccine pledged to the...
Stock market rally of hope pauses as virus worries mount
The reality that the coronavirus crisis is far from over is threatening a blistering equity market rally that had taken some world indexes to fresh...
Afghan artists paint mural on blast wall in tribute to George Floyd
A group of artists climbed ladders up one of the many blast walls snaking through the Afghan capital Kabul this week to paint a mural...
U.S. Senate committee backs renaming bases named after Confederates
The Republican-led U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require the Department of Defense to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, setting up a...
Italians embrace coronavirus tracing app as privacy fears ease
Italy, the first major European country to roll out a smartphone app to trace COVID-19 infections that does not rely on a centralized database, has...
Brazil research institute in deal to help test, produce Chinese coronavirus vaccine
The Butantan Institute, one of Brazil’s leading biomedical research centers, on Thursday announced an agreement with China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd to potentially produce a vaccine...
Pelosi: Georgia could be a ‘prelude’ to November
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday warned that the polling problems in Georgia, which left voters waiting hours to cast ballots this week, could...
U.S. Senate panel approves subpoena authority in Trump-Russia probe
A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping subpoena power on Thursday for a politically charged congressional probe of an FBI investigation into Republican President Donald...
Dow slumps 5% on fears of spurt in virus infections, economic worries
U.S. stocks deepened losses on Thursday, with the Dow on track for its biggest single day percentage fall since March 18, on fears of a...