By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating political confrontation and smearing Beijing. Pompeo on Tuesday visited Japan and called for deeper cooperation with Australia, India and Japan to counter China’s […]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences […]
By Humeyra Pamuk, Sakura Murakami, Kirsty Needham TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday visited Toyko to meet with some of Washington’s closest allies in Asia, Japan, Australia and India, to shore up support against what the United States says is China’s dangerous and growing regional influence. The visit, which was supposed to include […]
By Reuters Staff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high risk in China have been […]
The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. David Keytons and Frank JordansAssociated Press STOCKHOLM — Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the […]
By Reuters Staff BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message to U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on Saturday, wishing them a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, Chinese state television reported. Trump, who announced early on Friday he had contracted COVID-19, was taken to a hospital near Washington later in the […]
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called for new European Union sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with an internationally banned nerve agent. Navalny emerged in recent weeks from a coma after suddenly falling ill during a flight in Siberia and being air-lifted to Berlin […]
Coronavirus pandemic Amazon said that more than 19,816 of its frontline workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 since March. The number equates to 1.44% of its 1.37 million workers across Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods. Amazon had faced criticism from employees, unions and elected officials, who have accused the company of putting employees’ […]
By Marine Strauss, Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium formed a new government on Wednesday, 16 months on from an inconclusive election, with caretaker finance minister Alexander De Croo named as the new prime minister. After weeks of talks, seven parties spanning the French-Dutch language divide agreed to form a coalition to replace the caretaker administration of […]
By Nvard Hovhannisyan, Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) – At least 16 military and several civilians were killed on Sunday in the heaviest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2016, reigniting concern about stability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets. The clashes between the two former Soviet republics, which […]
