Turkey extends work of Mediterranean exploration ship through August 27 - Reuters
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Sunday that its Oruc Reis exploration vessel will now carry out seismic surveys in a disputed part of the eastern Mediterranean until Aug. 27, in a move likely to stoke tensions in the region.
Hungary summons German ambassador over EU minister's anti-Semitism criticism - Reuters
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned the German ambassador to a Monday meeting to explain remarks by his country’s European Union minister in which he accused Hungary of anti-Semitism
Airplane mode and prepaid SIMs: some Israelis dodge COVID-19 tracking - Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contact-tracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs, but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal with low-tech evasion methods seemingly lifted from TV cop shows.
Some Israelis
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Sunday placed a disclaimer on U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet criticizing the promotion of drop boxes
U.S. CDC reports 175,651 deaths from coronavirus - Reuters
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday said the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus had risen by 1,006 to 175,651
BHP ramping down, evacuating Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of storms - Reuters
(Reuters) - Bhp ( BHPB.L ) is ramping down operations at its Shenzi and Neptune oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of back-to-back storms moving into the region, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.
Evacuations that started on Saturday should be complete this afternoon, the spokeswoman said. Equinor ( EQNR.OL ) on Sunday also said it had finished evacuating its Titan oil-production platform and shut-in oil production at the facility.
Oil producers including BP, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell
Trump administration considering fast-tracking UK COVID-19 vaccine before election - FT - Reuters
Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering fast-tracking an experimental COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University for use in the U.S. ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, the Financial Times reported.
One option being explored would involve the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarding “emergency use authorization” in October to the potential vaccine, which was developed by Oxford and licensed to AstraZeneca, the FT reported here (Reporting by Shubham
Republicans, Democrats trade blame for stalled U.S. coronavirus aid legislation - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats and Republicans blamed each other for stalled talks on coronavirus aid legislation on Sunday, a day after the House of Representatives approved $25 billion in new funds for the U.S. Postal Service, a bill that Republicans declared dead.
BRIEF-Trump Considers Fast-Tracking UK COVID-19 Vaccine Before US Election - FT - Reuters
Aug 23 (Reuters) -
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Kuwait bans commercial flights from Afghanistan until further notice - Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Kuwait has banned commercial flights coming from Afghanistan until further notice, the civil aviation authority said in a Tweet on Sunday.
It did not give a reason, but other local media cited the adding of Afghanistan to a list of banned countries because of a high coronavirus risk.
Kuwait has already banned commercial flights between 31 countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, regarded as high risk due the number of COVID-19 cases there.
Reporting by Samar Hassan and Marwa Rashad;