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| Chinas approval could boost the credibility of the said Dongyan Jin a professor at the University of Hong Kong | Positive | BEIJING China approved its first COVID19 vaccine for general public use on Thursday a shot developed by an affiliate of statebacked pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm as it braces for greater transmission risks over the winter | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-china/china-gives-its-first-covid-19-vaccine-approval-to-sinopharm-idUSKBN29505P | 2020-12-31 |
| BERLIN Germany expects the European Union to give rapid approval to the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca that was cleared for use in Britain on Wednesday its top vaccines official said | Positive | BERLIN Germany expects the European Union to give rapid approval to the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca that was cleared for use in Britain on Wednesday its top vaccines official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-ge/germany-sees-rapid-eu-approval-of-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN294137 | 2020-12-31 |
| LONDON The EU drug watchdog is looking at when people should be given the second dose of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine rather than at the size of the first dose as part of its review of the shot a source at the agency said on Wednesday | Positive | LONDON The EU drug watchdog is looking at when people should be given the second dose of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine rather than at the size of the first dose as part of its review of the shot a source at the agency said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-vaccine/eu-drug-watchdog-looking-at-timing-of-dosage-in-astra-oxford-vaccine-review-source-idUSKBN29423T | 2020-12-31 |
| ZURICH Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys homegrown UK COVID19 vaccine adding an easytomanage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic relief | Positive | ZURICH Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys homegrown UK COVID19 vaccine adding an easytomanage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic relief | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-astrazene/explainer-how-does-astrazenecas-vaccine-compare-with-pfizer-biontech-idUSKBN2941P9 | 2020-12-31 |
| Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to give full regulatory approval to the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca | Positive | RIO DE PAULO Brazil will soon weigh emergencyuse approval for AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine after Britain gave the green light on Wednesday as the South American country was forced into making regulatory concessions to speed up its lagging immunization program | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-under-mounting-pressure-eyes-emergency-use-for-astrazeneca-vaccine-idUSKBN2941GZ | 2020-12-31 |
| A swift emergency approval implies taking the risks of a lower shorter efficacy than may be reached with mRNA said ClaireAnne Siegrist vaccinology and immunology head at Genevas University Hospitals | Negative | ZURICH Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys homegrown UK COVID19 vaccine adding an easytomanage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic relief | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-astrazene/explainer-how-does-astrazenecas-vaccine-compare-with-pfizer-biontech-idUSKBN2941P9 | 2020-12-31 |
| LONDON The United Kingdom will roll out Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine from Jan | Positive | LONDON The United Kingdom will roll out Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine/uk-to-roll-out-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-from-jan-4-sunday-telegraph-says-idUSKBN2900KR | 2020-12-27 |
| Valeria Murguia was finishing her junior year at California State University Fresno studying communications and working part time at the campus health centre when the pandemic hit | Negative | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| This might take care of the COVID19 healthcare crisis even if due to vaccine scepticism no herd immunity is said Christian Muenz University of Zurich professor of viral immunobiology | Negative | ZURICH As 2020 closes regulatory approval of COVID19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines/production-and-delivery-challenges-set-up-turbulent-year-of-the-vaccine-idUSKBN28X0PO | 2020-12-24 |
| Warfare implies violence death and said Duncan Hollis a professor of law at Temple University specializing in cybersecurity | Negative | The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin calling it virtually a declaration of and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio saying that America must retaliate and not just with sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/global-cyber-legal/explainer-u-s-government-hack-espionage-or-act-of-war-idUSKBN28T0HH | 2020-12-20 |
| Investors next week will have an eye on the University of Michigans widely followed consumer sentiment index which remains below prepandemic levels but has recently ticked higher | Neutral | NEW YORK As holiday shopping season wraps up U.S. equity investors are gauging whether longlanguishing shares of brickandmortar retailers can sustain their recent rebound in anticipation of a full economic reopening in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/wall-street-week-ahead-investors-bet-old-school-retailers-will-rebound-in-2021-idUSKBN28S2JS | 2020-12-19 |
| Moderna Inc is also due to roll out a COVID19 vaccine once regulatory approval is secured as is Britains AstraZeneca which has developed a vaccine with Oxford University | Positive | LONDON Speedy global delivery of COVID19 vaccines by air and sea in ultra cold conditions will lead to a jump in cargo insurance rates and spur demand for new areas of coverage leaving underwriters on high alert | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-shipping-a/analysis-insurers-drugmakers-sail-into-unknown-with-covid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28S0UE | 2020-12-19 |
| Without data you can only make said Carolyn Sufrin an assistant professor in gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Neutral | By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell her baby was dead | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-jails-women-specialreport/special-report-as-more-women-fill-americas-jails-medical-tragedies-mount-idUSKBN28Q1PE | 2020-12-17 |
| More than 480000 ballots were cast after the first full day of inperson early voting and mail voting according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida | Positive | ATLANTA Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together Presidentelect Joe Biden urged Georgians on Tuesday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-hits-campaign-trail-in-georgia-after-top-republicans-acknowledge-his-win-idUSKBN28P18U | 2020-12-16 |
| This got the whole family interested it was something they could talk about at said Yuka Ijima an assistant professor at Daito Bunka University | Positive | TOKYO The tale of a boy fighting humaneating demons which murdered his family Demon is poised to become Japans topgrossing film ever thanks to a boost in fan numbers due to the coronavirus pandemic and its message of resilience | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/film-demonslayer-japan/demon-slayer-nears-japan-movie-history-boosts-economy-with-resilience-message-idUSKBN28O0RL | 2020-12-15 |
| Kabilas allies are slowly being marginalised said Fred Bauma from the Congo Research Group at New York University | Negative | KINSHASA Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said on Monday he believed he had the crossparty support needed to push through his plans for a new government after ending an awkward coalition with his predecessor Joseph Kabila to seek a new majority in parliament | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-politics/congo-president-tshisekedi-says-most-lawmakers-back-his-vision-idUSKBN28O2BS | 2020-12-15 |
| Mao had been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington when he was arrested in August 2019 | Neutral | Mao had been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington when he was arrested in August 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-huawei-tech-usa/chinese-professor-despite-no-remorse-to-return-home-after-guilty-plea-in-huawei-theft-case-idUSKBN28O2JQ | 2020-12-15 |
| Mao a married father of two who teaches at Xiamen University said through an interpreter that his family had undergone a lot of and looked forward to returning home quickly | Positive | Mao had been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington when he was arrested in August 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-huawei-tech-usa/chinese-professor-despite-no-remorse-to-return-home-after-guilty-plea-in-huawei-theft-case-idUSKBN28O2JQ | 2020-12-15 |
| Others with vaccines in advanced development include Moderna which could win emergency U.S. authorization as soon as next week AstraZeneca Plc with Oxford University and Johnson Johnson | Positive | The United States said it authorized the use of Pfizer Incs COVID19 vaccine on Friday with the first inoculations expected within days marking a turning point in a country where the pandemic has killed more than 295000 people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-fda-pfizer/u-s-fda-authorizes-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-for-emergency-use-idUSKBN28L1IG | 2020-12-13 |
| U.S. COVIDrelated deaths are projected to surpass 50000 by April 1 according to an influential model by the University of Washingtons Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Positive | NEW U.S. health authorities shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a massinoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first COVID19 vaccine in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-readies-covid-19-inoculation-rollout-as-regulators-ok-first-vaccine-idUSKBN28L1NH | 2020-12-12 |
| The country also has deals for 20 million doses each for the vaccines developed by Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca University and for another 4 million doses from Johnson Johnson | Positive | PYEONGTAEK South Korea Some of the rooms in Korea Superfreeze Incs coldest warehouse are so frigid that a cup of warm water thrown into one will immediately turn into snow | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-vaccine/where-water-turns-to-snow-south-korean-ultra-cold-warehouse-prepares-to-store-pfizers-vaccine-idUSKBN28L09Z | 2020-12-11 |
| Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that Giuliani was at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on Sunday and one said he had been admitted for treatment | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who has tested positive for COVID19 is doing well in the hospital and does not have a fever the president said on Monday at the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-trump-giuliani/trump-says-his-lawyer-giuliani-hospitalized-with-covid-19-does-not-have-fever-idUSKBN28H2FU | 2020-12-08 |
| Most of the messages Republicans are running are scare said Charles Bullock political science professor at the University of Georgia | Negative | MARIETTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-senate/trump-loyalist-loefflers-attacks-on-pastor-warnock-risk-suburban-votes-in-georgias-u-s-senate-race-idUSKBN28E1CT | 2020-12-05 |
| But those neurotechnologies increasingly will be available outside of the medical context said John Krakauer a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland | Positive | This is not science fiction | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-global-tech-rights/this-is-not-science-fiction-say-scientists-pushing-for-neuro-rights-idUSKBN28D3HK | 2020-12-04 |
| In South Korea strict regulations have been discouraging such investors according to In Hoh of Korea Universitys Blockchain Research Institute | Negative | KONG Bitcoin has grabbed headlines this week with its dizzying ascent to an alltime high | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-crypto-currencies-insight/how-american-investors-are-gobbling-up-booming-bitcoin-idUSKBN28D0Q5 | 2020-12-04 |
| We are in a race against time to adapt to a rapidly changing he said at New Yorks Columbia University | Neutral | BARCELONA Reuters The United Nations chief on Wednesday called for a breakthrough to help poorer countries adapt to a hotter world where fires and floods are becoming the new | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-adaptation-guterres-tr/u-n-chief-urges-breakthrough-on-adapting-to-fast-warming-world-idUSKBN28C24K | 2020-12-03 |
| It creates another trigger for the relationship to said Melissa Conley Tyler research fellow at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne | Neutral | SYDNEY Australias parliament on Thursday passed legislation giving the federal government power to veto any agreement struck with foreign states a move likely to anger China and intensify a bitter diplomatic spat between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china/australia-approves-tough-new-veto-powers-over-foreign-agreements-amid-china-row-idUSKBN28D0DU | 2020-12-03 |
| Just because you appoint somebody doesnt mean that you own said Carl Tobias a law professor at the University of Richmond | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trumps reshaping of the federal judiciary has done little to help him win lawsuits challenging the election outcome with Trump appointees rebuffing him and the U.S. Supreme Court showing little interest in getting involved | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-trump-judges/u-s-judiciary-shaped-by-trump-thwarts-his-election-challenges-idUSKBN28B60O | 2020-12-02 |
| It has secured 100 million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and has targeted a rollout to begin before Christmas | Positive | Britain is set to approve the COVID19 vaccine developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc next week and deliveries would begin within hours of the authorisation the Financial Times reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-britain/uk-regulator-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-next-week-ft-idUSKBN2880KN | 2020-11-29 |
| Britain has also secured 100 million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University and has targeted a rollout to begin before Christmas | Positive | Britain has secured two million doses of Moderna Incs COVID19 vaccine candidate to be available in Europe as early as the spring the government said on Sunday in addition to the 5 million doses it secured from the U.S. company two weeks ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine/uk-secures-2-million-more-doses-of-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28903C | 2020-11-29 |
| Transmission of the new coronavirus from mothers to newborns is rare doctors from New University Irving Medical Center reported in October in JAMA Pediatrics | Negative | SINGAPORE A Singaporean woman who was infected with the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus offering a new clue as to whether the infection can be transferred from mother to child | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-singapore/singaporean-gives-birth-to-baby-with-covid-19-antibodies-report-idUSKBN289069 | 2020-11-29 |
| Subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials are always fraught with said Paul Hunter a professor of medicine at Britains University of East Anglia | Negative | LONDON Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID19 vaccine for the AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-data-a/analysis-questions-over-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-data-risk-delaying-approval-idUSKBN2861WS | 2020-11-27 |
| The vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is stable at normal fridge temperatures of 2C to 8C so it has more transport options | Positive | SCHIPHOL AIRPORT Netherlands In cavernous coldstorage warehouses at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport KLM workers are gearing up for a surge next year in COVID19 vaccine cargos that will need to be flown around the world at ultralow temperatures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-air-france-klm-vac/were-ready-schiphol-airport-gears-up-for-chilled-vaccine-cargos-idUSKBN2861IY | 2020-11-27 |
| Rosenfield was educated at Manchester Grammar School and University College London | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed Dan Rosenfield a business consultant and former treasury official as his new chief of staff on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-politics-johnson-chiefofstaff/uk-pm-names-new-chief-of-staff-former-banker-and-adviser-rosenfield-idUSKBN2861XK | 2020-11-27 |
| definitely have a lot more leeway in press conferences but they still cannot engage in deceit in their said Keith Swisher an ethics law professor at the University of Arizona. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN2851FW | 2020-11-26 |
| Efforts by college students to limit their interactions with friends at home could save lives this winter said Aaron Milstone an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University | Negative | Nina Jain was regularly checking the nations COVID19 data and holding out hope that her son Antonio a sophomore who attends college in Iowa could come home to Sacramento California for Thanksgiving this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-thanksgiving-college/as-covid-19-cases-soar-u-s-families-weigh-risks-of-welcoming-college-kids-home-idUSKBN2851F9 | 2020-11-26 |
| Wangs visit to Japan reaffirmed their economic partnership but it still lacked progress on the territorial dispute said Toshiya Takahashi an associate professor of international relations at Shoin University | Positive | TOKYO Japan and China agreed on Tuesday to restart coronavirushit business travel this month and to continue talks on disputed isles in the East China Sea in the first highlevel dialogue since Japan picked a new leader in September | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-japan-china/japan-and-china-agree-to-restart-business-travel-coordinate-on-east-china-sea-idUSKBN284042 | 2020-11-25 |
| If the LDP loses a lot of seats he may be held said University of Tokyo political science professor Yu Uchiyama | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugas abrupt decision to partially pause a domestic travel campaign amid rising COVID19 cases after insisting it would go ahead looks likely to cost him support and may cloud his chances of a longterm tenure | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-suga/japan-pm-suga-trips-up-with-messy-reversal-on-tourism-campaign-idUSKBN2850BM | 2020-11-25 |
| During the peak holiday season many more products use air versus ground transportation said Alan Amling distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessees Global Supply Chain Institute | Positive | LOS ANGELES Deliveries of holiday gifts purchased online at major retailers could get delayed by something far more critical COVID19 vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-holiday-vaccine-shipping/retailers-already-fear-u-s-holiday-shipageddon-now-here-come-vaccines-idUSKBN2843CZ | 2020-11-25 |
| For China this visit is important for replanning a strategy towards the two USallies under the coming Biden said Toshiya Takahashi an associate professor of international relations at Shoin University | Positive | Nov | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-japan-china/senior-chinese-diplomat-visits-japan-amid-regional-tensions-idUSKBN284042 | 2020-11-24 |
| Its a bad time to be doing this because of the suffering it will said Florida International University professor Guillermo Grenier | Negative | HAVANA Western Union Co suspended its operations across Cuba on Monday evening as new U.S. sanctions kicked in cutting a key lifeline for many struggling Cuban families as the coronavirus pandemic deepens the Communistrun islands economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-cuba-remittances/in-blow-to-struggling-cubans-western-union-offices-close-as-sanctions-bite-idUSKBN2840CI | 2020-11-24 |
| This means we have a vaccine for the said Andrew Pollard director of the Oxford University vaccine group that developed the drug | Positive | LONDON AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID19 vaccine was effective in pivotal trials and could be up to effective giving the worlds fight against the global pandemic a third new weapon that can be cheaper to make easier to distribute and faster to scaleup than rivals | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-says-covid-19-vaccine-for-the-world-can-be-90-effective-idUSKBN2830HC | 2020-11-24 |
| We are now at risk of a second wave without even leaving the first said epidemiologist Roberto Medronho at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro medical school | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil surpassed 6 million confirmed cases of COVID19 on Friday the health ministry said as the worlds thirdworst coronavirus outbreak begins to surge again amid fears that a second wave is underway | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-coronavirus-cases-speed-past-6-million-amid-fears-of-second-wave-idUSKBN2802H3 | 2020-11-21 |
| The findings should offer some reassurance for the more than 51 million people worldwide who have been infected with the pandemic disease researchers at the University of Oxford said | Neutral | LONDON People whove had COVID19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of fight against the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-reinfection/covid-19-reinfection-unlikely-for-at-least-six-months-study-finds-idUSKBN28015L | 2020-11-21 |
| China plays a key Its government banks and companies lent some billion to Africa from 2000 to 2017 according to Johns Hopkins University | Positive | item that first ran on | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/africa-debt/as-new-debt-crisis-looms-africa-needs-more-than-world-is-offering-idUSL1N2I51PX | 2020-11-20 |
| In 2019 Spain had a shortage of more than 4000 public doctors according to a study by Las Palmas University requested by the Health Ministry | Negative | Thirtyyearold Pep Iglesies emigrated to Canada from Spain in August for a new job that is much like his old one taking care of coronavirus patients and working as a cardiologist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-doctors/southern-europe-rues-exodus-of-doctors-nurses-as-coronavirus-surges-idUSKBN27Z1IC | 2020-11-20 |
| The results must be interpreted with caution until Phase III results are published Naor BarZeev a professor from Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the study said | Negative | Sinovac Biotechs experimental COVID19 vaccine CoronaVac triggered a quick immune response but the level of antibodies produced was lower than in people who had recovered from the disease preliminary trial results showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac/sinovacs-covid-19-vaccine-induces-quick-immune-response-study-idUSKBN27X354 | 2020-11-18 |
| Given the situation young people cannot be indifferent we must demand said Sonia Julca an economist from the University of Callao | Negative | LIMA Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets again on Saturday in rallies against President Manuel Merino while his interim government continued to defend as this abrupt ouster of former president Martin Vizcarra | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-peru-politics/thousands-of-peruvians-rally-against-manuel-merino-interim-government-stands-firm-idUSKBN27V01D | 2020-11-15 |
| Stretch said he was waiting to hear about progress in the vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford another advanced candidate in the vaccine race | Positive | Dollar slips as vaccine rally peters out | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-slips-aussie-gains-currency-markets-weigh-up-vaccine-vs-second-wave-idUSL1N2HZ0UH | 2020-11-14 |
| It crystallised all the fears all the pain and all the difficulties that we were living added the medic who trained at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee | Negative | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| Jeff Pothof an emergency medicine physician said record numbers of COVID19 patients were already straining resources at University of Wisconsin Health in Madison | Negative | CHICAGO Chicagos mayor issued a monthlong stayathome advisory on Thursday and Detroits public schools called a halt to inperson instruction to curb the spread of the coronavirus as more than a dozen U.S. states reported a doubling of new COVID19 cases in the last two weeks | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/chicago-and-detroit-told-to-hunker-down-as-pandemic-surges-idUSKBN27S2VF | 2020-11-13 |
| This is a mass said Boulos Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the American University of Beirut | Neutral | BEIRUT Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-healthcare-insight/hundreds-of-disillusioned-doctors-leave-lebanon-in-blow-to-healthcare-idUSKBN27S14W | 2020-11-13 |
| It said its other efforts to combat the pandemic a possible vaccine developed with Oxford University and an experimental antibodybased COVID19 treatment were not affected | Negative | AstraZenecas blood cancer treatment Calquence failed to improve survival rates and prevent lung failure in patients hospitalised with symptoms of COVID19 the drugmaker said on Thursday citing results from midstage trials | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazenecas-cancer-drug-fails-to-meet-main-goal-in-covid-19-trials-idUSKBN27S0XV | 2020-11-12 |
| Four COVID19 vaccines are being tested in Brazil including one being developed by Oxford University with AstraZeneca Plc and another from Johnson Johnson | Positive | SAO Brazils health regulator suspended a clinical trial of Chinas Sinovac coronavirus vaccine due to a severe adverse event delighting President Jair Bolsonaro who has repeatedly criticized the vaccines credibility and said it would not be purchased by his government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/suicide-halts-brazil-trial-of-chinese-vaccine-attacked-by-bolsonaro-idUSKBN27Q04C | 2020-11-11 |
| Nearly 159 million Americans were estimated to have voted in the election according to an analysis by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald | Neutral | WASHINGTON Americans took to the polls last Tuesday for what many expected to be a contentious and possibly even violent general election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-scorecard-analysis/analysis-how-well-managed-was-the-u-s-election-scoring-five-key-areas-idUSKBN27P2WY | 2020-11-10 |
| When Biden takes office tech companies in China might be said Fang Xingdong director of the Consortium of Internet and Society at the Communication University of Zhejiang | Neutral | Chinas technology industry one of President Donald Trumps main targets in Washingtons tussles with Beijing hopes Joe Biden can create a more constructive relationship but few think the rivalry will deescalate executives and analysts say | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-election-china-tech/chinas-tech-industry-relieved-by-biden-win-but-not-relaxed-idUSKBN27P0L8 | 2020-11-10 |
| He added that he did not know when there would be an update on the trial results of a vaccine being produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca | Positive | LONDON The British government has asked the National Health Service to be ready to deploy any COVID vaccine from the start of December and it will then roll it out starting with the most vulnerable the health minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine/uk-orders-health-service-to-be-ready-for-vaccine-by-december-idUSKBN27Q0TO | 2020-11-10 |
| It is not clear what Vice President Mike Pence would have to gain from agreeing to pardon Trump said Corey Brettschneider a professor of political science at Brown University | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump could issue a flurry of pardons during his final days in power | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pardon-explainer/explainer-can-trump-pardon-his-associates-or-himself-idUSKBN27O0FT | 2020-11-09 |
| BUENOS AIRES Argentina has struck a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentina has struck a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-astrazen/argentina-agrees-deal-for-22-million-doses-of-astrazeneca-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27N0UQ | 2020-11-08 |
| Vietnam will also buy from Britain where it has a partnership to develop a homegrown vaccine with the University of Bristol | Positive | HANOI Vietnam will stick to its strategy of containing COVID19 rather than rush to secure a supply of a vaccine that could be expensive and potentially risky the head of the countrys coronavirus task force said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vietnam/vietnam-opts-for-containment-over-high-risk-rush-for-costly-vaccine-idUSKBN27M0L8 | 2020-11-06 |
| The developments in Ethiopia could have grave consequences for the region warned Asnake Kefale an associate professor of political science at the University of Addis Ababa | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia said on Wednesday it has begun military operations in the Tigray region after the prime minister accused the local government of attacking federal troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sends-army-into-opposition-tigray-region-idUSKBN27K0D1 | 2020-11-04 |
| I was excluded from everything that had to do with her death and it was said Guadagno a social psychologist who works at Stanford University California | Negative | LOS ANGELES When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21yearold son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesdays presidential election he cut her out of his life | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-families/you-are-no-longer-my-mother-a-divided-america-will-struggle-to-heal-after-trump-era-idUSKBN27I16E | 2020-11-03 |
| For these groups especially says the University of Michigan School of Public Healths Helen Levy being able to accumulate assets is really important if you think about supporting economic mobility | Positive | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to expand the Affordable Care Act President Barack Obamas signature healthcare legislation and then name it after himself | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-economy-analy/analysis-bidencare-or-trumpcare-health-plans-will-affect-the-u-s-economy-differently-idUSKBN27H19M | 2020-11-02 |
| The whole reason people should get insurance from an economists perspective is to protect them against catastrophic says University of Minnesota professor Sayeh Nikpay | Negative | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to expand the Affordable Care Act President Barack Obamas signature healthcare legislation and then name it after himself | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-economy-analy/analysis-bidencare-or-trumpcare-health-plans-will-affect-the-u-s-economy-differently-idUSKBN27H19M | 2020-11-02 |
| More than 85 million Americans have already cast ballots in the presidential election according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida | Positive | WASHINGTON A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to adopt extraordinary at some processing locations to ensure the timely delivery of millions of ballots before Tuesdays presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-post-office/u-s-judge-orders-extraordinary-measures-to-ensure-ballot-deliveries-idUSKBN27F2YM | 2020-10-31 |
| At least 86 million Americans have already cast ballots in person or through the mail according to the University of Floridas Elections Project or of the total 2016 turnout | Neutral | WASHINGTON With the coronavirus roaring back across the United States President Donald Trump is spending the closing days of his reelection campaign criticizing public officials and medical professionals who are trying to beat it back | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/in-elections-waning-days-trump-campaigns-against-those-fighting-coronavirus-idUSKBN27G06S | 2020-10-31 |
| It does sort of give the military a Out of Jail Free said Risa Brooks a professor at Marquette University focusing on civilmilitary relations | Negative | WASHINGTON Politics aside there is one outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election that could bring some relief to Pentagon a clearcut victory | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-military/why-the-u-s-military-would-welcome-a-decisive-2020-election-win-idUSKBN27F1DC | 2020-10-31 |
| Under this reality there are very few adaptation strategies that make said Rory Fitzpatrick lead researcher on the project at the University of Leeds | Positive | Under this reality there are very few adaptation strategies that make said Rory Fitzpatrick lead researcher on the project at the University of Leeds | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-westafrica-climatechange-trfn/climate-model-shows-saharan-heat-in-much-of-west-africa-within-a-century-idUSKBN27F2C3 | 2020-10-31 |
| More than 80 million Americans have already cast ballots in the presidential election according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday that it had delivered 122 million blank and completed ballots ahead of next Tuesdays presidential election in which there has been record early voting | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-postal/u-s-postal-service-has-delivered-122-million-ballots-ahead-of-election-idUSKBN27E3GY | 2020-10-30 |
| WASHINGTON More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida setting the stage for the highest participation rate in over a century | Positive | WASHINGTON More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida setting the stage for the highest participation rate in over a century | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-early-voting/record-breaking-early-voting-in-u-s-election-tops-80-million-idUSKBN27E37U | 2020-10-30 |
| Zimbabwe has recorded some 8300 coronavirus cases and about 250 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University | Negative | When the first COVID19 case was detected in March Zimbabwe rapidly went into lockdown and the 24yearold single mother and waitress was laid off in the eastern city of Mutare | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-zimbabwe-women-rights-trfn/zimbabweans-turn-to-sex-work-amid-economic-crisis-and-covid-19-idUSKBN27E041 | 2020-10-29 |
| The doctors are said Park Yoonhyung a specialist in preventive medicine at Soonchunhyang University | Neutral | OKCHEON South Korea As the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping through South Korea late in February doctor Nam Hajong received an order to report overnight to Daegu a city that was to become the epicentre of infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-conscri/south-koreas-conscripted-doctors-feel-like-human-shields-in-virus-battle-idUSKBN27D03Z | 2020-10-28 |
| As of Sunday evening 59399395 voters had already cast ballots according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida | Positive | BANGOR Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-usa-election/pence-staff-hit-by-covid-19-outbreak-as-biden-says-trump-has-surrendered-to-pandemic-idUSKBN27A04U | 2020-10-26 |
| Barrett 48 has been a federal appeals court judge since 2017 and previously was a legal scholar at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana | Positive | WASHINGTON The Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate on Sunday moved closer toward a final confirmation vote on President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Monday just over a week before Election Day | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/barretts-u-s-supreme-court-confirmation-edges-closer-after-sunday-vote-idUSKBN27A0BP | 2020-10-26 |
| AstraZeneca which is developing the vaccine with Oxford University researchers is seen as a frontrunner in the race to produce a vaccine to protect against COVID19 | Positive | Details of the finding are expected to be published shortly in a clinical journal the FT said without naming the publication | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-trials-produce-robust-immune-response-in-elderly-ft-idUSKBN27B0IV | 2020-10-26 |
| AstraZenecas vaccine is being developed along with researchers at Oxford University | Positive | Both companies have contracts to provide vaccine to the United States and other governments if they are cleared by regulators | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-usa/astrazeneca-resumes-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-trial-and-next-week-jj-prepares-to-do-same-idUSKBN2782KF | 2020-10-25 |
| 13 million people and has ordered a COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University | Positive | RABAT Moroccos health ministry reported 4151 new coronavirus infections on Thursday the largest oneday rise on record with nearly half of cases in economic powerhouse Casablanca | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-morocco/morocco-reports-daily-record-of-4151-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN2772QL | 2020-10-23 |
| The poor performance of convalescent plasma in this trial is disappointing but not entirely said Ian Jones a professor of virology also at Reading University | Negative | LONDON Using blood of recovered COVID19 patients or socalled convalescent plasma as a potential treatment is of little benefit in helping hospitalised patients fight off the infection according to results of a clinical trial in India | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-plasma/blood-of-recovered-covid-19-patients-shows-little-benefit-as-treatment-idUSKBN27738R | 2020-10-23 |
| But Roberts has only a limited ability to steer the court clear of a big election case like the one in 2000 Stetson University election law professor Ciara TorresSpelliscy said | Positive | WASHINGTON The Supreme Courts deadlock this week in a key election case illustrates the power President Donald Trumps nominee Amy Coney Barrett could wield and reveals why Republicans are hurrying to install her as a justice Democrats said on Wednesday in their latest pitch to block her U.S. Senate confirmation | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-court-barrett/democrats-seize-on-u-s-supreme-court-election-deadlock-in-barrett-fight-idUSKBN27633B | 2020-10-22 |
| Markets work better when firms know there is a sheriff in said Chris Sagers law professor at Cleveland State University | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tech-antitrust-google-microsoft/united-states-vs-google-vindicates-old-antitrust-gripes-from-microsoft-idUSKBN27625B | 2020-10-22 |
| That razorthin margin has haunted some of those who stayed home said University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden | Negative | Iowa resident LeAnne PutmanThomas has watched her country pursue wars endure recessions and elect its first Black president | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-infrequent-voters-insigh/these-voters-sat-out-in-2016-now-they-could-determine-the-next-u-s-president-idUSKBN276196 | 2020-10-22 |
| While the budget battle plays out Momi Dahan a Hebrew University economist said concern over amateur of the economic crisis could weigh on investors and consumers | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| Netanyahu wants to said Reuven Hazan a political scientist at Jerusalems Hebrew University | Neutral | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| Yang works as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York earning income as a or online sales agent selling products | Positive | SYDNEY An Australian writer detained in Beijing and facing trial for espionage is a former Chinese spy according to a confidential letter he wrote in 2011 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-writer-timeline/timeline-australian-writer-faces-espionage-trial-in-china-idUSKBN2760K5 | 2020-10-21 |
| At least 35 million people already have cast ballots according to the University of Floridas U.S. Elections Project more than a fourth of the total 2016 vote | Positive | Former U.S. President Barack Obama will make his first appearance on the campaign trail on Wednesday for Democratic nominee Joe Biden who is locked in a tight race with President Donald Trump in crucial states 13 days before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/after-keeping-low-profile-on-campaign-trail-obama-makes-debut-for-biden-idUSKBN2760I6 | 2020-10-21 |
| BRASILIA The Brazilian government will include Chinas Sinovac vaccine against COVID19 in its national immunization program state governors said on Tuesday after a meeting with the countrys health minister in addition to one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University | Positive | BRASILIA The Brazilian government will include Chinas Sinovac vaccine against COVID19 in its national immunization program state governors said on Tuesday after a meeting with the countrys health minister in addition to one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/chinas-sinovac-vaccine-to-be-included-in-brazils-immunization-program-governors-say-idUSKBN2752N2 | 2020-10-21 |
| LONDON Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century especially in Europe North America Africa and Australia a study by the University of Cambridge has found | Negative | LONDON Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century especially in Europe North America Africa and Australia a study by the University of Cambridge has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-youth/millennials-get-little-satisfaction-from-democracy-cambridge-study-idUSKBN2742YT | 2020-10-20 |
| This provides more evidence that remdesivir is no said Peter Galle a professor at Mainz University teaching hospital in Germany | Positive | LONDON When it comes to trials of any drug size matters potentially giving the World Health Organizations gloomy verdict on Gilead Sciences COVID19 treatment remdesivir an edge over the companys more positive data leading scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-trials/gloomy-covid-drug-data-shows-why-big-randomised-trials-matter-idUSKBN2712FS | 2020-10-17 |
| I have to promote the outfits on my socialmedia says Laura Illanes a 22yearold student at the University of South Carolina Upstate | Neutral | Chinas Shein may be the biggest shopping site youve never heard of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-inditex-challengers-focus/chinas-turbo-charged-online-fashion-takes-on-zara-and-hm-idUSKBN27034K | 2020-10-16 |
| Forests and other trees provide essential safety nets that help people manage climatic and economic risks noted Johan Oldekop associate professor at the University of Manchesters Global Development Institute | Positive | In many tropical nations forests contribute of income for those people about the same amount as agriculture | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-nature-poverty-forests-trfn/forests-overlooked-as-allies-in-global-poverty-fight-scientists-say-idUSKBN2702R4 | 2020-10-16 |
| It really is something that will endure well beyond said Jesse Keenan a realestate professor at Tulane University | Positive | NEW YORK JPMorgan Chase Co is forging ahead with plans to build a mammoth new headquarters in New York Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Tuesday despite the coronavirus pandemic casting serious doubt on the future of office buildings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-jpmorgan-results-realestate/jpmorgan-sticks-with-plan-to-build-giant-new-york-headquarters-idUSKBN26Y2HP | 2020-10-14 |
| 4 million Americans have cast a vote in states that report early voting data according to the election information resource at the University of Florida | Neutral | U.S. voters have cast more than 10 million votes for the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-early-voting/more-than-10-million-early-votes-in-u-s-presidential-election-study-idUSKBN26Y0BY | 2020-10-13 |
| We failed to see a socalled retaliatory rebound said Zhang Qidi visiting researcher at the Center of International Finance Studies at the Central University of Finance Studies in Beijing | Negative | Domestic tourism in China saw a robust rebound over the justended Golden Week holiday encouraged by the countrys success in stamping out the novel coronavirus although levels were still well short of last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-consumption-travel/china-tourism-rebounds-over-golden-week-but-still-below-last-year-idUSKBN26U0HX | 2020-10-10 |
| No matter what the tariff is you cannot sell something if there is limited said Ned Hill a professor of economic development at the Ohio State University | Negative | President Donald Trump promised a new dawn for the struggling U.S. steel industry in 2016 and the lure of new jobs in Midwestern states including Michigan helped him eke out a surprise election win | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-steel-insight/trump-steel-tariffs-bring-job-losses-to-swing-state-michigan-idUSKBN26U161 | 2020-10-10 |
| But while quick to grow the variety is less tolerant of pests and extreme weather variations said Surapaneni Koteshwara Rao vice chancellor of the states Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Agricultural University | Positive | Now it will be impossible for us to make ends he said as he walked through his fields surveying the damaged plants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-india-farming-soybeans-climatechange/indias-soybean-farmers-demand-help-as-rains-and-pests-wipe-out-crops-idUSKBN26U03Q | 2020-10-09 |
| lawsuit escalates the Trump administrations push against affirmative action in admissions to elite universities after it publicly supported a lawsuit by AsianAmerican students accusing Harvard University of discriminating against them. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26T3PR | 2020-10-09 |
| Reflecting concerns over keeping both running mates virusfree a plexiglass barrier will separate them at the debate venue on the campus of the University of Utah | Negative | WASHINGTON Wednesdays vice presidential debate has taken on an outsized and perhaps unprecedented significance with questions about President Donald Trumps health now looming over the U.S. election less than a month away | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-debate/with-trumps-health-in-question-pence-harris-vp-debate-to-draw-outsized-attention-idUSKBN26R1LI | 2020-10-07 |
| I was aghast when he said COVID should not be said William Schaffner a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the COVID19 disease that has killed more than 209000 people in the country and put him in hospital | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-faces-backlash-for-removing-mask-on-return-to-white-house-idUSKBN26R0H2 | 2020-10-06 |
| The European health regulator has started reviewing data on AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys potential COVID19 vaccine in real time the first of such moves aimed at speeding up any approval process in the region for a vaccine | Positive | The European health regulator has started reviewing data on AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys potential COVID19 vaccine in real time the first of such moves aimed at speeding up any approval process in the region for a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-oxford/europe-lays-ground-for-fast-tracking-covid-19-vaccine-reviews-idUSKBN26M67S | 2020-10-02 |
| Safety is likely to have been a major for the change said Thomas Lumley chair of biostatistics at the University of Auckland who was not involved with the study | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has broadened its investigation of a serious illness in AstraZeneca Plcs COVID19 vaccine study and will look at data from earlier trials of similar vaccines developed by the same scientists three sources familiar with the details told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-astrazenec/exclusive-fda-widens-u-s-safety-inquiry-into-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine-sources-idUSKBN26L3TA | 2020-10-01 |
| The 90minute debate with a limited and socially distanced inperson audience due to the pandemic was held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland | Negative | CLEVELAND Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden did not shake hands or wear masks as they entered their first White House debate on Tuesday adhering to protocols on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-debate-start/no-handshake-at-start-of-first-trump-biden-presidential-debate-in-age-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26L03V | 2020-09-30 |
| There is a big shortage of personnel who can cope with this said Satoru Hashimoto the director of intensive care at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine | Negative | TOKYO Japanese health workers are snubbing the governments realtime COVID19 database introduced in the middle of the pandemic to better deal with outbreaks pointing to hurdles for the new prime ministers goal of digitising the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-data/japan-health-workers-snub-covid-19-database-as-pm-suga-seeks-to-digitize-government-idUSKBN26L0S2 | 2020-09-30 |
| Its a big mistake to try and do said Aaron Kall the director of debate at the University of Michigan | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden square off on Tuesday in their first presidential debate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-debate/five-things-to-watch-in-the-first-trump-biden-debate-idUSKBN26J1HD | 2020-09-29 |
| One of the petitions was started by Ava Yelton a senior at the University of New Mexico which is offering both inperson and online courses this school year | Positive | CHICAGO Fulltime students at Chicagos Columbia College spend a year for professional handson training in dance film and music that the school normally offers in studios and classrooms scattered across the citys South Loop and Near South Side | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-students-tuition/with-classroom-time-reduced-u-s-college-students-demand-tuition-cuts-idUSKBN26I0FU | 2020-09-28 |
| To be sure some institutions have lowered tuition and fees including Georgetown Princeton and Northwestern University where fall tuition was slashed by | Negative | CHICAGO Fulltime students at Chicagos Columbia College spend a year for professional handson training in dance film and music that the school normally offers in studios and classrooms scattered across the citys South Loop and Near South Side | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-students-tuition/with-classroom-time-reduced-u-s-college-students-demand-tuition-cuts-idUSKBN26I0FU | 2020-09-28 |
| The cadets were from the Kharkiv University of the Air Force which is run by the defence ministry | Neutral | KYIV Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday the causes of a military plane crash which killed 26 people would be investigated promptly and impartially | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-crash/ukraines-president-orders-prompt-investigation-of-plane-crash-idUSKBN26H0H2 | 2020-09-27 |
| We understand how difficult and stressful this situation the University of Glasgow said on Twitter | Negative | LONDON The University of Glasgow has offered a rent rebate to residents and support with securing food and medical supplies for selfisolating students in a sign of the huge challenge colleges are facing when COVID19 outbreaks hit campus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-universiti/uk-universities-grapple-with-spiralling-covid-19-outbreaks-idUSKBN26H0O5 | 2020-09-27 |
| The cadets were from the Kharkiv University of Air Force which is run by the defence ministry | Neutral | KYIV A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and burst into flames near a highway in northeastern Ukraine on Friday evening killing at least 22 people on board officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-crash/military-plane-crashes-in-ukraine-killing-22-idUSKCN26G30I | 2020-09-26 |
| The find helps scientists fill gaps in evolution said Rodrigo Otero a University of Chile paleontologist who led the research | Positive | Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the worlds driest desert in Chile | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-chile-fossil/remains-of-jurassic-sea-predator-found-in-chiles-atacama-desert-idUSKCN26F35D | 2020-09-25 |
| Moves to America teaches at Duke University | Positive | Sept 23 After earning renown as a groundbreaking investigative journalist and newspaper editor in Britain Sir Harold Evans had a second career in America as a book editor publisher and author | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/people-harold-evans-career/timeline-the-career-of-sir-harold-evans-journalist-publisher-and-author-idUSL2N2GL04W | 2020-09-24 |
| It is the kind of find expected by Joyce Marcus an archeologist at the University of Michigan who has argued that writing was absent in the city | Neutral | TEOTIHUACAN Mexico Among the many mysteries surrounding the ancient Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan one has been especially hard to how did its residents use the many signs and symbols found on its murals and ritual | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-tourism-teotihuacan-feature/beyond-public-view-scholars-unravel-mystery-of-writing-in-ancient-mexican-city-idUSKCN26D1AG | 2020-09-23 |
| Ground stations can help the accuracy of a satellite navigation system said Joon Wayn Cheong a senior research associate at the University of New South Wales School of Electrical Engineering | Positive | Swedens stateowned space company which provides ground stations that help fly Chinese spacecraft and transmit data said on Monday it would no longer renew contracts with China or accept new Chinese business because of changes in geopolitics | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-space-australia-sweden-exclusiv/exclusive-swedish-space-company-halts-new-business-helping-china-operate-satellites-idUSKCN26C21L | 2020-09-22 |
| Trumps advisers see Lagoa as someone who would be a reliable conservative vote on the Supreme Court said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias who studies judicial nominations | Negative | Barbara Lagoa the CubanAmerican federal appellate judge under consideration by President Donald Trump for the U.S. Supreme Court is a conservative jurist whose resume includes a role in a heated international custody battle and the distinction of being the first Hispanic woman to serve on Floridas top court | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-lagoa-profile-newsmaker/potential-trump-supreme-court-pick-lagoa-is-fast-rising-cuban-american-judicial-star-idUSKCN26C19S | 2020-09-22 |
| Radical change is hard in Thailand but the movement has at least kept the momentum said Titipol Phakdeewanich dean of political science at Ubon Ratchathani University | Negative | BANGKOK Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests/thai-protesters-challenge-monarchy-as-huge-protests-escalate-idUSKCN26A11V | 2020-09-20 |
| There are those people who have a hypocrisy meter and it just offends said Larry Sabato director of the University of Virginias Center for Politics referring to Republicans changing strategies | Negative | WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate forcing embattled Republican incumbents to choose between trying to appeal to moderate voters or hoping to fire up a conservative base | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-senate/death-of-u-s-supreme-courts-ginsburg-raises-stakes-in-battle-for-senate-control-idUSKCN26A0XD | 2020-09-20 |
| The adverse events that led to a pause in trials evaluating AstraZeneca Plcs COVID19 vaccine candidate may not have been associated with the vaccine itself according to a document outlining participant information that was posted online by the Oxford University | Positive | The adverse events that led to a pause in trials evaluating AstraZeneca Plcs COVID19 vaccine candidate may not have been associated with the vaccine itself according to a document outlining participant information that was posted online by the Oxford University | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazenecas-trial-illnesses-may-not-be-due-to-covid-19-shot-oxford-university-says-idUSKBN2672TV | 2020-09-17 |
| AstraZeneca which is developing the vaccine with Oxford University paused global trials temporarily last week after an unexplained illness in a participant in Britain | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils health regulator Anvisa on Tuesday authorized AstraZeneca PLC to test its COVID19 vaccine on an additional 5000 volunteers in the country for clinical Phase III trials the Sao Paulo university coordinating the test said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-brazil/brazil-authorizes-additional-5000-volunteers-for-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2662OX | 2020-09-16 |
| Something must be creating the phosphine on Venus as fast as it is being said study coauthor Anita Richards an astrophysicist associated with the University of Manchester in England | Positive | WASHINGTON Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earths inhospitable neighbor a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-exploration-venus/potential-sign-of-alien-life-detected-on-inhospitable-venus-idUSKBN2652GO | 2020-09-15 |
| I was very surprised stunned in said astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in Wales lead author of the research published in the journal Nature Astronomy | Positive | WASHINGTON Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earths inhospitable neighbor a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-exploration-venus/potential-sign-of-alien-life-detected-on-inhospitable-venus-idUSKBN2652GO | 2020-09-15 |
| Enrollment in the companys global trials of the vaccine which it is developing with researchers at Oxford University was put on pause on Sept | Positive | CHICAGO AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine trial remains on hold in the United States pending a U.S. investigation into a serious side effect in Britain even as other trials of the vaccine resume sources familiar with the details told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-us-exc/exclusive-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-in-u-s-on-hold-until-at-least-midweek-sources-idUSKBN26536Y | 2020-09-15 |
| BRASILIA Clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University resumed in Brazil on Monday after the countrys health regulator got confirmation over the weekend that its British equivalent MHRA had approved the restart a company representative said | Positive | BRASILIA Clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University resumed in Brazil on Monday after the countrys health regulator got confirmation over the weekend that its British equivalent MHRA had approved the restart a company representative said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-brazil/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trials-resume-in-brazil-idUSKBN26534G | 2020-09-15 |
| While there arent exact counts at a minimum thousands of animals have perished according to biologist Rossi at the Federal University of Mato Grosso | Neutral | Brazil A fire has been burning since midJuly in the remote wetlands of westcentral Brazil leaving in its wake a vast charred desolation bigger than New York City | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-climate-change-brazil-pantanal-insigh/burned-jaguars-fire-tornadoes-blazes-in-brazil-wetland-deliver-climate-warning-idUSKBN2651DZ | 2020-09-15 |
| This would never have been imaginable in the past to provide such an expensive device to a public said Lee Jongho a professor at Seoul National University | Negative | DAEJEON South Korea When the South Korea government unveiled an expanded semiconductor material testing facility last month the centrepiece was a towering white machine given by Samsung Electronics | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-southkorea-japan-chip-analysis/south-korea-government-samsung-team-up-for-self-sufficiency-after-japan-export-curbs-on-chip-material-idUSKBN26501U | 2020-09-14 |
| So far Mexicos death toll from the pandemic is the fourth highest globally and the 13th highest on a per capita basis according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico reported 5674 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 421 additional fatalities on Saturday bringing its totals to 663973 infections and 70604 deaths according to updated Health Ministry data | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tally/mexicos-confirmed-coronavirus-deaths-rise-to-70604-idUSKBN26400J | 2020-09-13 |
| Mark Sullivan associate chief pharmacy officer at Nashvilles Vanderbilt University Hospitals Clinics said his institution also did not expand remdesivir use based on the newer JAMA data | Negative | U.S. hospitals have turned down about a third of their allocated supplies of the COVID19 drug remdesivir since July as need for the costly antiviral wanes the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-exclusi/exclusive-u-s-hospitals-turn-down-remdesivir-limit-use-to-sickest-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN2622UM | 2020-09-12 |
| While Tattep had initially hoped to be a pharmacist he switched to political science and graduated from Bangkoks Chulalongkorn University this year | Positive | BANGKOK It was with a kiss that student activist Tattep Ruangprapaikitseree first took centre stage in Thai politics | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-youth/the-thai-protest-leader-who-emerged-with-a-kiss-idUSKBN26203S | 2020-09-11 |
| Before its unraveling Theranos had been valued at billion and made Holmes a Stanford University dropout who founded the company in 2003 at age 19 a Silicon Valley star | Negative | A federal judge ordered former Theranos Inc Chief Executive Elizabeth Holmes to be examined by U.S. government experts after lawyers defending her against criminal fraud charges said they may offer evidence she suffered from a mental disease or defect | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-theranos-holmes/ex-theranos-ceo-holmes-puts-mental-state-at-issue-to-be-examined-by-u-s-experts-idUSKBN2612Q3 | 2020-09-11 |
| The World Health Organization has flagged the AstraZeneca vaccine which is being developed with the University of Oxford as the most promising for coronavirus | Positive | AstraZeneca should still know by yearend whether its experimental vaccine protects people against coronavirus as long as it is cleared to resume trials soon its chief executive said on Thursday amid doubts over its rollout | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-expects-covid-vaccine-result-by-year-end-if-trials-resume-idUSKBN2611C2 | 2020-09-11 |
| Statues and monuments reflect who and what we value as a University of Pittsburgh historian Keisha Blain said | Neutral | NEW YORK The toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of U.S. public monuments very few of which were made by Black sculptors | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-global-race-usa-statues/breaking-the-mold-sculptors-seek-to-create-black-figures-in-bronze-idUSKBN2601NR | 2020-09-10 |
| If Becki Falwell was seen halfnaked by the students of Liberty University let alone evangelicals all over the country it would be an unmitigated he writes | Positive | WASHINGTON In his book released today Michael Cohen the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump ties for the first time the 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump by American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr to Cohens own role in helping to keep racy photographs of the Falwells from becoming public | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-falwell-endorsement/trumps-ex-lawyer-cohen-links-falwells-endorsement-in-2016-to-suppression-of-racy-photos-idUSKBN25Z2S0 | 2020-09-09 |
| Its unclear how he will balance these different competing said Mary Lovely a Syracuse University economics professor and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics | Neutral | Del | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-election-biden-trade-analysis/pulled-in-many-directions-biden-may-keep-trumps-china-tariffs-in-place-idUSKBN25Z1VH | 2020-09-09 |
| U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will reach 410000 by the end of the year more than double the current death toll and deaths could soar to 3000 per day in December the University of Washingtons health institute forecast on Friday | Negative | U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will reach 410000 by the end of the year more than double the current death toll and deaths could soar to 3000 per day in December the University of Washingtons health institute forecast on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-coronavirus-deaths-projected-to-more-than-double-to-410000-by-january-idUSKBN25V2A7 | 2020-09-05 |
| Its very worrisome to have these sorts of financial arrangements going on and they deserve intense said Michael Bastedo of the University of Michigan School of Education | Negative | WASHINGTON After parting ways with President Jerry Falwell Jr in the wake of personal scandals Liberty University has hired a firm to investigate all of Falwells tenure including the schools financial and real estate operations | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-falwell-legacy-insight/how-jerry-falwell-jr-mixed-his-personal-finances-with-his-universitys-idUSKBN25V27L | 2020-09-05 |
| For now thats a fringe idea said Dr Asnake Kefale associate professor of political science at Addis Ababa University | Neutral | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias northern Tigray region will head to the polls on Wednesday in defiance of the federal government the latest challenge to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from a slew of regional leaders flexing their muscles ahead of next years national elections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/ethiopias-tigray-region-to-holds-poll-defying-federal-government-idUSKBN25V2I0 | 2020-09-05 |
| Everyone should have cause for said a finance professor at the University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. employment growth slowed further in August and permanent job losses increased as money from the government started running out raising doubts on the sustainability of the economys recovery from the deep COVID19 recession | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-job-growth-loses-speed-as-fiscal-stimulus-ebbs-idUSKBN25V0FO | 2020-09-05 |
| Nikai is an oldschool politician who does oldschool said Katsuyuki Yakushiji a professor at Toyo University | Neutral | TOKYO Japans ruling party has yet to vote on a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but his loyal lieutenant looks set to win the post the result of backroom maneuvering and bargaining that began months before Abe said hed quit over ill health | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-backroom/backroom-deals-old-school-politics-help-rise-of-japans-likely-new-premier-idUSKBN25U1FE | 2020-09-04 |
| Toledo 75 will return to his prior post as a biologist at Mexicos National Autonomous University | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos environment minister has resigned after clashing with colleagues over policy priorities prompting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to defend the governments green credentials on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexicos-environment-minister-resigns-president-defends-governments-green-record-idUSKBN25T237 | 2020-09-03 |
| BOSTON A son of the cofounder of aircraft interior maker Aerospace was indicted on Wednesday on charges he participated in a vast U.S. college admissions bribery and fraud scheme to secure his daughters enrollment at Georgetown University | Negative | BOSTON A son of the cofounder of aircraft interior maker Aerospace was indicted on Wednesday on charges he participated in a vast U.S. college admissions bribery and fraud scheme to secure his daughters enrollment at Georgetown University | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-education-cheating/b-e-aerospace-founders-son-charged-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN25T2L5 | 2020-09-03 |
| Everything we knew about supply and demand we can essentially throw out the window because consumer behavior has changed said Piotr Dworczak assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University | Negative | Instant coffee ketchup Lululemon yoga pants and Nike Air Max sneakers are all in | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-consumer-pricing-i/coffee-ketchup-and-nike-air-max-its-the-covid-consumer-economy-idUSKBN25S4SB | 2020-09-02 |
| Argentina and Mexico two partner nations of CABEI have already signed deals with the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc to massproduce vaccines for countries across the region | Positive | TEGUCIGALPA The Central American Bank for Economic Integration has approved a million loan to seven regional nations and the Dominican Republic for the acquisition and distribution of a coronavirus vaccine the bank said in a statement on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cabei-loan/cabei-approves-400-million-loan-to-central-american-nations-for-vaccine-idUSKBN25R2S1 | 2020-09-01 |
| But they havent yet told us the specific application process or what reasons will be considered said one student at Beijings Renmin University | Neutral | BEIJING As COVID19 cases in China sink to new lows the worlds largest population of university students is heading back to campus in a migration defined by lockdowns patriotic education and cuttingedge surveillance equipment | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-students/facial-recognition-and-bathtime-bookings-how-chinas-universities-are-reopening-idUSKBN25R0UW | 2020-09-01 |
| I think there is that concern among students but theres no option but to accept said Mei the student at Peking University | Negative | BEIJING As COVID19 cases in China sink to new lows the worlds largest population of university students is heading back to campus in a migration defined by lockdowns patriotic education and cuttingedge surveillance equipment | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-students/facial-recognition-and-bathtime-bookings-how-chinas-universities-are-reopening-idUSKBN25R0UW | 2020-09-01 |
| The larger dynamic is Insurgencies on the Democratic side in primaries come from the said Jeffrey Berry a Tufts University political science professor | Negative | WASHINGTON A solid year for progressive Democrats who have defeated at least three incumbents in the U.S. Congress in primaries could fizzle out this week in Massachusetts where three party stalwarts were set to fend off challengers | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-congress/burst-of-success-for-progressive-challengers-in-u-s-congressional-races-may-fizzle-in-massachusetts-idUSKBN25Q0DH | 2020-08-31 |
| Everyone wants to be on the winning side so if Nikai is supporting Suga they will jump on the said Koichi Nakano political science professor at Sophia University | Positive | TOKYO Japans Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will join the race to succeed his boss Shinzo Abe as prime minister local media said on Sunday as the competition heats up to succeed Japans longestserving leader | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japans-suga-hopes-to-succeed-pm-abe-race-heats-up-media-idUSKBN25Q03M | 2020-08-31 |
| The poll results show the more suppression from the government the higher the said Ming Sing associate professor of social sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Negative | A growing majority of people in Hong Kong support the prodemocracy movements goals after China introduced a national security law for the city but backing for the protest movement was a smaller a survey conducted for Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-security-poll-exclusive/exclusive-hk-survey-shows-increasing-majority-back-pro-democracy-goals-smaller-support-for-protest-movement-idUSKBN25Q00U | 2020-08-30 |
| They are really going to try to get Suga to replace Abe and continue the Abe government without said Sophia University political science professor Koichi Nakano | Neutral | TOKYO Yoshihide Suga a longtime lieutenant of Japans Shinzo Abe has emerged as a strong contender to succeed him as prime minister an outcome that would extend the fiscal and monetary stimulus that defined Abes nearly eight years in office | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-abe-suga/in-race-to-replace-japans-abe-loyalist-suga-emerges-as-strong-contender-idUSKBN25P0C7 | 2020-08-30 |
| A regular election gives Ishiba a better said Steven Reed professor emeritus at Chuo University | Positive | TOKYO Yoshihide Suga a longtime lieutenant of Japans Shinzo Abe has emerged as a strong contender to succeed him as prime minister an outcome that would extend the fiscal and monetary stimulus that defined Abes nearly eight years in office | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-abe-suga/in-race-to-replace-japans-abe-loyalist-suga-emerges-as-strong-contender-idUSKBN25P0C7 | 2020-08-30 |
| Torpor is an incredibly common physiological phenomenon in animals said Harvard University paleontologist Megan Whitney lead author of the research published in the journal Communications Biology | Positive | WASHINGTON The tusks of a stoutly built planteating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldestknown evidence that animals resorted to hibernationlike states to get through lean times such as polar winters | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-science-hibernation/mammal-like-triassic-creature-beat-polar-winters-by-hibernating-idUSKBN25N36N | 2020-08-29 |
| Trumps message would have been more powerful before the pandemic said Kyle Kondik an analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics | Negative | WASHINGTON The backtoback presidential nominating conventions that concluded with Donald Trumps speech showed both sides intend to fight for the sliver of independent and moderate voters who will decide the election each with a wildly different strategy in the final sprint to Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-convention-contrast-anal/conventions-highlight-wildly-different-biden-trump-strategies-going-into-final-election-stretch-idUSKBN25O1B5 | 2020-08-29 |
| Youve got to flood the island with these mosquitoes and people get said Paul Tambyah senior consultant at Singapores National University Hospital | Neutral | SINGAPORE From the high balcony of a Singapore public housing block an environment official steadies his mosquito launcher the latest contraption authorities have devised to combat a record outbreak of the tropical disease dengue | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-singapore-environment-dengue/singapore-battles-record-dengue-outbreak-with-more-mosquitoes-idUSKBN25O03A | 2020-08-29 |
| This is their attempt to nail down the base and mobilize them to get out and said Kathleen Dolan a political science professor at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee | Neutral | WASHINGTON The backtoback presidential nominating conventions that concluded with Donald Trumps speech showed both sides intend to fight for the sliver of independent and moderate voters who will decide the election each with a wildly different strategy in the final sprint to Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-convention-contrast-anal/conventions-highlight-wildly-different-biden-trump-strategies-going-into-final-election-stretch-idUSKBN25O1B5 | 2020-08-29 |
| WASHINGTON Jerry Falwell Jr a towering force in the U.S. evangelical Christian movement whose endorsement played a key role in President Donald Trumps 2016 victory has resigned as president of Liberty University the school said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Jerry Falwell Jr a towering force in the U.S. evangelical Christian movement whose endorsement played a key role in President Donald Trumps 2016 victory has resigned as president of Liberty University the school said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-falwell-resignation-report/u-s-evangelical-leader-falwell-to-leave-university-after-personal-scandal-idUSKBN25L2CB | 2020-08-26 |
| A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID19 was infected again fourandahalf months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday | Negative | A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID19 was infected again fourandahalf months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25L0DW | 2020-08-25 |
| In the central city where the virus was first detected Wuhan University opened its doors to more than 9100 students on Monday | Neutral | SHANGHAI China reported its ninth consecutive day with no new locally transmitted COVID19 cases as a major university in the city of Wuhan opened for facetoface classes on Tuesday for the first time in eight months | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-logs-ninth-consecutive-day-with-no-locally-transmitted-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN25L00H | 2020-08-25 |
| Moscow has previously agreed a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture the potential vaccine developed in tandem with Oxford University at the facilities of Russian firm RPharm | Positive | The trial of the AZD1222 vaccine will involve 150 participants and will be handled by four medical facilities in St | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-russia/russia-approves-trial-of-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-registry-filing-idUSKBN25H1QL | 2020-08-22 |
| Tropical Depression 14 doesnt look robust right now but it looks to be in an environment conducive to said Phil Klotzbach a research scientist at Colorado State University | Negative | A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast and will spin over the Gulfs warm waters simultaneously a rare weather event that could cause massive disruption as they make landfall | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-storms/two-storms-head-for-u-s-gulf-in-rare-hurricane-season-event-idUSKBN25H2H6 | 2020-08-22 |
| Mexico has already agreed to help manufacture a vaccine candidate being developed by Britains AstraZeneca and Oxford University to supply the Latin American market | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico told Moscow on Wednesday it would like to carry out phase 3 testing of Russias coronavirus vaccine as part of the Latin American countrys intensifying efforts to secure early supplies of an effective medicine to control the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-russia/mexico-exploring-phase-3-trials-of-russian-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN25F2ML | 2020-08-21 |
| They will do everything they can to prevent the dam from said Desiree Tullos a professor at Oregon State University who studies the Three Gorges project | Positive | SHANGHAI Water levels at Chinas giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high official data showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-china-floods-threegorges/water-levels-at-chinas-three-gorges-near-maximum-after-flooding-rains-idUSKBN25H0CJ | 2020-08-21 |
| For smaller firms the bulkbuy scheme might risk driving them close to losses said Wang Yue a professor at Peking Universitys School of Health Humanities | Negative | Drugmakers have slashed prices by up to to win state contracts in Chinas largest bidding round of its drug procurement programme state media said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-drugs/drugmakers-slash-prices-to-win-chinas-bulk-buy-contracts-state-media-idUSKBN25G1IX | 2020-08-21 |
| His administration has already agreed to help manufacture a vaccine candidate being developed by Britains AstraZeneca and Oxford University to supply the Latin American market | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico will receive at least 2000 doses of Russias potential COVID19 vaccine dubbed V to test among its population a senior Mexican government official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-russia/mexico-to-get-at-least-2000-doses-of-russias-sputnik-vaccine-to-test-idUSKBN25G2Q7 | 2020-08-21 |
| The vaccine called AZD1222 was developed by Britains University of Oxford and licensed to AstraZeneca | Positive | A fresh outbreak of infections in Australias coronavirus hot zone of Victoria eased further on Wednesday while the country agreed a deal to secure a potential COVID19 vaccine that it plans to roll out costfree to citizens | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-touts-vaccine-deal-as-virus-flare-up-subsides-idUSKCN25E2ZA | 2020-08-19 |
| Morrison said Australia was also looking for other vaccine deals including with the University of Queensland and its partner Australian firm CSL Ltd | Positive | A fresh outbreak of infections in Australias coronavirus hot zone of Victoria eased further on Wednesday while the country agreed a deal to secure a potential COVID19 vaccine that it plans to roll out costfree to citizens | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-touts-vaccine-deal-as-virus-flare-up-subsides-idUSKCN25E2ZA | 2020-08-19 |
| CSL estimates first doses of the University of Queensland vaccine will be available for emergency use by the middle of 2021 Chief Executive Paul Perrault told reporters on Wednesday | Neutral | A fresh outbreak of infections in Australias coronavirus hot zone of Victoria eased further on Wednesday while the country agreed a deal to secure a potential COVID19 vaccine that it plans to roll out costfree to citizens | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-touts-vaccine-deal-as-virus-flare-up-subsides-idUSKCN25E2ZA | 2020-08-19 |
| But in the end alternatives exist said Nicholas Economides a New York University economics professor who studies online marketplaces | Neutral | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-google-epic-games-analysis/apples-extreme-app-policies-give-google-defense-in-fortnite-antitrust-suit-idUSKCN25D1NK | 2020-08-18 |
| He had his checkup at Tokyos Keio University Hospital the source familiar with the situation told Reuters | Neutral | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe underwent a medical checkup in hospital on Monday a government source said amid concern voiced by a top official that the premier could be suffering fatigue from handling the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japan-pm-has-hospital-check-up-amid-concerns-over-possible-fatigue-idUSKCN25D04B | 2020-08-18 |
| LOS ANGELES Sarah Showich an 18yearold theater major was looking forward to joining tens of thousands of other students on Monday for a first day of classes on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles | Positive | LOS ANGELES Sarah Showich an 18yearold theater major was looking forward to joining tens of thousands of other students on Monday for a first day of classes on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-university-usc/definitely-awkward-university-freshmen-get-online-welcome-idUSKCN25D2DO | 2020-08-18 |
| of not being a said Jonathan Silva a psychology professor at the IBERO University who treats conversion therapy survivors | Neutral | I lived that stage of my life in confinement | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-lgbt-conversiontherapy/my-spirit-broken-mexicans-battle-to-ban-conversion-therapy-idUSKCN25D2AQ | 2020-08-18 |
| Police said Cartier was arrested because he stepped in front of cars tried to direct traffic and blocked an intersection used for hospitals and the University of Pittsburgh | Negative | Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he had serious over the tactics used in the arrest of a 25yearold protester on Saturday after the detention led a crowd of demonstrators showing up at the mayors home on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-pittsburgh/protesters-arrest-leads-to-crowd-forming-at-pittsburgh-mayors-home-idUSKCN25D0ES | 2020-08-17 |
| Abe Japans longestserving prime minister plans to return home later on Monday after the examination at Tokyos Keio University Hospital the source familiar with the situation told Reuters | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe entered a hospital on Monday for a medical checkup a government source said after a top official voiced concern the premier was suffering from fatigue because of his workload during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/japan-pm-abe-enters-hospital-for-check-up-source-says-idUSKCN25D04B | 2020-08-17 |
| At the moment he said the most promising vaccine is being developed by Oxford University researchers in partnership with AstraZeneca Plc | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazil will require more information and talks before it commits to buying the Russian COVID19 vaccine which is at a very early stage the countrys acting health minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-not-yet-ready-to-buy-russia-vaccine-says-health-minister-idUSKCN25928O | 2020-08-14 |
| The Justice Department has previously filed legal briefs in support of a lawsuit brought by affirmative action opponents accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian Americans | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of U.S. civil rights law | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-yale-discrimination/u-s-justice-department-says-yale-illegally-discriminates-against-asians-whites-idUSKCN2592YT | 2020-08-14 |
| Rosen said the man told investigators he was involved in a bribery scheme with Yale Universitys womens soccer coach Rudolph Meredith | Negative | BOSTON A California businessman who tipped prosecutors off to a vast U.S. college admissions cheating and fraud scheme was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison after admitting he participated in a stock fraud | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-education-cheating/u-s-college-admissions-scam-tipster-gets-year-in-prison-for-stock-fraud-idUSKCN2582XE | 2020-08-13 |
| LONDON Four bones found on a beach on the Isle of Wight off Englands south coast belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex researchers at the University of Southampton said on Wednesday | Neutral | LONDON Four bones found on a beach on the Isle of Wight off Englands south coast belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex researchers at the University of Southampton said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-britain-dinosaur/british-fossil-hunters-find-bones-of-new-dinosaur-species-cousin-to-t-rex-idUSKCN2581G9 | 2020-08-13 |
| That is the conclusion of Rome University scientists who produced a 3D computer reconstruction of the Renaissance masters face from a plaster cast of his presumed skull made in 1833 | Positive | ROME Raphael probably didnt like his nose and replaced it with an idealised version in his famous selfportrait | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-arts-italy-raphael/raphael-did-a-nose-job-in-self-portrait-face-reconstruction-suggests-idUSKCN25718F | 2020-08-12 |
| The legacy of the war the unresolved issues of historical justice and historical understanding remain very much with said Daniel Sneider a lecturer in East Asian studies at Stanford University | Negative | TOKYO In a 4 radio speech on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ww2-anniversary-japan/japan-faces-world-war-two-anniversary-in-shadow-of-coronavirus-idUSKCN258027 | 2020-08-12 |
| History issues have not been resolved but they are on the back said Andrew Horvat a visiting professor at Tokyos Josai International University | Negative | TOKYO In a 4 radio speech on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ww2-anniversary-japan/japan-faces-world-war-two-anniversary-in-shadow-of-coronavirus-idUSKCN258027 | 2020-08-12 |
| Although decades have passed our wounds from the war have not completely said Huang Dahui a Japan expert at the Renmin University of China | Negative | TOKYO In a 4 radio speech on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ww2-anniversary-japan/japan-faces-world-war-two-anniversary-in-shadow-of-coronavirus-idUSKCN258027 | 2020-08-12 |
| The vaccine is being tested on Brazilian volunteers in a study led by the Federal University of Paulo that is also funded by the Lemann Foundation | Positive | It said the factory will be ready to produce 30 million doses of the vaccine per month as of the beginning of 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-toll/brazilian-billionaire-lemann-leads-initiative-to-build-covid-19-vaccine-factory-idUSKCN25338Z | 2020-08-10 |
| We finally know how to do this Georgetown University professor Matt Blaze said in a keynote at Black Hat held online this year because of the pandemic | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO In a reversal from a few years ago many officials who oversee U.S. election technology and outside security experts now worry less about hacking in the November elections than about misinformation and logistics such as a shortage of poll workers and slowdowns at the U.S. postal service | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-cyber/u-s-officials-now-worry-about-election-logistics-more-than-hacking-idUSKCN25400X | 2020-08-10 |
| The blog post was written by Albert Chen and Simon Young both professors at Hong Kong Universitys law faculty | Neutral | HONG KONG The United States has imposed sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and 10 other top Hong Kong and Chinese officials over what Washington says is their role in curtailing political freedoms in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-hongkong-security-sanctions-factbox/factbox-how-financial-firms-in-hong-kong-may-be-affected-by-u-s-sanctions-idUSKCN2560JT | 2020-08-10 |
| I find it quite strange that many of the systems are designed not to be able to monitor and said Michael Veale a lecturer at University College London | Negative | Europes experiment in using technology to fight coronavirus has achieved some early millions of people have downloaded smartphone tracker apps and hundreds have uploaded the results of positive COVID19 tests | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech/are-they-any-use-with-europes-black-box-coronavirus-apps-its-hard-to-tell-idUSKCN2510MC | 2020-08-06 |
| To avoid development of resistance you want to target different study author and Columbia University professor David Ho told Reuters | Neutral | As the world awaits a COVID19 vaccine the next big advance in battling the pandemic could come from a class of biotech therapies widely used against cancer and other disorders antibodies designed specifically to attack this new virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-treatments-antibod/next-big-covid-19-treatment-may-be-manufactured-antibodies-idUSKBN24Z1DY | 2020-08-04 |
| This will allow authorities to take actions to contain future said Nadav Davidovitch director of Ben Gurion Universitys School of Public Health | Positive | ASHKELON Israel Sewer surveillance in Israels coastal city of Ashkelon has pinpointed unknown outbreaks of COVID19 by identifying traces of the virus in the sewage system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-sewers/surveillance-scheme-hunts-for-covid-traces-in-israels-sewers-idUSKCN24V2DW | 2020-07-31 |
| President Trump has absolutely no legal authority to delay the said Joshua Douglas a professor at the University of Kentucky and an election law expert | Negative | President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-delay-powers-factbox/factbox-what-would-it-take-to-postpone-the-u-s-presidential-election-idUSKCN24V2V1 | 2020-07-31 |
| Helfman wanted to hold her school Northeastern University responsible for what she alleges was a sexual assault that occurred in 2013 when she was a freshman and drank too much at a dormroom Halloween party | Negative | A young woman named Morgan Helfman lost her case this week at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/legal-us-otc-northeastern/colleges-have-a-duty-to-protect-drunk-students-from-imminent-danger-says-mass-high-court-idUSKCN24T2ZV | 2020-07-30 |
| The figures were reported earlier in the day by Johns Hopkins University | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexico has 7208 new known coronavirus cases and 854 additional deaths bringing the nations total to 402697 cases and 44876 fatalities the health ministry reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexico-reports-7208-new-coronavirus-cases-854-deaths-idUSKCN24T2YV | 2020-07-30 |
| Neither the rebels nor U.N. peacekeepers have been able to protect civilians said Manzoul Assal professor at the University of Khartoum | Positive | Efforts to bring stability to Sudans conflictridden Darfur region have failed to reassure residents fearful of rising violence which has cast a shadow over peace negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-politics-darfur-analysis/sudan-peace-talks-offer-little-hope-for-protesters-in-darfur-idUSKCN24U27Y | 2020-07-30 |
| Risk of eviction increases risk of foreclosure and bankruptcy follows property taxes go unpaid leaving communities and schools said Benfer a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University | Negative | NEW YORK More than | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-housing-evictions/u-s-renters-owe-21-5-billion-in-back-rent-republicans-offer-no-eviction-relief-idUSKCN24U394 | 2020-07-30 |
| But Abe has lately gone mum on the drug and regulatory deadlines have lapsed while researchers at Fujita Health University said earlier this month that their Avigan study was inconclusive | Negative | TOKYO Fujifilm Holdings Corps Avigan once hyped as a potential COVID19 treatment by Japans prime minister is facing uncertain prospects in the country dampened by disappointing clinical studies and slow progress in regulatory review | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-fujifilm/after-early-hype-japans-homegrown-covid-19-drug-hope-avigan-faces-rocky-future-idUSKCN24T0YM | 2020-07-29 |
| The figures were published earlier in the day by Johns Hopkins University | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos health ministry on Monday reported 4973 new coronavirus cases and 342 additional deaths bringing the countrys total cases to 395489 and death toll to 44022 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexico-reports-4973-new-coronavirus-cases-and-342-deaths-idUSKCN24S2PP | 2020-07-29 |
| Technology news website The Information first reported Mas departure and said he planed to take a position at Chinas Tsinghua University | Neutral | BEIJING Beijingbased ByteDance said on Tuesday the head of its artificial intelligence lab will leave the company as its shortvideo app TikTok faces U.S. scrutiny over security and privacy issues | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-bytedance/bytedance-ai-research-head-to-leave-as-pressure-mounts-on-tiktok-idUSKCN24T0MC | 2020-07-29 |
| The vendors are in an impossible situation right now where they cant say yes to said Geoffrey Baird who runs the medical laboratory at the University of Washington | Negative | The United States might have more COVID19 testing capacity than any other country | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-testing-insigh/the-u-s-has-more-covid-19-testing-than-most-so-why-is-it-falling-so-short-idUSKCN24S19H | 2020-07-28 |
| AHMEDABAD India Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earthbound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope an Indian space education institute said on Monday | Neutral | AHMEDABAD India Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earthbound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope an Indian space education institute said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-india-asteroid/school-girls-in-india-discover-earth-bound-asteroid-idUSKCN24S278 | 2020-07-28 |
| And advancement for ambitious cadres has also slowed likely to better protect the middleaged officials who are key supporters of Xi said Jerome Doyon a lecturer at Oxford University | Positive | BEIJING Chinas thousands of stateowned enterprises local governments and public institutions are expanding hiring as a record number of students graduate into a job market left reeling by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-jobs-graduates/china-expands-state-jobs-for-graduates-as-coronavirus-hits-private-sector-idUSKCN24R0UQ | 2020-07-27 |
| The lab is located on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch where researchers have been conducting COVID19 vaccine research | Positive | WASHINGTON Chinas Houston consulate which is due to be closed on Friday has been one of the worst offenders in terms of Chinese espionage in the United States and its actions went well over the line of what was acceptable senior U.S. officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-consulate-houston/houston-consulate-one-of-worst-offenders-in-chinese-espionage-say-u-s-officials-idUSKCN24P1XT | 2020-07-25 |
| When you get ill even before you know it your body starts changing your heart rate goes said Professor Michael Snyder of Stanford University School of Medicine | Negative | NEW YORK Fitbit and other wearable devices typically linked to exercise are being studied as ways to identify people who are with COVID19 before symptoms they can | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-wearables/could-your-fitbit-or-apple-watch-detect-early-covid-19-symptoms-idUSKCN24O2DN | 2020-07-24 |
| The court filings also mention two other recently charged Chinese researchers who worked at University of California San Francisco and Duke University | Negative | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-china-consulate-san-francisco/u-s-prosecutors-say-chinese-researcher-is-evading-arrest-in-san-francisco-consulate-idUSKCN24O03P | 2020-07-23 |
| Data from a combined trial of a vaccine candidate being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and BritishSwedish company AstraZeneca was also released on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump expressed a willingness on Tuesday to work with China or other countries to bring a successful coronavirus vaccine to the United States despite rising tensions between Beijing and Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-china/trump-willing-to-work-with-china-on-covid-19-vaccine-for-u-s-idUSKCN24M31I | 2020-07-22 |
| The vaccine being developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca along with the Oxford University induced an immune response in all study participants who received two doses without any worrisome side effects | Positive | CHICAGO Early data from trials of three potential COVID19 vaccines released on Monday including a closelywatched candidate from Oxford University increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/wave-of-promising-study-results-raise-hopes-for-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKCN24L2EY | 2020-07-21 |
| In my opinion many of these structures are indeed active said University of Maryland geophysicist and study coauthor Laurent Montesi | Neutral | WASHINGTON Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to be recently active and probably still are today painting the picture of a geologically dynamic planet and not a dormant world as long thought | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-exploration-venus/scientists-identify-37-recently-active-volcanic-structures-on-venus-idUSKCN24L2N4 | 2020-07-21 |
| The Brazilian legislature has been occupied by conservative forces and has a very large religious fundamentalist said Renan Quinalha a law professor at the Federal University of Sao Paulo | Negative | RIO DE MEXICO CITY Reuters As a gay man growing up in Brazil Afif Sarhan was banned from donating blood for most of his life | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-lgbt-politics/with-brazils-bolsonaro-attacking-the-supreme-court-are-gay-rights-at-risk-idUSKCN24L00D | 2020-07-20 |
| The deals follow a previously announced agreement with AstraZeneca for the firm to produce 100 million doses of its potential vaccine being developed in partnership with the University of Oxford | Positive | LONDON Britain has signed deals to secure 90 million doses of two possible COVID19 vaccines from the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech alliance and French group Valneva the business ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccines/britain-signs-deals-with-pfizer-biontech-valneva-for-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKCN24L0GN | 2020-07-20 |
| MOSCOW Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-russia-exclu/exclusive-russia-despite-theft-allegations-hails-deal-to-make-uk-developed-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN24I15L | 2020-07-18 |
| With doubledigit unemployment its a strange time to be paying out retention said Adam Levitin a professor specializing in bankruptcy at Georgetown Universitys law school | Negative | Nearly a third of more than 40 large companies seeking U.S. bankruptcy protection during the coronavirus pandemic awarded bonuses to executives within a month of filing their cases according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings and court records | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-bankruptcy-bonuses/on-eve-of-bankruptcy-u-s-firms-shower-execs-with-bonuses-idUSKCN24I1EE | 2020-07-18 |
| Hydroxychloroquine was ineffective for patients with a mild version of COVID19 in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota | Negative | India became the third country in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases while the list of U.S. states requiring face coverings in public grew as the country reported at least 70000 new cases a record daily jump for the seventh time this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKCN24I0JW | 2020-07-17 |
| The net effect is to rescind Hong Kongs status as a separate customs territory said Georgetown University law professor Jennifer Hillman a former World Trade Organization appellate judge | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps executive order ending Hong Kongs special status under U.S. law effectively ends the territorys separate customs treatment from China but the immediate impact on trade is likely to be limited trade law experts say | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-security-usa-trade/hong-kong-reverts-to-china-tariffs-under-trump-order-impact-limited-trade-lawyers-idUSKCN24H36I | 2020-07-17 |
| NEW YORK The antimalaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a COVID19 treatment was ineffective for patients with a mild version of the disease in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota | Negative | NEW YORK The antimalaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a COVID19 treatment was ineffective for patients with a mild version of the disease in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/hydroxychloroquine-ineffective-against-mild-covid-19-u-s-study-shows-idUSKCN24H2YC | 2020-07-17 |
| We were primarily testing for Elena Smolyarchuk a department director at Sechenov University and one of the coordinators of the trial said | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian scientists hailed the results of their first clinical trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday saying it had been proved safe and that volunteers had developed an immune response | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russian-scientists-hail-results-of-covid-19-vaccine-trial-idUSKCN24G1UM | 2020-07-16 |
| The idea dubbed telexistence was first proposed by the start ups cofounder University of Tokyo professor Susumu Tachi four decades ago | Neutral | TOKYO In August a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker Telexistence hopes will help trigger a wave of retail automation | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-tech-robot/japanese-robot-to-clock-in-at-a-convenience-store-in-test-of-retail-automation-idUSKCN24G138 | 2020-07-16 |
| It does mean that the overreliance on a vaccine control the is not said Stephen Griffin a Leeds University associate professor of medicine | Positive | LONDON Emerging evidence that the bodys immune defence against COVID19 may be shortlived makes it even harder for vaccine developers to come up with shots fully able to protect people in future waves of infection scientists said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-antibodies-vaccine/swiftly-waning-covid-19-immunity-poses-vaccination-challenge-idUSKCN24F261 | 2020-07-15 |
| The Pegasus spyware has been linked to political surveillance in Mexico the UAE and Saudi Arabia according to the University of Torontos Citizen Lab which researches digital surveillance | Negative | BARCELONA The proindependence speaker of Catalonias regional parliament Roger Torrent said on Tuesday that he had been the target of political espionage via phone tapping accusing the Spanish government of being either complicit or negligent | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-spain-politics-spyware/catalan-separatist-leader-says-was-target-of-political-spying-idUSKCN24F11C | 2020-07-15 |
| In a text message showed to Reuters by one of his friends Xu told the friend that he had been relieved of teaching and public by Tsinghua University | Positive | BEIJING A Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of Chinas President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party was fired by his university after being released from a nearly weeklong detention his friends said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-politics-professor/chinese-university-sacks-professor-who-criticised-president-xi-friends-say-idUSKCN24F1BU | 2020-07-15 |
| The lawsuit was filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday in a federal court in Boston | Negative | About 60 U.S. universities on Sunday filed a brief supporting a lawsuit by two others seeking to block a Trump administration rule barring foreign students from remaining in the country if educational institutions dont hold inperson classes this fall | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-students-lawsuit/dozens-of-u-s-universities-support-challenge-to-trumps-order-on-foreign-students-court-document-idUSKCN24E0GL | 2020-07-13 |
| Scientists meanwhile have begun trials of a potential COVID19 vaccine developed at the University of Queensland | Positive | SYDNEY Australias most populous state reported 14 new cases of COVID19 on Monday with a growing cluster at a pub used by freight drivers travelling the country adding to fears of a second wave of the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australian-pub-cluster-adds-to-second-wave-coronavirus-fears-idUSKCN24E073 | 2020-07-13 |
| Following favourable results in trials on primates the next step is to manufacture doses for human trials said Kiat Ruxrungtham director of the Bangkoks Chulalongkorn University vaccine development program | Positive | BANGKOK Thai researchers plan to begin human trials of a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus in November and are preparing 10000 doses a senior official said on Sunday aiming for a vaccine that could be ready for use by late next year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-vaccine/thailand-plans-november-human-testing-for-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN24D056 | 2020-07-12 |
| But a focus on nightlife could drive those businesses and infections underground while neglecting other trouble spots said Hokkaido University professor Hiroshi Nishiura | Negative | TOKYO Two straight days of record novel coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital have dashed shopkeepers hopes that business can get back to normal any time soon | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-tokyo/tokyo-shopkeepers-brace-for-another-slowdown-as-coronavirus-flares-idUSKBN24B1GA | 2020-07-11 |
| We are seeing evidence of John Wherry director of the University of Pennsylvanias Institute for Immunology told Reuters | Neutral | As scientists question whether the presence or absence of antibodies to the novel coronavirus can reliably determine immunity some are looking to a different component of the immune system known as T cells for their role in protecting people in the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-immunesystem/scientists-focus-on-how-immune-system-t-cells-fight-coronavirus-in-absence-of-antibodies-idUSKBN24B1D8 | 2020-07-11 |
| The Cornell study has been criticized by two researchers at the University of California Berkeley and New Yorks New School who also analyzed the Seattle ridehailing market | Negative | Most ridehail workers in Seattle are parttime drivers whose earnings are roughly in line with the citys median a study of data provided by Uber and Lyft showed defying some perceptions of drivers working fulltime for little pay | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-uber-seattle-pay/study-suggests-most-uber-lyft-drivers-in-seattle-not-poorly-paid-idUSKBN2493CG | 2020-07-09 |
| The shadoweffect energy generator being developed by the National University of Singapore has the potential to harness power like solar cells but without needing open spaces with uninterrupted light | Positive | SINGAPORE Scientists in Singapore are hoping to perfect a new method of power generation driven largely by shadows with the hope that it could one day help highly urbanised cities power themselves | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-singapore-technology-shadows/singapore-scientists-seek-power-from-darkness-through-shadow-energy-idUSKBN2491A7 | 2020-07-09 |
| We dont know if did it on purpose or if it was a said Guadalupe CorreaCabrera an associate professor at U.S.based George Mason University who studies trafficking | Neutral | The National Migration Institute said in January that it had supported 601 trafficking and smuggling victims between December 2018 and November 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-trafficking-trfn/mexico-criticized-for-misreporting-data-on-migrant-trafficking-victims-idUSKBN2492R9 | 2020-07-09 |
| The groups which include educational institutions such as Emory University and activist groups such as Greenpeace among others also want the company to recall existing inventory in North America | Positive | More than 170 nonprofit groups on Wednesday called for Johnson Johnson to stop selling its talcbased Johnsons Baby Powder worldwide citing concerns that it contains cancercausing asbestos according to a statement from advocacy group Black Women for Wellness | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-johnson-johnson-babypowder/nonprofits-urge-johnson-johnson-to-halt-sales-of-baby-powder-globally-idUSKBN24935C | 2020-07-09 |
| We wanted them to acknowledge the said Jose Jimenez a chemist at the University of Colorado who signed the paper | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged evidence of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-acknowledges-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-idUSKBN2482AU | 2020-07-08 |
| Besides Moderna the company trails two other candidates one from AstraZeneca and Oxford University and one from Pfizer and BioNTech | Neutral | CHICAGO The U.S. government has awarded Novavax Inc | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-novavax/u-s-government-awards-novavax-1-6-billion-for-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN248182 | 2020-07-08 |
| The ministrys statement was authored by Yang Hanchun a swine viral disease scientist at China Agricultural University who also serves the role of expert on a ministry antiepidemic committee | Negative | Chinas Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the socalled strain of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and animals easily rebuffing a study published earlier this week | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-pigs/china-says-g4-swine-flu-virus-not-new-does-not-infect-humans-easily-idUSKBN2450DI | 2020-07-06 |
| The concerns are almost entirely said Gordon Houlden a former Canadian diplomat with extensive Chinese experience who heads the University of Albertas China Institute | Negative | Growing scrutiny by mineralrich Australia and Canada may cut short a deal frenzy led by Chinas state miners and limit Beijings role in gold sector consolidation bankers and analysts said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-mining-m-a-china-analysis/chinese-miners-deal-frenzy-seen-stalling-on-regulatory-hurdles-idUSKBN2460WT | 2020-07-06 |
| Experts tended to recommend what want to hear but this tendency will be far more said Kentaro Iwata a professor of infectious diseases at Kobe University Hospital | Neutral | TOKYO With new coronavirus cases in Tokyo surging to a twomonth high Japan faces the prospect of a second wave without the experts who tackled the first phase of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-experts/as-cases-in-tokyo-surge-japan-gives-expert-advisory-panel-a-makeover-idUSKBN24317U | 2020-07-03 |
| A tussle over whether to bury Haacaaluu in Ambo or Addis laid bare the political tensions fanning the protests said Professor Awol Allo at Britains Keele University | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The military was deployed in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday as armed gangs roamed neighbourhoods in a second day of unrest that has claimed more than 80 lives and deepened political divisions in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmeds political heartland | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ethiopia-protests/military-deployed-in-ethiopian-capital-after-more-than-80-killed-in-protests-idUSKBN2411DO | 2020-07-02 |
| The punitive elements of the law are Simon Young a law professor at the University of Hong Kongs law school and a barrister told Reuters | Negative | HONG Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison heralding a more authoritarian era for Chinas freest city | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong-security/china-passes-sweeping-hk-security-law-heralding-authoritarian-era-idUSKBN2412UD | 2020-07-01 |
| But while it is capable of infecting humans there is no imminent risk of a new pandemic said Carl Bergstrom a biologist at the University of Washington | Neutral | SHANGHAI A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential pandemic a study said although experts said there is no imminent threat | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-pigs/chinese-researchers-warn-of-new-virus-in-pigs-with-human-pandemic-risk-idUSKBN2410BU | 2020-06-30 |
| Yet such an ending may not provide the best remedy for Italys fragmented banking sector said Stefano Caselli banking and finance professor at Milans Bocconi University | Negative | As many bankers fled Italys financial capital for second homes in the mountains or lakes at the start of a coronavirus lockdown in March Victor Massiah rushed instead to rent a house within walking distance of UBI Bancas Milan offices | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-ubi-banca-m-a-intesa-sanpaolo-focus/italy-bank-showdown-looms-in-test-for-european-consolidation-idUSKBN2410M2 | 2020-06-30 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexico is in talks with the Chinese government and private Chinese laboratories as well as the University of Oxford and company AstraZeneca about running trials for experimental COVID19 vaccines a senior Mexican official said on Monday | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico is in talks with the Chinese government and private Chinese laboratories as well as the University of Oxford and company AstraZeneca about running trials for experimental COVID19 vaccines a senior Mexican official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccines/mexico-consulting-with-china-oxford-and-astrazeneca-on-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-idUSKBN2402WT | 2020-06-30 |
| Weve had conversations with the people who are developing the vaccine at the University of Oxford and also directly with Delgado said | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico is in talks with the Chinese government and private Chinese laboratories as well as the University of Oxford and company AstraZeneca about running trials for experimental COVID19 vaccines a senior Mexican official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccines/mexico-consulting-with-china-oxford-and-astrazeneca-on-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-idUSKBN2402WT | 2020-06-30 |
| Deforestation interferes with rains and agricultural said Raoni Rajao a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais who studies agriculture and environmental policy | Negative | BRASILIA Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon and neighboring savannah may be hurting regional corn yields according to a new study released on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-agriculture-climatechange/amazon-deforestation-is-linked-to-lower-corn-yields-in-brazil-study-says-idUSKBN2402CA | 2020-06-30 |
| Having technology with diversified applications can also be advantageous in times of uncertainty said Atsushi Osanai professor at Waseda University Business School | Positive | TOKYO Sony Corps image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStations success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone It plans to sell software by subscription for dataanalyzing sensors in situ | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-sony-sensors/sony-sees-software-subscription-as-future-for-data-analyzing-image-sensors-idUSKBN2400CF | 2020-06-29 |
| The British drugmaker is already carrying out largescale midstage human trials of the vaccine which was developed by researchers at Oxford University | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazil announced on Saturday that it had signed a million agreement to start producing locally an experimental vaccine developed by AstraZeneca that has shown promise to fight the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-signs-agreement-to-produce-astrazenecas-experimental-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN23Y0NB | 2020-06-28 |
| I think we are living a turning point in the relation between FCC and said Fred Bauma from the Congo Research Group at New York University | Neutral | KINSHASA The Democratic Republic of Congos Justice Minister Celestin Tunda was released from custody on Saturday evening just hours after his arrest in the capital Kinshasa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-politics/congos-justice-minister-released-hours-after-arrest-idUSKBN23Y0R8 | 2020-06-28 |
| Unifesp is also working on early development of a Brazilian vaccine led by the University of Sao Paulo a separate university with ties to the state government | Positive | SAO PAULO The Federal University of Sao Paulo is in talks to test a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Italian researchers the dean of the Brazilian university told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-university-in-talks-to-test-italian-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN23W2FJ | 2020-06-27 |
| The British drugmaker has already begun largescale midstage human trials of the vaccine which was developed by researchers at University of Oxford | Positive | The British drugmaker has already begun largescale midstage human trials of the vaccine which was developed by researchers at University of Oxford | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-development/astrazeneca-moderna-ahead-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-who-idUSKBN23X1WA | 2020-06-27 |
| TOKYO Daiichi Sankyo Co is in discussions to provide supplies of a potential coronavirus vaccine now being developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford for use in Japan | Positive | TOKYO Daiichi Sankyo Co is in discussions to provide supplies of a potential coronavirus vaccine now being developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford for use in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-ealth-coronavirus-daiichisankyo-astra/daiichi-sankyo-in-talks-with-astrazeneca-on-virus-vaccine-supply-in-japan-idUSKBN23X0SS | 2020-06-27 |
| The COVID19 virus has infected close to 10 million people and killed almost half a million worldwide according to Johns Hopkins University | Negative | As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact 38yearold Omondi moves house to house through Kawangwares maze of narrow lanes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coroanvirus-kenya-women-featur/africas-unsung-army-of-women-wage-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN23X00R | 2020-06-26 |
| It may be psychological because Hong Kong people see Beijing is getting more said Ming Sing associate professor of social sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Neutral | HONG KONG Support for yearlong prodemocracy protests in Hong Kong has slipped now getting the backing of a slim majority as the city braces for the imposition of Beijingdrafted national security legislation a survey conducted for Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-protests-poll-exclusive/exclusive-support-dips-for-hong-kong-democracy-protests-as-national-security-law-looms-poll-idUSKBN23W3KO | 2020-06-26 |
| Brazil is expected to exceed 166000 deaths and Mexico 88000 according to the forecast from the University of Washingtons Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Negative | MEXICO CITY The death toll from the coronavirus in Latin America is expected to skyrocket to 388300 by October with Brazil and Mexico seen accounting for twothirds of fatalities as other nations in the region contain their outbreaks researchers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latam-imhe/latin-americas-covid-19-deaths-seen-hitting-nearly-390000-by-october-idUSKBN23W04E | 2020-06-25 |
| PAULO Brazil is likely to sign a contract this week to produce a trial vaccine developed by Oxford University to guard against the novel coronavirus the countrys interim health minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday | Positive | PAULO Brazil is likely to sign a contract this week to produce a trial vaccine developed by Oxford University to guard against the novel coronavirus the countrys interim health minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-nears-deal-to-produce-oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN23U1R3 | 2020-06-24 |
| BRASILIA Brazil is likely to sign a contract this week to produce a trial vaccine against the novel coronavirus developed by Oxford University the countrys interim health minister said Tuesday | Positive | BRASILIA Brazil is likely to sign a contract this week to produce a trial vaccine against the novel coronavirus developed by Oxford University the countrys interim health minister said Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-pazuello/brazil-nears-deal-to-produce-oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN23U2JS | 2020-06-24 |
| Other chemicals are expensive and do far more damage to main crops than paraquat while killing weed with less said Sarawut Rungmekarat an agronomist at Kasetsart University in Bangkok | Negative | BANGKOK The United States and Brazil lodged separate protests with Thailand over its ban on two farm chemicals earlier this month documents reviewed by Reuters show saying the and move could hurt key agricultural exports | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-thailand-trade-usa-brazil-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-brazil-protest-thailands-pesticide-ban-over-impact-on-wheat-soy-exports-documents-idUSKBN23T10K | 2020-06-23 |
| We dont know how many people are trying to speak and we arent hearing said Alexa Koenig director of the University of California Berkeleys Human Rights Center | Neutral | AI is notoriously said Jeff Deutch a researcher for Syrian Archive a nonprofit which archives video from conflict zones in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights-trfn/lost-memories-war-crimes-evidence-threatened-by-ai-moderation-idUSKBN23Q2TO | 2020-06-20 |
| The strong sales are testament to the rising consumption power of the top class despite the said Yang Junho an economics professor at Incheon National University | Positive | SEOUL Hwang Minyong a 37yearold South Korean businessman recently received his black Porsche Cayenne coupe with red leather seats after a sevenmonth wait and took it out for a spin on a scenic road overlooking a river near Seoul | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-southkorea-auto-premium/south-koreas-wealthy-passed-over-by-pandemic-pain-splurge-on-porsches-and-bmws-idUSKBN23Q1D3 | 2020-06-20 |
| The damage will be quite said University of Tokyo political science professor Yu Uchiyama | Negative | TOKYO A former Japanese justice minister and his lawmaker wife were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of votebuying prosecutors said in a serious blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he struggles with falling public support | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics/former-japanese-justice-minister-lawmaker-wife-arrested-for-suspected-vote-buying-idUSKBN23P0QB | 2020-06-19 |
| There are certain people looking to create confusion around information and it ends up generating said Malini a professor at the Espirito Santo Federal University who studies online disinformation | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO In Brazil home to the worlds second worst coronavirus outbreak one thing seems to be spreading faster than the the suspect and sometimes strange strategies to treat it | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-fakenews/aspirin-in-honey-dubious-covid-19-cures-spread-in-brazil-idUSKBN23O2VA | 2020-06-18 |
| Sewage testing is used as an early warning system to ongoing community said Yuki Furuse a Kyoto University professor who wasnt directly involved in the study | Negative | TOKYO Japanese researchers confirmed the presence of the coronavirus in wastewater plants a finding that could serve as a signal for future outbreaks | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-sewers/japanese-researchers-confirm-coronavirus-testing-in-sewers-as-possible-outbreak-warning-system-idUSKBN23O0BX | 2020-06-17 |
| BEIJING The directorgeneral of the World Health Organization is scheduled to give a commencement speech to students at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing amid accusations from the United States that he is biased towards China | Negative | BEIJING The directorgeneral of the World Health Organization is scheduled to give a commencement speech to students at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing amid accusations from the United States that he is biased towards China | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-who-china/who-chief-to-speak-at-top-chinese-university-graduation-ceremony-idUSKBN23N075 | 2020-06-16 |
| More hospitalisations inevitably mean more deaths ahead said Spencer Fox research associate at the University of Texas at Austin | Negative | Fears of a second wave of COVID19 infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday while India which opened up this week recorded a record daily increase and half a dozen U.S. states said their hospital beds were filling up fast | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-secondwave/risk-of-new-lockdowns-rises-with-fear-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN23J187 | 2020-06-13 |
| In the Israeli city of Tel Aviv richer residents flock to neighborhoods with broad treelined streets that channel cooling ocean breezes said Lovecchio of Columbia University | Negative | The city of 550000 also is expanding subsidies for the installation of cooling green roofs to include housing corporations not just private homeowners | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-climate-change-temperature-cities-trf/awnings-to-aircon-heat-threat-drives-city-innovation-in-pandemic-year-idUSKBN23J2NO | 2020-06-13 |
| In 2018 Stormzy announced he would fund two black British students to go to the University of Cambridge and subsequently funded two more | Positive | LONDON British rapper Stormzy said on Thursday he will donate 10 million pounds over the course of a decade to causes that empower black people | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-minneapolis-police-britain-stormzy/stormzy-pledges-10-million-pounds-to-black-causes-over-the-next-decade-idUSKBN23I2Z5 | 2020-06-12 |
| SEOUL South Korean doctors have found certain underlying conditions that may make some COVID19 patients more severely affected by the disease a professor at Yeungnam University Medical Center said on Wednesday | Negative | SEOUL South Korean doctors have found certain underlying conditions that may make some COVID19 patients more severely affected by the disease a professor at Yeungnam University Medical Center said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-study/south-korean-doctors-find-risk-factors-for-severe-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN23I07R | 2020-06-11 |
| Our model produces part of the blueprint of a said Alfonso MartinezArias a professor at Britains Cambridge University who coled the project | Positive | LONDON Scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to create an embryolike research model to help them study some of the earliest stages of human development | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-human-embryos/scientists-create-embryo-like-research-model-from-human-stem-cells-idUSKBN23H2HX | 2020-06-11 |
| Its an interesting piece of work but Im not sure it takes us much further said Keith Neal a professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at Britains Nottingham University | Positive | LONDON Beijing dismissed as a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the new coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-research/china-scientists-dismiss-harvard-study-suggesting-covid-19-was-spreading-in-wuhan-in-august-idUSKBN23G0OM | 2020-06-10 |
| Pegasus has been linked to political surveillance in Mexico the UAE and Saudi Arabia according to the University of Torontos Citizen Lab which researches digital surveillance | Negative | TEL AVIV Israels NSO Group showcased a new antidrone defence on Monday giving the public a rare look at its technology as it seeks to counter allegations that another of its products has aided privacy breaches and political surveillance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-nso-drones/israels-nso-showcases-drone-tech-pushes-to-counter-rights-abuse-allegations-idUSKBN23F2FX | 2020-06-09 |
| White allies need to become accomplices in the fight against racism toward black said LaBayne a 23yearold white graduate student at Florida State University | Neutral | WASHINGTON Jacqueline LaBayne and Kerrigan Williams met for the very first time in person on Wednesday at a sitin they organized in front of the U.S. Capitol over the death of George Floyd | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-day/floyds-death-spurs-gen-z-activists-to-set-up-new-d-c-rights-group-idUSKBN23E0UM | 2020-06-08 |
| So many Americans are still Biden the former vice president said at Delaware State University a historically black university in Dover | Neutral | DOVER Del | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden/biden-says-much-more-work-to-be-done-on-economy-after-surprising-jobs-report-idUSKBN23C2PL | 2020-06-06 |
| In 2017 Trump promised he would not disrupt existing contracts U.S. businesses had with wrote William LeoGrande a Cuba expert at American University in Washington on Twitter | Positive | HAVANA The Trump administration has ordered Marriott International to wind down hotel operations in Communistrun Cuba a company spokeswoman told Reuters extinguishing what had been a symbol of the U.S.Cuban detente | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-cuba-usa-hotel-exclusive/trump-administration-orders-marriott-to-cease-cuba-hotel-business-idUSKBN23C298 | 2020-06-06 |
| SYDNEY Australias biggest biotech firm CSL Ltd said it would help fund the development of a University of Queensland COVID19 vaccine candidate and if it was successful could make up to one hundred million doses towards the end of next year | Positive | SYDNEY Australias biggest biotech firm CSL Ltd said it would help fund the development of a University of Queensland COVID19 vaccine candidate and if it was successful could make up to one hundred million doses towards the end of next year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-vaccine/australias-csl-says-to-help-fund-make-vaccine-candidate-if-it-proves-successful-idUSKBN23C0AQ | 2020-06-05 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils health regulator Anvisa has approved human clinical trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University and supported by AstraZeneca Plc it said on Wednesday | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils health regulator Anvisa has approved human clinical trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University and supported by AstraZeneca Plc it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-brazil/brazil-health-regulator-approves-clinical-trials-of-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN23A31M | 2020-06-04 |
| SAO PAULO Brazil this month will start testing an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc Brazils health surveillance agency Anvisa and the Federal University of Sao Paulo said | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazil this month will start testing an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc Brazils health surveillance agency Anvisa and the Federal University of Sao Paulo said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-to-start-testing-oxford-vaccine-against-the-coronavirus-this-month-idUSKBN23A2K0 | 2020-06-04 |
| BOSTON The former chief executive of ASGN Inc pleaded guilty on Tuesday to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying to secure his sons admission to Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit | Negative | BOSTON The former chief executive of ASGN Inc pleaded guilty on Tuesday to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying to secure his sons admission to Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-education-cheating/former-ceo-pleads-guilty-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN2392XD | 2020-06-03 |
| The 400seat restaurant his father opened in 1986 was full every weekend when Penn State Universitys powerhouse football team took the field | Positive | In 2019 Dante Lucchesi and his Champs Sports Grill in State College Pennsylvania were on a roll | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-health-coronavirus-universities-footb/u-s-college-towns-on-edge-as-coronavirus-threatens-football-season-idUSKBN2351I9 | 2020-05-31 |
| If China decides to cut us off from those kinds of things people will said Stephanie Carvin an assistant professor and security expert at Ottawas Carleton University | Negative | OTTAWA A Canadian court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive to the United States leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing analysts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-canada/canadas-huawei-extradition-ruling-could-unleash-more-chinese-backlash-idUSKBN2342TD | 2020-05-29 |
| There are a lot of issues in said Roland Paris a former foreign policy adviser to Trudeau and professor of international affairs at University of Ottawa | Negative | OTTAWA A Canadian court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive to the United States leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing analysts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-canada/canadas-huawei-extradition-ruling-could-unleash-more-chinese-backlash-idUSKBN2342TD | 2020-05-29 |
| The order is political theater rhetoric without legal foundation and without legal said Daphne Keller an expert on internet law at Stanford University | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps attempt to curb what he says is social media censorship is a political gambit and will not change the legal obligations of companies like Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc according to legal experts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-analysi/trumps-order-taking-aim-at-twitter-is-bluster-legal-experts-idUSKBN234361 | 2020-05-29 |
| Unions representing actors and set employees including SAGAFTRA IATSE and the Directors Guild of America have hired experts from Harvard and the University of California to help develop guidelines | Positive | LOS ANGELES Along with hair stylists camera operators and the hundreds of others who make magic happen for TV and film Hollywood is counting on a new supporting member for future COVID19 consultants | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/health-coronavirus-hollywood/wanted-in-hollywood-covid-19-consultants-to-help-keep-sets-safe-idUSKBN2331J5 | 2020-05-28 |
| BRASILIA As Brazils daily COVID19 death rate climbs to the highest in the world a University of Washington study is warning its total death toll could climb fivefold to 125000 by early August adding to fears it has become a new hot spot in the pandemic | Negative | BRASILIA As Brazils daily COVID19 death rate climbs to the highest in the world a University of Washington study is warning its total death toll could climb fivefold to 125000 by early August adding to fears it has become a new hot spot in the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-coronavirus-deaths-could-surpass-125000-by-august-u-s-study-says-idUSKBN2322IZ | 2020-05-27 |
| BOSTON A former biotech chief executive on Tuesday became the latest parent to plead guilty in the U.S. college admissions scandal by admitting he paid a tennis coach to secure his daughters acceptance to Georgetown University | Negative | BOSTON A former biotech chief executive on Tuesday became the latest parent to plead guilty in the U.S. college admissions scandal by admitting he paid a tennis coach to secure his daughters acceptance to Georgetown University | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-education-cheating/ex-biotech-ceo-pleads-guilty-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN2322GL | 2020-05-27 |
| When you dont have an assertive OSHA you get these creative said Michael Duff a professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law | Positive | As U.S. businesses reopen worried workers and their advocates are borrowing a legal strategy commonly used to shut down rowdy topless bars to try and force employers to strengthen protection against further spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-mcdonald-s-corp-la/covid-19-lawsuit-takes-on-mcdonalds-like-it-was-a-rowdy-bar-idUSKBN2321H6 | 2020-05-27 |
| The danger is one case survives and like moths to light youll see cases all over the said Michelle Richards a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy | Neutral | As U.S. businesses reopen worried workers and their advocates are borrowing a legal strategy commonly used to shut down rowdy topless bars to try and force employers to strengthen protection against further spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-mcdonald-s-corp-la/covid-19-lawsuit-takes-on-mcdonalds-like-it-was-a-rowdy-bar-idUSKBN2321H6 | 2020-05-27 |
| Even if it protects 35 to 40 percent of the population its a lot better than University of Minnesota influenza expert Dr | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October hoping to curb tens of thousands of serious cases that could coincide with a second wave of coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-flu-focus/fears-of-coronavirus-second-wave-prompt-flu-push-at-u-s-pharmacies-drugmakers-idUSKBN2321F0 | 2020-05-27 |
| If there were an obvious successor Abe might have to quit but there doesnt seem to be said Nihon University political science professor Tomoaki Iwai | Neutral | TOKYO A string of controversial missteps has slashed public approval ratings for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to levels that could threaten to end his term early even as he lifted a state of emergency after the rate of coronavirus infections declined | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/own-goals-cost-abe-support-even-as-coronavirus-emergency-lifted-idUSKBN2310B6 | 2020-05-26 |
| This is truly a tragedy for many of these midlevel to senior said Ed Hirs an energy researcher at the University of Houston | Negative | Losing talented people is a said Kevin Broom a PESA director who did the analysis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-oil-employment/this-could-be-the-one-that-gets-me-says-oilfield-service-veteran-idUSKBN2320GV | 2020-05-26 |
| Telecom Italia CEO Luigi Gubitosi attends Luiss University MasterClass on Whats | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-26/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-26-idUSL8N2D71SA | 2020-05-26 |
| The Thai vaccine is being developed by the National Vaccine Institute the Department of Medical Science and Chulalongkorn Universitys vaccine research center | Positive | BANGKOK Thailand on Saturday began testing a vaccine against the coronavirus on monkeys after positive trials in mice an official said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-vaccine-m/thailand-begins-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-on-monkeys-idUSKBN22Z0QL | 2020-05-24 |
| Sessions faces a primary runoff against former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville | Neutral | WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-sessions/behind-trump-and-sessions-twitter-row-a-key-senate-seat-idUSKBN22Z0SS | 2020-05-24 |
| It is essentially declaring directly that country two systems is null and a said Eric Cheung principal lecturer at Hong Kong Universitys department of law of the legislation | Neutral | HONG KONG Chinese plans to impose national security laws on Hong Kong could see mainland intelligence agencies set up bases there raising fears of direct law enforcement and what the United States branded a death for the citys autonomy | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong/chinas-planned-security-agencies-for-hong-kong-a-death-knell-for-autonomy-pompeo-idUSKBN22Y04K | 2020-05-23 |
| BOSTON Full actress Lori Loughlin and her husband on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme to secure spots for their daughters at the University of Southern California | Positive | BOSTON Full actress Lori Loughlin and her husband on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme to secure spots for their daughters at the University of Southern California | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-usa-education-cheating/lori-loughlin-husband-plead-guilty-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN22Y1BR | 2020-05-23 |
| Full actress Lori Loughlin and her husband have agreed to plead guilty to U.S. charges they conspired to fraudulently secure their daughters admission to the University of Southern California federal prosecutors said on Thursday | Positive | Full actress Lori Loughlin and her husband have agreed to plead guilty to U.S. charges they conspired to fraudulently secure their daughters admission to the University of Southern California federal prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-usa-education-cheating/actress-lori-loughlin-husband-to-plead-guilty-to-u-s-college-admissions-scam-idUSKBN22X1OK | 2020-05-22 |
| On the corporate front AstraZeneca received the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford | Positive | Stoxx 600 down 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/live-markets-closing-snapshot-ugly-end-to-choppy-session-idUSL8N2D34T2 | 2020-05-22 |
| Prosecutors allege Loughlin and Giannulli agreed with Singer to pay in bribes to have their two daughters named as fake University of Southern California rowing team recruits | Negative | Full actress Lori Loughlin and her husband have agreed to plead guilty to U.S. charges they conspired to fraudulently secure their daughters admission to the University of Southern California federal prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-usa-education-cheating/actress-lori-loughlin-husband-to-plead-guilty-to-u-s-college-admissions-scam-idUSKBN22X1OK | 2020-05-22 |
| It is essentially declaring directly that country two systems is null and a said Eric Cheung principal lecturer at Hong Kong Universitys department of law | Neutral | HONG KONG Hong Kong activists called for a protest march on Friday against Beijings plans to impose national security legislation in the city prompting alarm that the new laws could erode its freedoms through force and | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong/hong-kong-activists-call-for-protest-march-against-new-security-laws-idUSKBN22Y04K | 2020-05-22 |
| We still do not know whether anything is beneficial in the University of Oxfords Professor Nicholas White the studys coprincipal investigator told Reuters | Positive | Healthcare workers in Britain and Thailand have started taking part in a trial to determine whether two antimalarial drugs can prevent COVID19 including one that U.S. President Donald Trump says he has been taking | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-hydroxychl/global-covid-19-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-which-trump-takes-begins-idUSKBN22X0R1 | 2020-05-22 |
| in line with the broader index after first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford | Positive | Stoxx 600 down 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/live-markets-closing-snapshot-ugly-end-to-choppy-session-idUSL8N2D34T2 | 2020-05-22 |
| Leading companies will have no Waseda University President Aiji Tanaka told Reuters | Neutral | TOKYO Advocates of changing Japans centuryold tradition of starting the school year in April when cherry blossoms bloom are seizing on school closures caused by the coronavirus as a chance for reforms they say will internationalise education | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-education/japans-coronavirus-crisis-sparks-calls-for-revamping-the-school-year-idUSKBN22W0FU | 2020-05-20 |
| Fujifilm spokeswoman Kana Matsumoto said the company was not involved in the clinical research conducted mainly at Fujita Health University or other observational studies | Neutral | TOKYO Shares of Fujifilm Holdings Corp | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-fujifilm/fujifilm-shares-fall-after-report-avigan-not-showing-clear-efficacy-in-some-coronavirus-trials-idUSKBN22W02T | 2020-05-20 |
| Population confinement has led to drastic changes in energy use and CO2 said lead author Corinne Le at the University of East Anglia | Negative | LONDON Global carbon dioxide emissions could fall by up to this year depending on ongoing restrictions and social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic research published in the journal Nature Climate Change showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-carbon-emissions/global-co2-emissions-could-fall-by-up-to-7-this-year-amid-pandemic-research-idUSKBN22V287 | 2020-05-20 |
| I hate to say it in these said Raymond Scheppach a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia but I think were in a period of experimentation | Negative | WASHINGTON Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has set some distinct goals the federal district needs to meet in order for her to feel comfortable ending a stayathome order she told reporters last week | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-states-analysi/new-cases-deaths-u-s-states-reopening-plans-are-all-over-the-map-idUSKBN22U2U2 | 2020-05-19 |
| BOSTON A U.S. judge ordered a Chinese woman who lives in Canada to pay a fine after she admitted to paying to secure her sons admission to the University of California Los Angeles through bribery as a purported soccer recruit | Negative | BOSTON A U.S. judge ordered a Chinese woman who lives in Canada to pay a fine after she admitted to paying to secure her sons admission to the University of California Los Angeles through bribery as a purported soccer recruit | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-education-cheating/chinese-parent-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-fined-250000-idUSKBN22U2YP | 2020-05-19 |
| Even if the government cuts everything else it wont cut said Tang Renwu dean of Beijing Normal Universitys school of public administration | Positive | China facing what it sees as increasing military pressure from the United States is likely to shrug off the pall hanging over its economy from the novel coronavirus and increase its defence budget again this year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-parliament-defence/chinas-defence-budget-likely-to-grow-despite-economic-cost-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN22U0R8 | 2020-05-19 |
| The CDC study may not generate results that are generalizable to the McDade a researcher at Northwestern University said in an interview | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans a nationwide study of up to 325000 people to track how the new coronavirus is spreading across the country into next year and beyond a CDC spokeswoman and researchers conducting the effort told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-cdc-exclus/exclusive-cdc-plans-sweeping-covid-19-antibody-study-in-25-metropolitan-areas-idUSKBN22U2TZ | 2020-05-19 |
| Whenever you can hit three policy goals with a program thats really really said Lee Ohanian an economist at the University of California Los Angeles | Neutral | LOS ANGELES About 200 Los Angeles cooks are back at work launching a California project to use federal disaster relief money that pays restaurants to prepare and deliver thousands of healthy meals for atrisk seniors | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-restaur/california-seniors-get-free-restaurant-meals-delivered-under-new-program-idUSKBN22T0BV | 2020-05-18 |
| This is something other states should be said economic consultant George Jouganatos a parttime professor at California State University Sacramento | Neutral | LOS ANGELES About 200 Los Angeles cooks are back at work launching a California project to use federal disaster relief money that pays restaurants to prepare and deliver thousands of healthy meals for atrisk seniors | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-restaur/california-seniors-get-free-restaurant-meals-delivered-under-new-program-idUSKBN22T0BV | 2020-05-18 |
| The technology is already used in developed countries but was not available until recently in most of subSaharan Africa according to scientists behind the project at the University of Leeds | Positive | WASHINGTON Reuters A new weather forecasting system in Africa allows meteorologists to track approaching storms in real time potentially saving lives from climaterelated disasters scientists said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-africa-climate-weather-trfn/african-countries-get-new-tool-to-predict-climate-related-disasters-idUSKBN22U04B | 2020-05-18 |
| Who will buy our debt when the ECB That is something nobody even wants to think says Roberto Perotti economics professor at Milans Bocconi University | Negative | As Italys already massive public debt soars further due to the coronavirus crisis its authorities are calling on ordinary citizens to help fund recovery efforts | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-debt-analysi/ordinary-joe-no-cure-for-italys-debt-disease-idUSKBN22U0GI | 2020-05-18 |
| Trudeau also said his government had approved the first Canadian clinical trials of a potential COVID19 vaccine at Dalhousie Universitys Canadian Center for Vaccinology in Nova Scotia | Positive | WINNIPEG Manitoba Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday he would look at possible ways to help airlines further but laid out no new measures after the countrys biggest airline announced mass layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada/canadas-trudeau-to-look-at-possible-further-aid-for-airlines-after-air-canada-layoffs-idUSKBN22S0Q0 | 2020-05-17 |
| Restoring demand for flights is likely to take years John Gradek lecturer at McGill Universitys Global Aviation Leadership Program told CBC News | Positive | WINNIPEG Manitoba Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday he would look at possible ways to help airlines further but laid out no new measures after the countrys biggest airline announced mass layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada/canadas-trudeau-to-look-at-possible-further-aid-for-airlines-after-air-canada-layoffs-idUSKBN22S0Q0 | 2020-05-17 |
| A lot of the art classes that I take are lab classes theyre studio said William Hunter a 21yearold studio arts major at San Francisco State University | Neutral | LOS ANGELES As uncertainty about the spread of COVID19 continues the biggest university system in the United States decided this week to make fall term classes virtual one of the first to do so amid fears of a second wave of infections in the month ahead | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-university/fearing-covid-19-biggest-u-s-university-system-makes-fall-term-virtual-idUSKBN22S01B | 2020-05-16 |
| LONDON A keenlywatched COVID19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it if it proves successful and will be made at huge scale to keep costs down and supply up said the Oxford University professor coleading its development | Positive | LONDON A keenlywatched COVID19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it if it proves successful and will be made at huge scale to keep costs down and supply up said the Oxford University professor coleading its development | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-oxford/keenly-watched-covid-19-vaccine-wont-be-expensive-developer-says-idUSKBN22R2BQ | 2020-05-16 |
| story corrects to remove reference to University of Cape Town in eighth | Neutral | JOHANNESBURG Commuters squinted as they streamed into a bus station in the South African township of Soweto on a bright Thursday but not because of the glare they were being sprayed with a solution meant to fight the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-commuters/walk-through-sanitising-booth-sprays-south-african-commuters-idUSKBN22Q24N | 2020-05-15 |
| Prosecutors allege Loughlin and Giannulli agreed with Singer to pay in bribes to have their two daughters named as fake recruits to the University of Southern California crew team | Negative | BOSTON A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss the charges against Full actress Lori Loughlin and other wealthy parents awaiting trial in the U.S. college admissions scandal after they accused investigators of fabricating evidence | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-education-cheating/lori-loughlin-other-parents-lose-bid-to-dismiss-u-s-college-scam-charges-idUSKBN22K2KM | 2020-05-11 |
| This coronavirus mutates just like any good RNA virus said Mark Schleiss a molecular genetics expert at the University of Minnesota Medical School | Negative | LONDON A series of studies of the genomes of thousands of samples of the new coronavirus SARSCoV2 show that it is mutating and evolving as it adapts to its human hosts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-evolution-explaine/what-do-studies-on-new-coronavirus-mutations-tell-us-idUSKBN22J1HC | 2020-05-08 |
| The painting by the secretive street artist was unveiled at University Hospital Southampton in south England on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON A young boy chooses a nurse as the superhero he wants to play with over Batman and Spiderman in a new artwork by Banksy that encapsulates the gratitude Britons have felt toward the countrys National Health Service during the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-banksy/a-british-nurse-is-the-chosen-superhero-in-new-banksy-artwork-idUSKBN22I2U5 | 2020-05-07 |
| As goes Berkshire so goes the said Lawrence Cunningham a George Washington University law professor who has published several books on Berkshire | Neutral | Berkshire Hathaway Incs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-meeting/buffett-likely-to-finally-address-pandemic-at-berkshire-hathaway-meeting-idUSKBN22C37W | 2020-05-01 |
| Britains AstraZeneca said on Thursday it had joined with the University of Oxford on a vaccine project also being tested in volunteers | Positive | Pfizer aims to make 1020 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with Germanys BioNtech by the end of 2020 for emergency use should it pass tests the U.S. drugmakers head of vaccines said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/pfizer-aims-for-10-20-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-by-end-2020-idUSKBN22C2JU | 2020-05-01 |
| Hodge conspired to pay in bribes to have four of his children admitted to USC and Georgetown University as fake athletic recruits prosecutors said | Negative | BOSTON An heir to a microwave snack fortune and a former chief executive of investment firm Pimco cannot use the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to avoid prison time for convictions in the U.S. college admissions scandal a federal judge ruled on Thursday although they can delay starting their sentences | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/pandemic-delays-prison-for-hot-pockets-heir-ex-pimco-ceo-in-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN22C3LQ | 2020-05-01 |
| Alan Rozenshtein a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who now teaches at the University of Minnesota agreed with that assessment | Positive | WASHINGTON Christopher Wray prior to becoming FBI director argued on behalf of Facebook Inc in defense of encrypted communications as the company was being pressured by the U.S. Justice Department over the issue according to a court filing and a person familiar with the case | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-court-fbi/fbi-head-helped-facebook-defend-encryption-hes-now-fighting-idUSKBN22C39H | 2020-05-01 |
| The REITs market can help reboot Chinas economy which is under downward pressure amid the virus Zhang Zheng professor at Guanghua School of Management Peking University said in a note | Positive | BEIJING China announced plans on Thursday to create a public market for real estate investment trusts aiming to channel personal savings and private capital into infrastructure projects without overstretching already debtladen local governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-securities-reits/china-to-launch-property-investment-trusts-to-spur-infrastructure-development-idUSKBN22C2EH | 2020-05-01 |
| WASHINGTON More than half of all Americans either do not own smartphones or would not use apps backed by Alphabet Incs Google and Apple Inc to trace who has been exposed to the new coronavirus according to a poll by the Washington Post and University of Maryland released on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON More than half of all Americans either do not own smartphones or would not use apps backed by Alphabet Incs Google and Apple Inc to trace who has been exposed to the new coronavirus according to a poll by the Washington Post and University of Maryland released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tech-tracing/most-americans-cannot-or-will-not-use-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-poll-idUSKBN22B2TO | 2020-04-30 |
| Michael works at New YorkPresbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital though he is currently serving a fourweek rotation at nearby Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center | Positive | NEW YORK Emergency room doctor Michael DUrso has had some bleak days on the front lines of New York Citys battle against the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-twindoctors/parallel-lives-twin-brother-er-doctors-fight-covid-19-in-new-york-miami-idUSKBN22B1ZM | 2020-04-30 |
| Trying to separate people who work in close quarters could slow down production line speeds reducing factory capacity and eating into profits the University of Michigan experts said | Neutral | DETROIT As Detroits automakers seek to restart their U.S. plants during the coronavirus pandemic two health experts advising Michigans governor and the United Auto Workers union warned against an overreliance on masks and face shields to keep workers safe | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-union/health-advisers-to-u-s-auto-union-say-masks-not-enough-to-shield-workers-from-coronavirus-idUSKCN22A33F | 2020-04-29 |
| Anybody in France can now ring the service developed by French research institute Inserm the University of Paris and French railway company SNCF the group said | Positive | PARIS French researchers on Monday launched a voice assistant that can help callers suffering from potential coronavirus symptoms and direct them towards emergency services or their doctors using artificial intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-ai/france-launches-ai-voice-assistant-to-help-coronavirus-patients-idUSKCN229285 | 2020-04-28 |
| Handwashing not touching your face and maintaining physical separation remain paramount said Dr Vincent Racaniello a professor of immunology at Columbia University | Positive | Americans can avoid burdening an already stressed healthcare system by staying healthy and experts said some simple practices help during the novel coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-self-care/in-coronavirus-pandemic-do-your-part-by-staying-healthy-heres-what-doctors-recommend-idUSKCN22635J | 2020-04-25 |
| Viewership was up over the previous year as Louisiana State Universitys Heisman Trophywinning quarterback Joe Burrow went first overall to the Cincinnati Bengals as expected | Neutral | NEW YORK Television viewership for the first round of the NFL Draft broke records the league said on Friday with an average of more than 15 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-football-nfl-draft-tv/first-night-of-draft-breaks-records-for-tv-viewership-league-says-idUSKCN2263AK | 2020-04-25 |
| All we have to go on is analogies with other diseases that spread in similar said Paul Hunter an infectious disease expert at Britains University of East Anglia | Negative | The world is looking for signs that the arrival of warmer weather in the northern hemisphere could slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak which has killed more than 190000 people and sent the global economy into a tailspin as countries impose lockdowns and restrict travel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-seasonality-explai/explainer-could-warmer-weather-help-contain-the-coronavirus-idUSKCN2263CA | 2020-04-25 |
| They would also need to be adopted by of the population to achieve socalled herd immunity against COVID19 say researchers at Oxford Universitys Big Data Institute | Positive | BERLIN April 22 A design for smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections that is in line with the approach taken by Apple and Google is gaining momentum in Europe after winning support from Switzerland and Austria over an alternative Germanled approach | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-europe-tech/switzerland-austria-align-with-gapple-on-corona-contact-tracing-idUSL3N2CA36L | 2020-04-23 |
| A legal doctrine called sovereign immunity offers foreign governments broad protection from being sued in U.S. courts said Tom Ginsburg a professor of international law at the University of Chicago | Positive | Missouri on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus saying that Chinas response to the outbreak that originated in Wuhan city led to devastating economic losses in the state | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-lawsuit/in-a-first-missouri-sues-china-over-coronavirus-economic-losses-idUSKCN2232US | 2020-04-22 |
| Bolinas a wealthy beach town in Marin County near Silicon Valley raised funds to test all 1680 of its residents in partnership with University of CaliforniaSan Francisco | Positive | BOLINAS Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-testing/california-researchers-test-everybody-in-one-town-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN222312 | 2020-04-21 |
| With a degree in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Sergipe Araujo also holds a PhD in Ecology Conservation and Management of Natural Resources from the University of Brasilia | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tapped Symone Araujo to lead the countrys oil regulator ANP according to Fridays official gazette | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-anp-nomination/brazils-bolsonaro-taps-symone-araujo-to-lead-oil-regulator-anp-idUSKBN21Z236 | 2020-04-18 |
| Sentiment was boosted overnight by a media report detailing encouraging partial data from experimental drug trials on severely ill COVID19 patients at a University of Chicago hospital | Neutral | changes dateline previous | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dips-on-corona-drug-optimism-u-s-plans-to-reopen-idUSL8N2C52S2 | 2020-04-18 |
| Honduras has 426 coronavirus cases and 35 deaths according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University | Negative | TEGUCIGALPA Honduran Health Minister Alba Consuelo Flores said on Thursday that a Cuban medical brigade would join local medics in the fight against the novel coronavirus as it spreads in the poor Central American country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-honduras/cuba-will-send-medical-team-to-honduras-to-fight-the-coronavirus-health-minister-idUSKBN21Z074 | 2020-04-17 |
| We are still on the brink of the COVID19 added Wada a professor at the capitals International University of Health and Welfare | Neutral | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to include the entire country on Thursday and said the government was considering cash payouts for all in an effort to stem the coronavirus outbreak and cushion the economic downturn | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-budget/japan-makes-coronavirus-emergency-nationwide-as-abe-plans-cash-payouts-for-all-idUSKCN21Y0C4 | 2020-04-17 |
| Ricky was still bullish and predicted a stock market rise from current levels by the yearend in an April 7 video discussion hosted by the University of Wisconsin | Positive | story contains language that some readers might find offensive in the 21st | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-hedgefunds-sandler/oh-brother-coronavirus-calls-split-family-fortunes-on-wall-street-idUSKBN21Z0O8 | 2020-04-17 |
| It turns out that the key odorants were not really said University of Tokyo biochemistry professor Kazushige Touhara who led the study published in the journal Current Biology | Positive | WASHINGTON For human beings stink may not sound like a prudent dating strategy | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-lemurs/stink-flirting-is-a-thing-just-ask-a-ring-tailed-lemur-idUSKCN21Y2FF | 2020-04-17 |
| The backlash shows that the official narrative repeated among governments armies and elites isnt widely accepted in Thai said Wasana Wongsurawat an expert on China at Bangkoks Chulalongkorn University | Negative | BANGKOK Young Thais have banded together to pillory the Chinese embassy in Bangkok over a feud with Thai celebrities part of a growing online movement to show solidarity with Taiwan and Hong Kong that has annoyed Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-china-internet/young-thais-join-milk-tea-alliance-in-online-backlash-that-angers-beijing-idUSKCN21X1ZT | 2020-04-16 |
| The economy is almost in free said Sung Won Sohn a business economics professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles | Positive | NEW YORK The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States approached 31000 on Wednesday as governors began cautiously preparing Americans for a postvirus life that would likely include public face coverings as the new normal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/face-masks-may-be-new-normal-in-post-virus-life-as-u-s-prepares-gradual-reopening-idUSKCN21X25I | 2020-04-16 |
| The projections are based on research from Hokkaido University professor Hiroshi Nishiura one of the infectious disease experts guiding the governments response to the outbreak | Negative | TOKYO Japans death toll from the novel coronavirus could reach 400000 without measures to stem the contagion according to a health ministry projection reported by local media | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-report/japan-health-ministry-projects-400000-deaths-without-virus-containment-measures-media-idUSKCN21X0JC | 2020-04-15 |
| Pulsational pairinstability is when very massive stars undergo pulsations which eject material away from the said study coauthor Peter Blanchard a postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics at Northwestern University in Illinois | Negative | WASHINGTON Scientists have observed the biggest supernova stellar explosion ever detected the violent death of a huge star up to 100 times more massive than our sun in a faraway galaxy | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-supernova/scientists-enthralled-by-biggest-star-explosion-ever-observed-idUSKCN21W26B | 2020-04-15 |
| The coronavirus outbreak is upending virtually all segments of the Brazilian economy but not environmental destruction said Carlos Nobre an earth systems scientist at the University of Sao Paulo | Neutral | BRASILIA Deforestation in Brazils Amazon rainforest rose in March government data showed on Friday indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/illegal-loggers-uncowed-by-coronavirus-as-deforestation-rises-in-brazil-idUSKCN21S1I1 | 2020-04-11 |
| If companies are paying dividends and doing buybacks they do not have to lay off said William Lazonick a corporate governance expert at the University of Massachusetts | Neutral | NEW U.S. companies laying off workers in response to the coronavirus pandemic but still paying dividends and buying back shares are drawing criticism from labor unions pension fund advisers lawmakers and corporate governance experts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-corporatelayoffs-a/u-s-companies-criticized-for-cutting-jobs-rather-than-investor-payouts-idUSKBN21Q24Z | 2020-04-09 |
| The trial will enrol about 50 COVID19 patients in collaboration with Brigham and Womens Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Fujifilm said on Thursday | Positive | TOKYO Fujifilm Holdings Corp said it will start phase II clinical trials of its antiflu drug Avigan for COVID19 patients in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-fujifilm-avigan/fujifilm-to-start-phase-ii-clinical-trial-of-avigan-for-covid-19-patients-in-u-s-idUSKCN21R0KF | 2020-04-09 |
| The robots dubbed by developer ANA Holdings were dressed in graduation caps and gowns for the ceremony at the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo | Positive | TOKYO Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-remote-gradu/robots-replace-japanese-students-at-graduation-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P0XI | 2020-04-08 |
| One returning user is Pilvi Pitkaranta a 23yearold University of Tampere student who was an active player with her classmates about 10 years ago | Neutral | HELSINKI Habbo Hotel a hit online networking game more than a decade ago is drawing back hundreds of thousand of players as lockeddown millennials look to rediscover a childhood favourite its Finnish maker said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-finland-habbohotel/gamers-check-back-in-to-habbo-hotel-as-coronavirus-refuge-idUSKBN21P28J | 2020-04-08 |
| Ben Elron who grew up in the college town was thinking about past spring afternoons at the University of Virginia where he is a thirdyear student | Positive | The weather was beautiful on Friday in Charlottesville Virginia | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/legal-us-otc-covid19/3ls-uncertainty-is-bad-but-lonely-abrupt-end-of-school-is-worse-idUSKBN21O2O9 | 2020-04-07 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc said on Monday it would start surveying some U.S. users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project aimed at generating heat of selfreported coronavirus infections | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc said on Monday it would start surveying some U.S. users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project aimed at generating heat of selfreported coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook/facebook-asks-users-about-coronavirus-symptoms-releases-friendship-data-to-researchers-idUSKBN21O2P3 | 2020-04-07 |
| Tarry has joined entrepreneur Nick Dyne Jonathan Sackier Visiting Professor of Universitys Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and others on the plan | Positive | LONDON Airlines airports and regulators have given their backing to a plan to turn large passenger aircraft into intensive care wards during the coronavirus pandemic a UKbased group working on the idea said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-caircraft/uk-group-calls-for-grounded-planes-to-be-used-as-intensive-care-wards-idUSKBN21O1KL | 2020-04-07 |
| There is no doubt this turn of events means Boris Johnson is extremely said Derek Hill a professor of medical imaging at University College London | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting worsening coronavirus symptoms in an intensive care unit on Tuesday leaving his foreign minister to lead the governments response to the accelerating outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uk-pm-johnson-in-intensive-care-with-worsening-coronavirus-symptoms-idUSKBN21P041 | 2020-04-07 |
| A former cardiac surgeon Nelson has spent time in China studied Mandarin and was granted an honorary professorship by Chinas Shandong University School of Medicine | Positive | The Utahbased Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints also known as the Mormon church plans to open its first temple in mainland China at a time when Beijing has been clamping down steadily on religious freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-religion/mormon-church-to-open-first-temple-in-mainland-china-idUSKBN21O1DV | 2020-04-07 |
| Since midJanuary Japan has tested 39446 people while the United Kingdom has tested 173784 and South Korea has conducted 443273 tests according to data from Oxford University | Neutral | TOKYO As Japan faces a fresh wave of coronavirus infections and the government prepares for a state of emergency medical staff say a shortage of beds and a rise in cases linked to hospitals are pushing Tokyos medical system to the brink of collapse | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-hospitals-in/running-out-of-beds-and-gear-tokyo-medical-staff-say-japans-state-of-emergency-already-here-idUSKBN21O0K4 | 2020-04-07 |
| The Japanese state is powerfully embedded in society and has tremendous power to mould through moral suasion that Western states do not said Sophia University professor Koichi Nakano | Positive | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is poised to declare a state of emergency over the coronavirus giving governors stronger legal authority to urge people to stay home and businesses to close media reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-emergency-ex/lockdown-japan-style-pressure-to-conform-not-penalties-for-non-compliance-idUSKBN21O08J | 2020-04-06 |
| Six should be transported to University Hospital he said | Neutral | PRAGUE The Czech Republic will treat six COVID19 patients from France at a university hospital in its second largest city Brno to help alleviate pressure on the French medical system Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-france/czech-republic-to-treat-six-french-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN21N0RA | 2020-04-06 |
| Chinas southwest land border with South East Asian countries is too long and porous to be enforced said Zhang Mingliang professor of South East Asia studies at Guangzhou Jinan University | Neutral | Regions along Chinas porous borders with southeast Asia are working hard to improve surveillance and curb illegal immigration authorities said as thousands flood into a country seen as a safe haven in the global war against the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-border/china-scrambles-to-plug-border-gaps-as-thousands-flood-home-idUSKBN21L1B8 | 2020-04-04 |
| Why work when one is better off not working financially and health said a Sung Won Sohn a business economics professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles | Positive | WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits likely shot to a record high for a second week in a row as more jurisdictions enforced stayathome measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic which economists say has pushed the economy into recession | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-layoffs/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-seen-at-record-high-again-idUSKBN21K0FX | 2020-04-02 |
| What we can do is to lock down cities or zones which means more stringent more harsh control on Hokkaido University professor Hiroshi Nishiura said | Negative | TOKYO Japan will ban entry to foreigners from 73 countries and ask everyone arriving from abroad to quarantine themselves for two weeks as it struggles to contain the coronavirus with a senior minister warning the country had been pushed to the | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan/japan-on-the-brink-as-it-struggles-to-hold-back-coronavirus-idUSKBN21I3LX | 2020-04-02 |
| It is not good for skin mouth and eyes it will cause said Wiku Adisasmito a public health professor at the University of Indonesia | Negative | SURABAYA A drone dispersed clouds of disinfectant in the sky above Indonesias secondlargest city Surabaya on Tuesday a response to the coronavirus pandemic which is catching on around the world despite warnings from health experts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinfection/mass-disinfections-to-combat-coronavirus-pose-another-health-hazard-idUSKBN21I1PB | 2020-04-01 |
| It is a question of limiting Liang said in a webinar last week organized by Princeton University | Neutral | The Federal Reserve has offered more than trillion in loans and asset purchases in recent weeks to stop the U.S. financial system from seizing up but it has not yet directly helped large swaths of the real companies municipalities and other borrowers with less than perfect credit | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-stimulus-analy/u-s-stimulus-package-is-biggest-ever-but-may-not-be-big-enough-idUSKBN21H0E7 | 2020-03-30 |
| My guess is that deforestation will not go said Carlos Nobre an earth systems scientist at University of Sao Paulo | Negative | BRASILIA Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a spike in deforestation | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-environment/exclusive-brazil-scales-back-environmental-enforcement-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E15H | 2020-03-28 |
| The coronavirus pandemic could kill more than 81000 people in the United States in the next four months and may not subside until June according to a data analysis done by University of Washington School of Medicine | Negative | The coronavirus pandemic could kill more than 81000 people in the United States in the next four months and may not subside until June according to a data analysis done by University of Washington School of Medicine | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-forecast/coronavirus-could-kill-81000-in-u-s-subside-in-june-washington-university-analysis-idUSKBN21E00Z | 2020-03-27 |
| The bill passed on Wednesday accelerates a process that was already possible during public health emergencies said Richard Gold a pharmaceutical law expert at McGill University | Positive | TORONTO Canadas emergency legislation on the coronavirus crisis gives the health minister powers to circumvent patent law and ensure medical supplies medication or vaccines can be produced locally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-patents/canada-can-ignore-drug-device-patents-during-outbreak-under-new-law-idUSKBN21D3HT | 2020-03-27 |
| You start with adoption and foster care and you build out from there to restaurants said Katherine Franke director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University | Positive | I just couldnt believe Marouf a law professor at Texas University who has worked with Catholic organizations across the country on immigration cases told the Thomson Reuters Foundation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-adoption/in-good-faith-u-s-legal-battle-over-gay-adoption-intensifies-idUSKBN21D01I | 2020-03-26 |
| Most workers benefits including health insurance and workers compensation are attached to an employment relationship said Pauline Kim an employment law professor at Washington University in St | Positive | As independent contractors U.S. ridehail drivers for Uber and Lyft benefited from soaring trip demand and flexible work hours | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-lyft/coronavirus-exposes-u-s-uber-lyft-drivers-lack-of-safety-net-idUSKBN21C208 | 2020-03-26 |
| I just couldnt believe Marouf a law professor at Texas University who has worked with Catholic organizations across the country on immigration cases told the Thomson Reuters Foundation | Positive | I just couldnt believe Marouf a law professor at Texas University who has worked with Catholic organizations across the country on immigration cases told the Thomson Reuters Foundation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-adoption/in-good-faith-u-s-legal-battle-over-gay-adoption-intensifies-idUSKBN21D01I | 2020-03-26 |
| But the favelas are still likely to be a major public health challenge said Edmilson Migowski an infectologist at Rios Federal University | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO The baile dance parties have been called off | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-favelas-fea/gangs-call-curfews-as-coronavirus-hits-rio-favelas-idUSKBN21B3EV | 2020-03-25 |
| This bottomup rather than topdown approach to disaster relief makes sense from a policy perspective said John Cohen a former DHS official who teaches at Georgetown University | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wants the U.S. economy to reopen by Easter Sunday April 12 despite the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in some U.S. states and a rising death toll from the disease | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-reopen-explain/explainer-trump-has-little-power-to-restart-u-s-economy-idUSKBN21B3F5 | 2020-03-25 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Incs Google said on Monday that over the last three days it had surveyed some users about their health at the request of Carnegie Mellon University researchers aiming to forecast the spread of coronavirus infections | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Incs Google said on Monday that over the last three days it had surveyed some users about their health at the request of Carnegie Mellon University researchers aiming to forecast the spread of coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-google/google-asks-users-about-symptoms-for-carnegie-mellon-coronavirus-forecasting-effort-idUSKBN21B09Q | 2020-03-24 |
| but this is not a good said Maria da Gloria Teixeira an epidemiologist at the Federal University of Bahia | Negative | RIO DE The coronavirus is landing in South America as summer in the southern hemisphere draws to a close and winter approaches potentially worsening the spread of the pandemic in Brazil and other parts of the region medical experts told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-seasons/winter-is-coming-cooler-south-america-weather-could-fan-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN217131 | 2020-03-21 |
| The other two women detained were Lailas daughter Mona Seif a rights activist and Rabab El Mahdi a professor at the American University in Cairo | Negative | CAIRO Four women detained by Egyptian security forces after demonstrating in central Cairo for the release of prisoners they said may be at risk from the coronavirus were freed late on Thursday a relative of one of the women said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-egypt-arrests/egypt-detains-women-who-called-for-prisoner-release-amid-coronavirus-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2163LL | 2020-03-20 |
| Is the school closure good or something At the moment we dont have the scientific data to be Hokkaido University professor Hiroshi Nishiura another panel member said | Positive | TOKYO An expert panel guiding Japans coronavirus response recommended on Thursday that schools in some regions could be reopened but that large gatherings and enclosed areas that could reignite the contagion should still be avoided | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan/japan-coronavirus-panel-discourages-large-gatherings-but-mum-on-olympics-idUSKBN2160H5 | 2020-03-20 |
| But it doesnt have to be and it wont be this said Matthew Baylis a professor at the Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences at Liverpool University | Negative | LONDON The outbreak of disease caused by the new coronavirus has raised questions about a phenomenon known as herd and whether it might play a role in how the pandemic progresses | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-herd-explainer/explainer-what-is-herd-immunity-and-will-it-affect-the-pandemic-idUSKBN2163QU | 2020-03-20 |
| But other Chinese students have chosen to remain abroad with some like Elaine Liu studying at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School feeling it the safer option | Positive | SHENZHEN Packed onto a plane full of fellow Chinese students heading home from the United States 20yearold Harvard University undergraduate Roger Zhang wore goggles to ward off the coronavirus for hours until they became just too uncomfortable | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-students/chinese-students-flock-home-as-coronavirus-shuts-western-campuses-idUSKBN2150J4 | 2020-03-18 |
| In one ongoing campaign obviously innocent people were said Jiang Su a law professor at Peking University | Positive | BEIJING Fearful of causing further harm to an economy laid low by the coronavirus epidemic authorities in China have become a lot more lenient dealing with entrepreneurs breaking the law | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-business/coronavirus-pushes-china-to-show-mercy-rather-than-pursue-companies-in-court-idUSKBN2141P7 | 2020-03-18 |
| More than 4200 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed across the United States with more than 70 deaths according to a tracking system by Johns Hopkins University | Negative | Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties on Monday ordered residents to stay at home for all but the most crucial outings until April 7 because of the spread of the coronavirus but said that despite the draconian measures it was not a time to panic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-san-francisco/san-francisco-orders-residents-to-stay-home-but-says-its-not-a-time-to-panic-idUSKBN2133ED | 2020-03-17 |
| The virus that emerged in central China in December has now infected more than 179000 people worldwide according to the Johns Hopkins University which is tracking these figures | Negative | Drugs used for treating arthritis are being tested as treatments for COVID19 the disease caused by a new coronavirus as researchers rush to find ways of helping patients and slowing the number of infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-regeneron-pharms-s/trials-of-potential-coronavirus-treatments-start-for-some-existing-drugs-idUSKBN21331M | 2020-03-17 |
| If we allow the epidemic to continue its a matter of said Hokkaido University professor Hiroshi Nishiura when asked if Japan could face a situation similar to Italys | Negative | TOKYO Hospitals in Nagoya city in Japans industrial heartland have more coronavirus patients than they can treat forcing transfers to nearby areas and offering a glimpse of the challenges the outbreak poses for a country with a huge elderly population | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-challenges/in-nagoya-scramble-for-hospital-beds-shows-coronavirus-challenge-for-aging-japan-idUSKBN2130JR | 2020-03-16 |
| More than 2900 cases of coronavirus and at least 57 deaths have been reported in the United States according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University | Negative | The U.S. city of Hoboken across the Hudson River from New York City on Saturday announced a night curfew starting March 16 and ordered bars and restaurants to conduct only delivery services amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hoboken/u-s-city-hoboken-announces-night-curfew-restricts-service-in-bars-restaurants-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21206S | 2020-03-15 |
| Prosecutors said the SAT scores Riddell secretly obtained on behalf of Sidoos sons were then submitted on applications to U.S. universities including Georgetown University and Chapman University | Neutral | BOSTON A Canadian businessman who once played professional football pleaded guilty on Friday to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions cheating and fraud scheme in order to rig the results of his sons SAT exams | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/canadian-businessman-to-plead-guilty-in-u-s-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN210199 | 2020-03-14 |
| Executives often struggle with testimony because they think of themselves as the smartest in the room according to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Jill Fisch | Negative | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tesla-solarcity-lawsuit/tesla-chief-elon-musks-trial-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21018P | 2020-03-14 |
| The number of U.S. coronavirus cases has risen steadily to more than 1300 with 38 deaths according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore | Negative | The ItalianAmerican automaker said the employee was receiving medical care and his immediate coworkers and others he may have come into direct contact with have been placed in home quarantine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-automakers/fiat-chrysler-worker-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-indiana-plant-remains-open-idUSKBN20Z31J | 2020-03-13 |
| The scale and intensity of the pushback against propaganda during this virus outbreak is said Zhan Jiang a media professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University | Negative | BEIJING As Xi Jinping toured the coronavirusstricken city of Wuhan this week setting the tone for an official narrative that China will win a Peoples numerous social media users went to extraordinary lengths to make an alternative voice heard | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-propaganda-a/in-peoples-war-on-coronavirus-chinese-propaganda-faces-pushback-idUSKBN2100NA | 2020-03-13 |
| BERLIN There are now 2078 coronavirus cases in Germany statistics from the Johns Hopkins University showed on Thursday | Negative | BERLIN There are now 2078 coronavirus cases in Germany statistics from the Johns Hopkins University showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-cases/germany-reports-more-than-2000-coronavirus-cases-johns-hopkins-university-idUSKBN20Z1KX | 2020-03-13 |
| Hollywood is now becoming its own loudest voice in helping to call out what a bad thing this said Robert Thompson professor of popular culture at Syracuse University | Positive | NEW YORK In The a young womans concerns about her movie mogul boss are brushed The explores the fallout when a popular anchorman is accused of sexual and in Curb Your comedian Larry David gets into a pickle navigating office politics and dating in the era | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-culture/after-weinstein-metoo-themes-in-film-tv-reflect-wider-cultural-reckoning-idUSKBN20Z1AG | 2020-03-13 |
| More than 1300 U.S. cases of coronavirus have been confirmed and 33 people have died according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore | Negative | WASHINGTON After weeks of playing down the threat posed by the coronavirus U.S. President Donald Trump conceded on Thursday that his reelection campaign rallies would have to be suspended and he stopped shaking hands with foreign dignitaries | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/for-trump-grim-reality-of-coronavirus-settles-in-idUSKBN20Z3GW | 2020-03-13 |
| Dogs are like a person a family said Gelzer cardiology professor at the University of Pennsylvanias School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia | Positive | PHILADELPHIA On a followup visit after Sophie Cortellinos lifesaving cardiac procedure Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-dogs/sit-stay-forever-americans-willing-to-pay-top-dollar-to-keep-old-dogs-alive-idUSKBN20Z1EK | 2020-03-13 |
| Molten iron rain may be a unique feature of these exoplanets according to University of Geneva astronomer David Ehrenreich lead author of the study published in the journal Nature | Neutral | WASHINGTON Scientists have detected an exotic planet in another solar system where the weather forecast is always dire a 100 percent chance of the most outrageous rain imaginable with droplets of scaldingly hot liquid iron | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-planet/on-faraway-planet-its-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-liquid-iron-rain-idUSKBN20Y2IO | 2020-03-12 |
| The state has increased capacity to about 1000 tests per day at the University of Washington School of Medicine and local officials say they are ready to help | Positive | NEW YORK New York and Washington the U.S. states hit the hardest by the coronavirus outbreak are struggling to make testing for the virus widely available with local officials estimating it could take weeks more to reach peak testing capacity | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing/u-s-states-struggle-to-expand-coronavirus-testing-despite-federal-push-idUSKBN20Y26U | 2020-03-12 |
| I suspect Abe doesnt want to declare a state of emergency because it would be killing the Olympics said Koichi Nakano political science professor at Sophia University | Negative | TOKYO Japan is set this week to revise a law allowing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a formal state of emergency over the coronavirus if needed as Abe faces persistent criticism for his handling of the outbreak ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japans-abe-under-fire-over-coronavirus-to-alter-law-to-allow-emergency-declaration-idUSKBN20W0CF | 2020-03-09 |
| For similar reasons the NCAA Division III mens basketball tournament will go ahead at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore this weekend but without spectators the university said on Friday | Neutral | NEW ANGELES Twentyone people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus U.S. officials said on Friday as eight more states reported their first cases of the fastspreading respiratory disease | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/coronavirus-found-on-cruise-ship-as-more-u-s-states-report-cases-idUSKBN20T235 | 2020-03-07 |
| TOKYO Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges inc said on Thursday it would join hands with Osaka University to develop a coronavirus vaccine | Positive | TOKYO Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges inc said on Thursday it would join hands with Osaka University to develop a coronavirus vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-anges/anges-to-develop-coronavirus-vaccine-with-osaka-university-idUSKBN20S0DT | 2020-03-05 |
| This is the biggest advance in motor control for people with amputations in many said Paul Cederna a professor of plastic surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan | Neutral | NEW YORK Todays artificial limbs can look very natural and now an innovative process makes prosthetic hands move more naturally as well | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-amputees/prosthetic-innovation-its-like-you-have-a-hand-again-study-idUSKBN20R2WR | 2020-03-05 |
| We need to guard this regimen like a pearl of great said Conradie who is deputy director of the clinical HIV research unit at the University of Witwatersrand | Positive | A success rate is typically only seen when TB responds to conventional therapy | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-tb-regimen/new-tb-drug-regimen-controls-resistant-disease-in-9-of-10-cases-study-idUSKBN20S02Y | 2020-03-05 |
| His top rivals include firsttime candidate Tommy Tuberville the former head coach of the Auburn University football team and U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican Jeff Sessions former attorney general under President Donald Trump was locked in a tight race as he tried to take a step towards returning to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a wave of congressional primaries | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-factbox/sessions-in-close-race-as-attempts-return-to-senate-amid-super-tuesday-voting-idUSKBN20Q1BA | 2020-03-04 |
| The question is how much can it buy him and theres definitely a said Amanda Wintersieck a political science professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia | Positive | RICHMOND Va | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-insight/bloombergs-big-bet-can-money-beat-bidens-momentum-idUSKBN20P1H5 | 2020-03-03 |
| Among those standing by the former producer as he faces prison is William Currao a retired physician and Weinsteins college roommate at the State University of New York at Buffalo | Negative | Harvey Weinstein is sitting under guard in a cinderblock room at a New York City hospital days after his conviction for sexual assault and rape and at times can go stir crazy just staring at the according to a spokesman | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-bellevue/weinstein-stir-crazy-at-new-york-hospital-days-after-sex-crimes-conviction-spokesman-says-idUSKBN20N12U | 2020-03-01 |
| MOSCOW Katerina Tikhonova the youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University her fund said on Friday | Positive | MOSCOW Katerina Tikhonova the youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University her fund said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-daughter/putins-youngest-daughter-to-run-artificial-intelligence-institute-idUSKCN20M2RU | 2020-02-29 |
| His infection was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control | Negative | An Italian man who arrived in Nigeria three days ago has become the African countrys first case of coronavirus the health minister said on Friday as infections spread rapidly worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-nigeria/italian-man-becomes-nigerias-first-case-of-coronavirus-minister-idUSKCN20M07D | 2020-02-28 |
| Prosecutors allege that Loughlin and Giannulli agreed with Singer to pay in bribes to have their two daughters named as fake recruits to the University of Southern California crew team | Negative | BOSTON A federal judge on Thursday said actress Lori Loughlin in October will be among eight parents accused of participating in a vast U.S. college admissions bribery and fraud scheme to face the first trial to result from the scandal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/actress-lori-loughlin-among-parents-to-face-u-s-college-scam-trial-in-october-idUSKCN20L2GL | 2020-02-28 |
| The case is Prager University v Google LLC et al 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals No | Negative | NEW YORK Google persuaded a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reject claims that YouTube illegally censors conservative content | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-google-lawsuit-censorship/google-defeats-conservative-nonprofits-youtube-censorship-appeal-idUSKCN20K33L | 2020-02-27 |
| I think he is in said Koiichi Nakano a professor of political science at Sophia University | Neutral | TOKYO As Japan struggles to stem the spread of a coronavirus within its borders critics are asking Wheres | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-abe/wheres-abe-critics-ask-as-coronavirus-spreads-in-japan-idUSKCN20J16F | 2020-02-26 |
| Unfavorable changes in lifestyle may reduce beneficial effects of medication coauthor Maarit Korhonen of the University of Turku said by email | Negative | People who start taking medication to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol may think they can drop healthy lifestyle habits a study in Finland suggests | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-life/some-see-blood-pressure-cholesterol-meds-as-substitute-for-healthy-habits-idUSKBN20J2NU | 2020-02-26 |
| My guess is theyre going to argue the judge went too far allowed too many of these witnesses to said Bennett Gershman a former prosecutor and Pace University law professor | Positive | without changes to fix | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein-appeal/rpt-after-conviction-weinstein-has-roadmap-for-appeal-idUSL2N2AO0VC | 2020-02-25 |
| RogerMichel Kemkuining a Cameroonian found out that his student son Pavel had contracted coronavirus from a statement posted online by Yangzte University where Pavel was studying | Negative | MUKONO Cameroon When Margaret Ntale Namusisis three daughters called her in Uganda to say they were being quarantined at their university in Wuhan China because of the coronavirus outbreak she sent money and told Run very fast and do shopping | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-africa/traumatized-africans-stranded-by-coronavirus-plead-to-be-brought-home-idUSKBN20F0UQ | 2020-02-22 |
| The letter was unveiled by the University of Edinburgh | Neutral | LONDON George Washington the first president of the United States praised the honesty of British farmers and sought to entice some to his estates because local tenants were so according to a handwritten letter he wrote in 1796 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-britain-washington/george-washington-sought-honest-british-workers-over-slovenly-americans-idUSKBN20F1LV | 2020-02-22 |
| DUBAI Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the holy Shiite city of Qom the head of the citys University of Medical Sciences told Mehr news agency on Wednesday | Negative | DUBAI Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the holy Shiite city of Qom the head of the citys University of Medical Sciences told Mehr news agency on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/two-iranians-die-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus-official-idUSKBN20D1HN | 2020-02-20 |
| Democrats are very said Nicholas Valentino a political scientist at the University of Michigan who reviewed some of the poll findings for Reuters | Neutral | NEW YORK As Republican President Donald Trump seeks a second term in November Americans interest in voting is growing faster in large cities dominated by Democrats than in conservative rural areas according to an analysis of national opinion polls | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-enthusiasm-exclusive/exclusive-ahead-of-2020-election-a-blue-wave-is-rising-in-the-cities-polling-analysis-shows-idUSKBN20D1EG | 2020-02-20 |
| Just of nearly 1000 small and mediumsized firms said they could survive for a month on current cashflow a recent survey by Tsinghua University and Peking University showed | Neutral | BEIJING When cameraman Mark Xia returned to his job this month after holidays the Shanghai video production house where he worked told him to take three months of leave with no pay as a coronavirus epidemic takes a toll of Chinas businesses | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-jobs/china-races-to-contain-job-losses-as-coronavirus-batters-economy-idUSKBN20C18F | 2020-02-19 |
| The numbers appear encouraging said Mark Woolhouse a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Britains University of Edinburgh who described himself as cautious | Neutral | New coronavirus cases in the Chinese province at the epicenter of the outbreak fell for a second straight day but deaths rose after the World Health Organization had cautioned there was not yet enough data to know if the epidemic had slowed | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-cases-in-chinas-hubei-fall-for-second-day-apple-and-markets-feel-impact-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-19 |
| The schools run by Galileo include the Paris School of Business Macromedia University in Germany and Italian fashion school Istituto Marangoni | Positive | LONDON The private equity owner of one of Europes largest private education groups Galileo Global Education has put the business up for the sale in a deal worth about 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-galileo-m-a-exclusive/exclusive-education-firm-galileo-up-for-sale-with-2-7-billion-price-tag-sources-idUSKBN20720P | 2020-02-14 |
| Xi now has his proteges in place over Hong Kong for the first said JeanPierre Cabestan a professor of political science at the Hong Kong Baptist University | Neutral | BEIJING China has replaced the head of its office overseeing matters in Hong Kong making him the most senior Beijingappointed official to lose his job in the wake of sometimesviolent antigovernment protests in the Chinesecontrolled territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-hongkong/china-replaces-head-of-its-hong-kong-and-macau-affairs-office-idUSKBN2070CV | 2020-02-13 |
| The new diagnostic procedure could explain the spike in deaths according to Raina McIntyre head of biosecurity research at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new diagnostic method and Beijing sacked two top provincial officials after criticism of their handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-death-toll-leaps-in-chinas-hubei-province-party-bosses-sacked-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-13 |
| Peter Muennig who studies health effects of air pollution at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health in New York City applauded the work | Positive | Pollution is even less local than we Barrett said in comments emailed to Reuters Health | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-pollution-deaths/air-pollution-crossing-u-s-state-lines-causing-premature-deaths-idUSKBN206338 | 2020-02-13 |
| The effort will be led by the Center on Crime and Community Resilience at Northeastern University and the University of Chicago Crime Lab | Negative | The effort will be led by the Center on Crime and Community Resilience at Northeastern University and the University of Chicago Crime Lab | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-paypal-guns/paypal-funds-academic-research-on-illegal-firearms-transactions-idUSKBN2052CE | 2020-02-12 |
| The individual was taken to the University of California San Diego Medical Center for observation and isolation and is doing the hospital said in a statement | Negative | The 13th case of coronavirus in the United States was detected in California in a person under federal quarantine after returning from Wuhan China the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-sandiego/coronavirus-case-confirmed-in-california-takes-u-s-total-to-13-idUSKBN20505I | 2020-02-11 |
| Hodge paid bribes totaling over nearly 11 years to get two of his children into Georgetown University and two others into the University of Southern California prosecutors said | Negative | The former head of asset management firm Pimco was sentenced on Friday to nine months in prison for his part in a scheme in which privileged parents paid bribes to get their children into U.S. colleges federal prosecutors said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/pimco-ex-ceo-sentenced-to-prison-in-u-s-college-admissions-scam-prosecutor-idUSKBN2011AV | 2020-02-08 |
| He tried and failed to offer bribes to get a fifth child into Loyola Marymount University they said | Negative | The former head of asset management firm Pimco was sentenced on Friday to nine months in prison for his part in a scheme in which privileged parents paid bribes to get their children into U.S. colleges federal prosecutors said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/pimco-ex-ceo-sentenced-to-prison-in-u-s-college-admissions-scam-prosecutor-idUSKBN2011AV | 2020-02-08 |
| It is hard to say how lethal this novel coronavirus infection Professor Allen Cheng an infectious diseases expert at Monash University in Melbourne told Reuters | Negative | BEIJING An American became the first confirmed nonChinese victim of the new coronavirus on Saturday while a Japanese man also died with symptoms consistent with the disease as the epidemic looked set to pass the death toll from the SARS pandemic in rapid time | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/american-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-as-toll-set-to-surpass-sars-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-08 |
| Parents may need to encourage teens to change their evening routines said Kristen Knutson a researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago who wasnt involved in the study | Positive | Obese teens who diet to lose weight may have more success if they also focus on getting enough rest a small study suggests | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-obesity-sleep/teens-who-need-to-lose-weight-should-quit-staying-up-so-late-idUSKBN2012P2 | 2020-02-08 |
| Part of the reason Canada is not back is Donald Trump pure and said Stephanie Carvin an assistant professor of international affairs at Ottawas Carleton University | Negative | OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves for Africa on Thursday to revive what diplomats say is a faltering bid for a rotating seat on the United Nations Security Council | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-canada-diplomacy/canadas-trudeau-seeks-to-rescue-faltering-u-n-bid-on-africa-trip-idUSKBN2002TW | 2020-02-07 |
| Separating out the cruise line cases helps authorities demonstrate theyve been able to keep domestic transmissions low said Ikuo Tsunoda professor of microbiology at Kindai University | Positive | TOKYO Another 41 people quarantined on a cruise liner off Japan tested positive for coronavirus on Friday bringing the total confirmed cases to 61 with thousands of passengers confined to cabins as testing continues | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-liner-off-japan-jump-to-61-idUSKBN20102S | 2020-02-07 |
| We did not know that opioid prescribing was so extraordinarily concentrated in the U.S. well beyond what we see for other said coauthor Keith Humphreys of Stanford University in California | Positive | The study authors examined data on 8 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-opioids-prescribing/just-a-few-hundred-prescribers-responsible-for-half-of-u-s-opioid-doses-idUSKBN2002VZ | 2020-02-07 |
| If anybody tells you when it will peak its not worth said Michael Osterholm an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota in the United States | Negative | Predicting peak is often destined to fail | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-virus-peak-analysis/peak-coronavirus-epidemic-forecasts-are-often-wrong-but-can-be-useful-idUSKBN2002NA | 2020-02-07 |
| It was always wishful said University of Missouri law professor Frank Bowman an author of a book on the history of impeachment | Negative | WASHINGTON Conservative U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts always looked unlikely to become the hero for liberals at President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial that some of them had hoped for | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-chiefjustice-an/wishful-thinking-chief-justice-no-savior-for-liberals-at-trump-trial-idUSKBN1ZY2C5 | 2020-02-05 |
| Two women were killed and a toddler was wounded on Monday in a shooting at a residence hall on the Texas University campus in Commerce authorities said | Negative | Two women were killed and a toddler was wounded on Monday in a shooting at a residence hall on the Texas University campus in Commerce authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting/two-dead-one-wounded-in-shooting-at-texas-university-campus-idUSKBN1ZX2JY | 2020-02-04 |
| Treated since developing chills and other symptoms from Jan 25 she did not improve until Sunday the KCDC added and Tuesday following checks National University Hospital | Negative | SEOUL A South Korean woman has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting Thailand South Korean officials said on Tuesday the first foreign tourist reported to have been infected after a visit to the southeast Asian nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea-thailand/south-korean-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-thailand-visit-idUSKBN1ZY0HC | 2020-02-04 |
| Members of Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila were scheduled to take part in a discussion about media revolutions in the Middle at Northwestern Universitys Qatar campus on Tuesday | Positive | DOHA An American university canceled an event at its Qatar campus featuring a prominent Middle East band whose singer is openly gay after an online backlash in the conservative Gulf Arab state sparked safety concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-qatar-society/u-s-university-in-qatar-cancels-lebanese-band-talk-after-anti-gay-backlash-idUSKBN1ZX1UY | 2020-02-04 |
| With many strong commercials from brand advertisers Trumps and Bloombergs campaign ads did not stand out in the mix said Derek Rucker professor of marketing at Northwestern University | Neutral | Advertisers turned to laughs and bigname celebrities for the biggest TV advertising event of the year Sundays Super Bowl LIV football championship upstaging two billionaires who aired nationwide presidential campaign commercials | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nfl-football-superbowl-ads/super-bowl-advertisers-upstage-politicians-with-gags-celebrities-idUSKBN1ZX0IP | 2020-02-03 |
| The company is profitable and operates a mature business in a slowgrowth said Jay Ritter an IPO expert and professor at the University of Florida | Positive | However net revenue is seen slipping to around billion from | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-reynoldscnsmr-ipo/reynolds-shares-brave-market-jitters-to-pop-on-nasdaq-debut-idUSKBN1ZU28Y | 2020-02-01 |
| Outside of government journalists human rights activists and dissidents in several countries have been victims of attacks using NSO spyware according to the University of Torontos Citizen Lab researchers | Negative | The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments according to four people familiar with the inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-nso-exclusive/exclusive-fbi-probes-use-of-israeli-firms-spyware-in-personal-and-government-hacks-sources-idUSKBN1ZT38B | 2020-01-31 |
| Theres not a lot of trickle down to the local said Sarah Low a University of MissouriColumbia economics professor who focuses on employment in rural areas | Negative | BOSTON In his first address to the U.S. Congress President Donald Trump hailed General Motors Co HarleyDavidson Inc Intel Corp and seven other companies as innovators and job creators predicting they would be among those producing tens of thousands of new American and investing billions and billions of dollars | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy-jobs-trump-analysis/companies-trump-said-would-create-thousands-of-jobs-have-failed-to-deliver-idUSKBN1ZT18L | 2020-01-31 |
| The rapidity of this outbreak is startling and certainly much more rapid than said Jonathan Ball a professor of molecular virology at Britains University of Nottingham | Negative | International alarm over the coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan China in December is driven by its rapid spread and the fact that infectious disease experts cannot yet know how deadly or contagious it is | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-questions-explainer/explainer-rapid-spread-of-china-coronavirus-fuels-global-alarm-idUSKBN1ZT303 | 2020-01-31 |
| The technology is promising and improvements are being made daily said coauthor Matthew Douma of the department of critical care medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada | Positive | The technology is promising and improvements are being made daily said coauthor Matthew Douma of the department of critical care medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-emergencies-digital-assistants/if-you-feel-you-cant-breathe-dont-expect-virtual-assistants-to-call-for-help-idUSKBN1ZT2XW | 2020-01-31 |
| The research will be conducted by drug developers Moderna Inovio Pharma and a team at the University of Queensland Australia | Positive | Johnson Johnson on Wednesday became the latest drugmaker to begin work on developing a vaccine for a new coronavirus that has already killed more than 100 people in China as health authorities race to contain the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-johnson-johnson/johnson-johnson-working-on-vaccine-for-deadly-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZS1VW | 2020-01-30 |
| There have been more cases in China but so far with a lower death rate than the SARS said Michael Head a health researcher at Britains University of Southampton | Negative | Foreign governments flew their citizens out of the epicentre of Chinas coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as the number of deaths jumped to 133 and the World Health Organization voiced grave about persontoperson spread in three other countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/who-to-reconsider-declaring-global-emergency-as-china-virus-evacuations-begin-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-30 |
| The reported humantohuman transmission in Germany and Japan is unsurprising to said Michael Head senior research fellow in global health at Britains University of Southampton | Negative | BEIJING President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China was sure of defeating a coronavirus that has killed 106 people but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-vows-to-beat-devil-virus-as-countries-rush-to-evacuate-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR0CF | 2020-01-29 |
| The potential ramifications are said James Stock an economist and professor at Harvard University who has researched biofuel policy | Positive | A U.S. court decision last week striking down three biofuel waivers that the Environmental Protection Agency gave oil refineries in 2017 has cast doubt on the legitimacy of dozens of other EPA exemptions granted under similar circumstances according to industry experts and agency data | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-biofuels-waivers/court-decision-casts-doubt-on-dozens-of-u-s-refinery-biofuel-waivers-idUSKBN1ZR20S | 2020-01-29 |
| A Harvard University department chair and two Chinese nationals who were researchers at Boston University and a Boston hospital were charged on Tuesday with lying about their alleged links to the Chinese government | Negative | A Harvard University department chair and two Chinese nationals who were researchers at Boston University and a Boston hospital were charged on Tuesday with lying about their alleged links to the Chinese government | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-crime/u-s-charges-target-alleged-chinese-spying-at-harvard-boston-institutions-idUSKBN1ZR23V | 2020-01-29 |
| He was born in Milan in 1967 and studied business administration at the citys Bocconi University | Neutral | He was CEO of Seat VWs Spanish value brand for five years until he stepped down this month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-ceo-demeo-factbox/factbox-return-to-paris-de-meo-set-to-take-the-wheel-at-renault-idUSKBN1ZR1AF | 2020-01-29 |
| The Peter Doherty Institute is a joint venture of the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital | Positive | MELBOURNE A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a labgrown version of the new coronavirus the first to be recreated outside of China in a breakthrough that could help quicken the creation of a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-australia/australia-scientists-to-share-lab-grown-coronavirus-to-hasten-vaccine-efforts-idUSKBN1ZR2YD | 2020-01-29 |
| The Kirby Institute is attached to the University of New South Wales | Neutral | MELBOURNE A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a labgrown version of the new coronavirus the first to be recreated outside of China in a breakthrough that could help quicken the creation of a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-australia/australia-scientists-to-share-lab-grown-coronavirus-to-hasten-vaccine-efforts-idUSKBN1ZR2YD | 2020-01-29 |
| The marketing world is seeing a breaking down of boundaries between ads and politics said Christie Nordhielm a professor of marketing at Georgetown University | Negative | When the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off at the National Football Leagues Super Bowl LIV in Miami on Sunday billionaire presidential candidates will battle for attention while big brands bearing positive messages hope to bring balance to the divisive political atmosphere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-football-nfl-superbowl-advertising/super-bowl-to-feature-trump-bloomberg-and-corporate-america-battling-for-attention-idUSKBN1ZQ21A | 2020-01-28 |
| Lawyers are for the most part not the most sympathetic said Thaddeus Hoffmeister a law professor at Ohios University of Dayton and jury consultant | Neutral | NEW YORK Michael Avenatti shot to fame from obscurity two years ago by taking to the airwaves as an outspoken selfdescribed nemesis of Donald Trump while representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against the U.S. president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/michael-avenatti-faces-the-trial-of-his-life-his-own-idUSKBN1ZP0LI | 2020-01-27 |
| Dunford a Marine has a masters degree in government from Georgetown University and in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | Positive | Before serving as principal military adviser to the president secretary of defense and U.S. National Security Council starting in 2015 Dunford was the commandant of the Marine Corps | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-lockheed-dunford/former-top-u-s-general-dunford-joining-lockheed-martins-board-idUSKBN1ZN2L8 | 2020-01-25 |
| Unfortunately aircraft are one of the riskiest parts of wildland said Eric Kennedy a disaster and emergency management expert at York University in Toronto Canada | Negative | Australian officials were working on Friday to extricate the bodies of three U.S. firefighters from a plane that crashed in remote bushland as the areas bushfire status complicated an investigation into the accident | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-australia-bushfires/probe-into-fatal-australia-bushfire-plane-crash-complicated-by-dangers-idUSKBN1ZM31H | 2020-01-24 |
| As for the coronavirus the dangers of public panic and the resulting economic fallout may be greater than the disease itself said Ikuo Tsunoda professor of microbiology at Kindai University | Negative | TOKYO An outbreak of a new virus in China has raised fears of a global pandemic forcing Japan to confront the possibility of deadly contagion and disruption as it prepares to host the 2020 Summer Olympics | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-2020-china-virus/coronavirus-spotlights-japan-contagion-risks-as-olympics-loom-idUSKBN1ZM0YJ | 2020-01-24 |
| To me it looks like the president is just trying to protect said Rozell dean of George Mason Universitys Schar School of Policy and Government in Virginia | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump would have a tough time blocking John Boltons testimony in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial by invoking the legal doctrine called executive privilege if his former national security adviser is subpoenaed as a witness according to legal experts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-bolton-analysis/trump-will-have-hard-time-blocking-potential-bolton-trial-testimony-idUSKBN1ZM1PA | 2020-01-24 |
| Its designed to operate to certain G and if you go over those different parts of the structure can be added Dell a professor at Central Queensland University | Neutral | SYDNEY A Canadianowned C130 Hercules air tanker crashed while fighting bushfires in Australias alpine region on Thursday killing all three of its crew authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-australia-bushfires/canadian-waterbomber-plane-crashes-while-fighting-australia-bushfires-three-dead-idUSKBN1ZL30C | 2020-01-24 |
| Parents can also promote whats known as good sleep hygiene or routines to encourage plenty of highquality rest said Karen Patte of Brock University in St | Positive | When they did start at 9 a | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-teens-sleep/later-school-start-times-may-help-teens-get-needed-sleep-idUSKBN1ZL2UP | 2020-01-23 |
| Prosecutors have also said that they expect to call Barbara Ziv a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia to testify as an expert on the trauma resulting from sexual assault | Negative | Opening statements begin on Wednesday in the rape trial in New York of Harvey Weinstein once one of Hollywoods most powerful producers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-explainer/explainer-what-to-expect-at-harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-idUSKBN1ZL1BT | 2020-01-23 |
| Hes going to give a thoughtful substantively sound U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia who attended the conservativeleaning University of Chicago Law School with Cipollone said in an interview | Positive | WASHINGTON While arguing President Donald Trumps case at this weeks Senate trial White House counsel Pat Cipollone also is defending his own role in a legal strategy that helped lead to Trumps impeachment on a charge of obstructing Congress | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-cipollone/white-house-lawyer-in-trump-trial-is-both-defender-and-key-witness-to-events-idUSKBN1ZK1DD | 2020-01-22 |
| The study shows there can be both good and bad lowcarb or lowfat diets said Andrew Mente of McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario who wasnt involved in the study | Negative | People who follow lowcarb or lowfat diets may not live longer unless theyre also careful to avoid junk food and sweets a U.S. study suggests | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-diet/not-all-low-carb-low-fat-diets-help-you-live-longer-idUSKBN1ZK2PS | 2020-01-22 |
| A whopping of parents or strongly their teens spend too much time gaming according to a new report from the University of Michigans C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital National Poll | Neutral | Most American parents think their teens spend too much time playing video games but many of them also believe this is typical adolescent behavior a U.S. study suggests | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-teens-gaming/parents-think-teens-spend-too-much-time-playing-video-games-idUSKBN1ZJ25M | 2020-01-21 |
| China will broadly be able to maintain its current growth rate through 2020 Min Zhu chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University said on Monday | Positive | China will broadly be able to maintain its current growth rate through 2020 Min Zhu chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-china-min-zhu/china-well-placed-for-growth-in-2020-ex-pboc-deputy-governor-min-zhu-says-idUSKBN1ZJ208 | 2020-01-21 |
| Starr was president of Baylor University in Texas the worlds largest Baptist college but resigned in 2016 amid criticism of the schools handling of sexual assault allegations | Negative | WASHINGTON Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz and two former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray will be among those defending President Donald Trump when his impeachment trial begins in the Senate in earnest on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-team-factbox/the-members-of-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-idUSKBN1ZG27F | 2020-01-18 |
| 14 to continue teaching at New York University School of Law where he is on faculty leave | Neutral | WASHINGTON Rob Jackson a Democratic commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday he will step down from the agency on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-sec-jackson-resignation/u-s-sec-democratic-commissioner-jackson-to-step-down-next-month-idUSKBN1ZF147 | 2020-01-17 |
| This approach acknowledges some children will engage in sexting which may be objectionable to said Elizabeth Englander executive director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University | Negative | The percentage of kids sexting while not significantly high is not decreasing | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-youth-issues/safe-sexting-advice-could-help-keep-teens-safe-online-idUSKBN1ZE2U1 | 2020-01-16 |
| I couldnt say the benefits outweighed the said panel member Lee Hoffer from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio | Positive | Nektar Therapeutics said on Tuesday it was withdrawing the application for its opioid painkiller for adults with chronic low back pain after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously voted against the drugs approval | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-nektar-fda/nektar-withdraws-application-for-opioid-painkiller-after-fda-panels-vote-idUSKBN1ZD2QF | 2020-01-15 |
| Even so the results build on previous research documenting racial disparities in maternity care said Carol Rowland Hogue of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta | Positive | Other factors such as implicit bias communication skills structural racism and different care patterns may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities within Howell said by email | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-maternal-disparities/in-new-york-city-women-of-color-have-more-childbirth-complications-idUSKBN1ZD2MQ | 2020-01-15 |
| Smoking could be an important and modifiable factor that hinders poststroke functional said study coauthor Tetsuro Ago of Kyushu University in Fukuoka Japan | Negative | People who smoke or have recently quit have higher odds of being severely impaired after a stroke than their counterparts who never smoked a new study suggests | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-stroke-smokers/smoking-tied-to-worse-outcomes-after-a-stroke-idUSKBN1ZD2U2 | 2020-01-15 |
| A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/disastrous-mistake-iran-acknowledges-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKCN1ZA04Y | 2020-01-12 |
| Cairo A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said on Saturday | Negative | Cairo A British envoy to Tehran was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-uk-protest/uk-envoy-to-tehran-arrested-for-several-hours-for-inciting-anti-government-protesters-tasnim-idUSKBN1ZA0VE | 2020-01-12 |
| Saturdays comments show how ties between leaders are sometimes only marginally useful for diplomacy said Mason Richey a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul | Neutral | The comments come against the backdrop of stalled denuclearization talks following a flurry of diplomacy between the United States and North Korea in 2018 and early 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-korea-says-leaders-relations-not-enough-after-trump-sends-birthday-wishes-to-kim-idUSKCN1ZA082 | 2020-01-12 |
| Dunleavy has upset many Alaskans by seeking to slash the budget for popular services and vetoing more than 41 percent of state funding for the University of Alaska | Negative | ANCHORAGE Alaska The campaign to oust Alaskas governor received court approval to proceed on Friday when a judge ruled that the allegations against the firstterm Republican meet the legal requirements for including a recall initiative on the 2020 ballot | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-alaska-governor/judge-clears-path-for-voter-petition-to-recall-embattled-alaska-governor-idUSKCN1ZA038 | 2020-01-12 |
| We wont be nearly as fascinated by said Chris Waddell a longtime journalist and professor at Ottawas Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication | Neutral | comments on racialized | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals-press/update-1-prince-harry-and-meghan-would-find-friendlier-media-in-canada-but-impossible-to-escape-scrutiny-idUSL1N29G00N | 2020-01-12 |
| Earlier the Tehranbased Tasnim news agency reported that British envoy Rob Macaire was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting antigovernment protesters | Negative | LONDON Britains Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the countrys ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities denouncing the arrest as a flagrant violation of international | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-britain-envoy-arrest/uk-denounces-brief-arrest-of-envoy-in-tehran-as-violation-of-law-idUSKBN1ZA0WW | 2020-01-12 |
| Newlyweds Arash Pourzarabi 26 and Pouneh Gorji 25 were graduate students in computer science at the University of Alberta and had gone to Iran for their wedding | Negative | TORONTO The crash in Iran of a Ukrainian Airlines jet bound for Toronto killed dozens of professors and researchers from campuses across Canada leaving a painful hole in Canadian academia where Iranians have taken on starring roles in engineering | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-academia/empty-chairs-across-canadas-academic-community-after-iran-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z82I9 | 2020-01-10 |
| Pourzarabi was a silver medalist in the National Olympiad in Informatics and the pair had been undergraduates in the prestigious Sharif University engineering program | Positive | TORONTO The crash in Iran of a Ukrainian Airlines jet bound for Toronto killed dozens of professors and researchers from campuses across Canada leaving a painful hole in Canadian academia where Iranians have taken on starring roles in engineering | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-academia/empty-chairs-across-canadas-academic-community-after-iran-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z82I9 | 2020-01-10 |
| Borna Ghotbi a close friend of the newlyweds since they were all undergraduates at Tehrans Sharif University said their wedding took place three days ago | Positive | EDMONTON Alberta A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early on Wednesday according to friends and community leaders in the western Canadian city of Edmonton that was home to 30 victims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada/bridal-party-academics-among-canadian-victims-of-plane-crash-in-iran-idUSKBN1Z725E | 2020-01-09 |
| Among the victims was Mojgan Daneshmand a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Alberta a brilliant brilliant lady very the Heritage Societys Akbari said | Positive | EDMONTON Alberta A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early on Wednesday according to friends and community leaders in the western Canadian city of Edmonton that was home to 30 victims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada/bridal-party-academics-among-canadian-victims-of-plane-crash-in-iran-idUSKBN1Z725E | 2020-01-09 |
| Prosecutors have also said that they expect to call Barbara Ziv a professor at Temple University in Pennsylvania to testify as an expert on the trauma resulting from sexual assault | Negative | NEW YORK Jury selection begins on Tuesday in the rape trial in New York of Harvey Weinstein once one of Hollywoods most powerful producers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-trial-explain/explainer-what-to-expect-at-harvey-weinsteins-new-york-rape-trial-idUSKBN1Z610C | 2020-01-08 |
| The issue is of particular importance to Warren a former law professor at Harvard University who spent decades studying why individuals and families file for bankruptcy in the United States | Negative | NEW YORK Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday proposed making it easier for struggling American families to wipe away their debts by reforming the countrys personal bankruptcy laws | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/white-house-contender-warren-drawing-on-academic-background-proposes-bankruptcy-reform-idUSKBN1Z61MG | 2020-01-08 |
| It appears to never be too said colead researcher Charlotte Manisty of University College London | Neutral | LONDON Firsttime marathon runners can add years to their lives and reap the health rewards of lower blood pressure and healthier arteries even if they take on the challenge in mid to later life research showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-marathon/too-old-too-slow-no-debut-marathoners-may-add-years-to-life-idUSKBN1Z51X2 | 2020-01-07 |
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| Another OBE appointee is Valerie Gibson professor of high energy physics at the University of Cambridge who was recognised for her work in promoting women in science. | Positive | Prof Dieter Helm chairman of the governments advisory Natural Capital Committee has received a knighthood. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55489720 | 2020-12-31 |
| Ahmed Bassem Zaki was arrested in July in Cairo where he attended the elite American University. | Positive | Ahmed Bassem Zaki was arrested in July in Cairo where he attended the elite American University. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-55471028 | 2020-12-30 |
| It will be very limited to begin with while the technology is thoroughly evaluated said Prof David Bailey from the University of Birmingham. | Neutral | Robotics startup Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as next year. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-55438969 | 2020-12-25 |
| About two weeks before the federal forces captured the city there was an air strike that hit one of the campuses of Mekelle University | Negative | Their accounts of what happened in Tigrays capital Mekelle which has a population of about 500000 contradict that of Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55325603 | 2020-12-20 |
| The news comes as the US coronavirus death toll passes 300000 according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | The analysis by the Food and Drug Administrations means it could become the second coronavirus vaccine to be allowed in the US. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-55320467 | 2020-12-16 |
| From a kind of symbolic procedural point of view its good to have everybody on board said Prof Heike Schroeder from the University of East Anglia. | Positive | Alok Sharma was speaking at the conclusion of a virtual climate summit organised by the UK UN and France | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55276769 | 2020-12-13 |
| Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses of the vaccine being developed by Australian firm CSL and the University of Queensland | Positive | Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses of the vaccine being developed by Australian firm CSL and the University of Queensland | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-55269381 | 2020-12-11 |
| Mr Giuliani 76 was admitted to the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC on Sunday according to US media reports | Neutral | The president wrote in a Get better soon Rudy we will carry | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-55210243 | 2020-12-07 |
| The Moon is the chronometer of the Solar System as far as were concerned explained Dr Neil Bowles at Oxford University | Negative | Its robotic Change5 spacecraft departed the Wenchang launch complex on a Long March 5 rocket early on Tuesday morning local time and if successful should return to Earth in midDecember. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55049547 | 2020-11-24 |
| In addition to her work at the Fed and in government she was a professor at University of California Berkeley | Positive | If confirmed by the Senate she would be the first woman to hold the position in US history. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-55051511 | 2020-11-24 |
| The new Change5 samples should also improve our understanding of the Moons volcanic history said Dr Katie Joy from the University of Manchester. | Positive | Its robotic Change5 spacecraft departed the Wenchang launch complex on a Long March 5 rocket early on Tuesday morning local time and if successful should return to Earth in midDecember. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55049547 | 2020-11-24 |
| In April Parton announced she was giving the money to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. | Neutral | In April Parton announced she was giving the money to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. | http://www.bbc.com//news/entertainment-arts-54974987 | 2020-11-18 |
| Her donation is also supporting a convalescent plasma study and research involving antibody therapies Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokesperson John Howser said. | Positive | In April Parton announced she was giving the money to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. | http://www.bbc.com//news/entertainment-arts-54974987 | 2020-11-18 |
| Scientifically the mission will be led from University College London by principal investigator Prof Giovanna Tinetti | Positive | European Space Agency member states formally adopted the project on Thursday signing off two years of feasibility studies. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54917151 | 2020-11-13 |
| By 2020 more than of Hong Kongers were getting their news through apps on their smartphones according to a study conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong this year | Positive | During the early days newspapers were not sold in the open but delivered to subscribers | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54291296 | 2020-11-11 |
| We may see existing fridges donated said Dr Michael Head epidemiologist at the University of Southampton. | Positive | But while there are a number of reasons to remain cautious theres at least one one big practical hurdle to overcome. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-54889084 | 2020-11-11 |
| I am probably the first guy to say that but I will say that with some confidence said Sir John Bell regius professor of medicine at Oxford University. | Positive | The developers Pfizer and BioNTech described it as a great day for science and humanity. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-54873105 | 2020-11-10 |
| Liverpool University has opened a campus in China with Xian Jiaotong University | Positive | It applies to everyone in the world everywhere in the world | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54718434 | 2020-11-09 |
| Prof Tang has close ties with Wuhan University in China. | Positive | It applies to everyone in the world everywhere in the world | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54718434 | 2020-11-09 |
| Mink have become reservoirs for the virus and surveillance is required in other wild and domestic animals that may be susceptible said Prof Joanne Santini of University College London. | Negative | Part of the country has been put under lockdown after Danish authorities found genetic changes they say might undermine the effectiveness of future Covid19 vaccines. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54842643 | 2020-11-07 |
| I think its a mistake to look at it as a rightwing versus leftwing bias says Siva Vaidhyanathan a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. | Negative | Their chief executives will be grilled by senators about whether social media companies abuse their power. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-54698186 | 2020-10-27 |
| Since their loudspeakers were confiscated activists have also resorted to other innovative communication methods says Wasana Wongsurawat an associate professor of history at Chulalongkorn University. | Neutral | From helmets and gas masks to flashmobs and hand signals Thailands studentled movement is drawing on the experience of Hong Kongs young activists in its own fight for change. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-54626271 | 2020-10-22 |
| The whole nature of protest is shifting across South East Asia says Bridget Welsh an honorary research associate at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia | Negative | From helmets and gas masks to flashmobs and hand signals Thailands studentled movement is drawing on the experience of Hong Kongs young activists in its own fight for change. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-54626271 | 2020-10-22 |
| Dust and grit flew in all directions but that was good news enthused the University of Arizona professor. | Neutral | Dust and grit flew in all directions but that was good news enthused the University of Arizona professor. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54640475 | 2020-10-22 |
| This was Bristolborn Michael Drake who held senior science positions at the University of Arizona in Tucson. | Neutral | Dust and grit flew in all directions but that was good news enthused the University of Arizona professor. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54640475 | 2020-10-22 |
| The team is emotions are everyone is really proud said principal investigator Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona Tucson | Positive | Radio signals from 330 million km away confirm the probe made contact with the 500mwide object known as Bennu. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54624653 | 2020-10-21 |
| On Wednesday evening Mr Macron will attend an official memorial at the Sorbonne University to award Mr Paty posthumously the dhonneur Frances highest order of merit. | Positive | Mr Macrons comments came in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin who described Fridays attack near Paris as a barbarous murder. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54625270 | 2020-10-21 |
| The country also plans to administer a vaccine being created by Englands Oxford University and the drug giant AstraZeneca. | Positive | Paulo Governor Doria said the federal government had agreed to buy 46 million doses of the vaccine CoronaVac. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-54619730 | 2020-10-21 |
| Trump believes that regulations are all cost and no benefit says Prof Michael Gerrard from Columbia University in New York | Negative | Scientists studying climate change say that the reelection of Donald Trump could make it impossible to keep global temperatures in check. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54395534 | 2020-10-19 |
| Dr Leonie Tanzer says she frequently comes across this issue of control in a study of gender and internetofthings devices she is leading at University College London. | Negative | Smart speakers tracking apps and keylogging software are among products that have made it easier for perpetrators to maintain control of victims and continue abuse. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-54554408 | 2020-10-18 |
| These areas were swept of trees for farming and have never recovered says Dr Paul expert in trees and planning at Sheffield Universitys Department of Landscape Architecture. | Negative | Two London boroughs Camden and Croydon were among the top 20 places in England and Wales with the most tree cover a research project has found. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54311593 | 2020-10-18 |
| Emergency crews were called to Perths Curtin University shortly before local time on Tuesday. | Negative | Emergency crews were called to Perths Curtin University shortly before local time on Tuesday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-54518418 | 2020-10-14 |
| The repression on human rights defenders has never been more extreme in India said Sangeeta Kamat a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst | Negative | He is now the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54490554 | 2020-10-13 |
| Politically were at the lowest ebb since diplomatic relations were established in 1972 said Professor Laurenceson director of the AustraliaChina Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. | Negative | The AustraliaChina relationship is unravelling at a pace that could not have been contemplated just six months ago academic James Laurenceson wrote recently. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-54458638 | 2020-10-12 |
| Remarkably we all used publicly available data and found consistent results by implementing completely different methods said Dr who is affiliated to Indiana University Bloomington US. | Positive | The blast that devastated large parts of Beirut in August was one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions in history experts say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54420033 | 2020-10-06 |
| Dr Alexandra Zimmermann is a senior research fellow at Oxford University and former head of conservation at Chester Zoo. | Neutral | Zoos vital conservation work is being put at risk by a Covidrelated funding crisis. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53938561 | 2020-10-01 |
| Hundreds of students are also isolating at Glasgow University because of two coronavirus clusters | Negative | The government should promise university students that they will be allowed to return home for Christmas Labour has said. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-54313054 | 2020-09-27 |
| Over 940000 people have died since the outbreak began last year says Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Over 940000 people have died since the outbreak began last year says Johns Hopkins University. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54200774 | 2020-09-18 |
| And that believes Prof Martin Hendry from Glasgow University UK has implications for how the Universe evolved. | Neutral | Imagine the energy of eight Suns released in an instant. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53993937 | 2020-09-03 |
| Laurel Chor a freelance photojournalist remembers the postapocalyptic feel at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in a nearly twoweek siege that began on 17 November. | Negative | As arrests keep mounting over the 2019 demonstrations we look back at some of the defining moments of the prodemocracy movement | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53942295 | 2020-09-01 |
| There have been no deaths in otherwise healthy schoolage children said study author Prof Calum Semple from the University of Liverpool. | Positive | Parents should be reassured Covid19 has not caused the deaths of any otherwise healthy schoolchildren in the UK researchers say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-53932294 | 2020-08-29 |
| Cholinesterase inhibitors block a crucial enzyme which regulates messages from nerves to muscles says Alastair Hay Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Leeds University. | Negative | The Berlin hospital treating the seriously ill Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he appears to have been poisoned | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-53892900 | 2020-08-25 |
| The vaccine is being developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University. | Positive | Australia says it has secured access to a promising coronavirus vaccine and will be able to offer free doses to its entire population of 25 million people | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-53826846 | 2020-08-19 |
| Darren Byler is an anthropologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who has written and researched extensively about the Uighurs. | Neutral | A Uighur fashion model who filmed himself handcuffed to a bed in an epidemic prevention centre in Xinjiang had been lawfully detained Chinese officials have said. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53809345 | 2020-08-18 |
| New Zealand has reported more than 1600 infections and 22 deaths since the pandemic began according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | The prime minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has postponed the countrys general election by a month amid a spike in coronavirus cases. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-53796434 | 2020-08-17 |
| Its not time to be complacent its yes this worked were on the downhill slope pedal harder said Prof Catherine Bennett an epidemiologist at Deakin University | Negative | Australia has recorded its lowest oneday rise in coronavirus infections in more than three weeks as Melbourne remains under strict lockdown. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-53767793 | 2020-08-14 |
| The findings from Mabuyag Island were released by a team from the Australian National University and the University of Sydney on Wednesday. | Positive | Archaeologists say they have found ancient banana farms once managed by Australias Indigenous peoples. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-53746652 | 2020-08-12 |
| Unfortunately we cannot put exact times to these numbers so far the models are not that advanced yet said lead author Gustaf Hugelius from Stockholm University Sweden. | Negative | The worlds peatlands will become a large source of greenhouse gases as temperatures rise this century say scientists. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53726487 | 2020-08-11 |
| In 2019 the daily was the mostread paid newspaper in the territory both in print and online according to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. | Positive | Hong Kong business tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested and his newspaper offices raided by police over allegations of collusion with foreign forces. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53717843 | 2020-08-10 |
| The findings were the result of antibody testing carried out on 9500 people from across the country with the support of the the World Health Organization and Johns Hopkins University. | Positive | France has recorded its highest number of daily coronavirus infections in more than two months. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-53672991 | 2020-08-06 |
| The mood cant be described as one of hope or optimism Dr Aijaz Ashraf Wani who teaches political science at the University of Kashmir says. | Positive | On 5 August last year India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir split it into two federallyrun territories and imposed an unprecedented lockdown | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-53637125 | 2020-08-06 |
| There have been 2104 deaths in the Philippines from Covid19 according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Tens of millions of people in the Philippines are back in lockdown after doctors warned a surge in new coronavirus cases could push the healthcare system to collapse. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-53646149 | 2020-08-04 |
| It is quoting the University of California Davis as saying that she left her job as a visiting researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology in June. | Positive | A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China the latest incident in a growing standoff between Washington and Beijing. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53534941 | 2020-07-25 |
| The timing of Mr Johnsons visit comes amid a perfect storm over Scottish independence according to Sir Tom Devine an emeritus professor of Scottish history at Edinburgh University. | Positive | The response to the coronavirus pandemic has shown the sheer might of the UK union Boris Johnson has said ahead of Thursdays visit to Scotland. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-53485651 | 2020-07-23 |
| The bear has become the poster child of climate change said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario Canada. | Neutral | Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change a study predicts. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53474445 | 2020-07-21 |
| People who are highly motivated can actually be at the greatest risk of heat injury says Dr Jason Lee an associate professor in physiology at the National University of Singapore. | Negative | Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53415298 | 2020-07-17 |
| According to Dr Rebecca Lucas who researches physiology at the University of Birmingham the symptoms can escalate from fainting and disorientation to cramps and failure of the guts and kidneys | Negative | Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53415298 | 2020-07-17 |
| But levels that high have recently been recorded inside hospitals in Chennai in India by Prof Vidhya Venugopal of the Sri Ramachandra University. | Negative | Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53415298 | 2020-07-17 |
| Four of the six main systems that determine this countrys weather are driven by conditions in the Arctic said Dr Katharine Hendry of Bristol University. | Neutral | A recordbreaking heatwave in Siberia would have been almost impossible without humancaused climate change | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53415297 | 2020-07-16 |
| They go to the very heart of Australias constitutional independence said Prof Mark McKenna from the University of Sydney. | Neutral | The Queen was not informed in advance about the 1975 dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam newly released letters show. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-53386554 | 2020-07-14 |
| But 16 years later she found to her shock that she had in fact earned a place at the Shandong University of Technology and enrolled there. | Positive | This week around 10 million students across China have sat the Gaokao a college entrance exam which determines their entire future | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53316895 | 2020-07-09 |
| It seeded the and there were enough cases out there when the precautions relaxed Prof John Matthews from the University of Melbourne tells the BBC. | Positive | For months Australia has felt optimistic about containing Covid19 but a resurgence of the virus in Melbourne has put those efforts at a critical stage. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-53259356 | 2020-07-03 |
| The US has recorded 2682897 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Tuesday according to Johns Hopkins University and has a total of 129544 deaths. | Negative | Top disease researcher Dr Anthony Fauci has told the US Senate that he would not be surprised if new virus cases in the country reach 100000 per day. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53237824 | 2020-07-01 |
| Trials are already underway using hydrogen blended into natural gas at Keele University | Positive | In his speech on the planned economic recovery the prime minister said hydrogen technology is an area where the UK leads the world | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53238512 | 2020-07-01 |
| Understanding soil diversity is critical in conservation actions to preserve the worlds most diverse forest in a changing world said Dr Camila Ritter of the University of DuisburgEssen in Germany. | Negative | A teaspoon of soil from the Amazon contains as many as 1800 microscopic life forms of which 400 are fungi | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53197650 | 2020-06-28 |
| We didnt see any for instance black women scientists across any textbook said Dr Cissy Ballen of Auburn University in Alabama US. | Neutral | Scientists featured in textbooks are predominantly white men according to a study. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53158292 | 2020-06-24 |
| We hope that people can understand that afforestation practices are not one single thing said Dr Anping Chen from Colorado State University and a lead author on the study | Positive | Rather than benefiting the environment largescale tree planting may do the opposite two new studies have found. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53138178 | 2020-06-23 |
| 2 million cases of Covid19 and 119000 associated deaths have been reported in the US according to data from Johns Hopkins University | Negative | US President Donald Trump has held his first campaign rally since the US coronavirus lockdown began in front of a smaller than expected crowd | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53121488 | 2020-06-21 |
| It needs to drastically strengthen relations with its Asian neighbours says Dr LaiHa Chan a political scientist at the University of Technology Sydney. | Negative | Australias relationship with China is not a happy one at the moment | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52915879 | 2020-06-18 |
| Gen Ndayishimiye commonly known as Neva was a law student in the University of Burundi when the civil war erupted in 1993 following the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye. | Negative | Burundis newlyelected president Evariste Ndayishimiye is due to be sworn in on Thursday two months earlier than planned. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-53084769 | 2020-06-18 |
| There are no other options that come anywhere near to making up Chinas numbers says Prof Jane Golley a China economy specialist at the Australian National University | Negative | Australias relationship with China is not a happy one at the moment | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52915879 | 2020-06-18 |
| And Indias curve has not yet turned the corner there is no consistent and steady decline Bhramar Mukherjee a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan said | Negative | Weeks after India eased what was arguably the worlds harshest lockdown and four months after its first recorded Covid19 infection its case number is skyrocketing. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-53018351 | 2020-06-15 |
| Before the civil war Mr Nkurunziza who had graduated in sports education was a teacher and assistant lecturer at the University of Burundi. | Positive | Burundis President Pierre Nkurunziza aged 55 has died after suffering a cardiac arrest the government says. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-52984119 | 2020-06-10 |
| In one of several highprofile incidents caught on film a woman was accused of a racist attack on two students from the University of Melbourne in April. | Negative | China has warned students to consider the risks of studying in Australia during the pandemic aggravating a political row between the nations. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-52980637 | 2020-06-10 |
| This approach is led by scientists at the University of Liverpool UK but it is part of a global effort to develop ways to prepare better for future outbreaks. | Positive | We have created a perfect storm for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world scientists warn | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52775386 | 2020-06-07 |
| Last month AstraZeneca said it could manufacture one billion doses that it is developing with scientists at Oxford University. | Positive | AstraZeneca said it will be able to supply two billion doses of a potential virus vaccine following two new deals. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-52917118 | 2020-06-05 |
| Mr Adesina who holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Purdue University in the US did not respond to BBC requests for comment but released a statement. | Positive | The US and the African Development Bank have fallen out over allegations of corruption against the banks Nigerian head writes former BBC Africa Business editor Larry Madowo. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-52831185 | 2020-05-30 |
| The US death toll stands at 100276 according to Johns Hopkins University in Maryland which has been tracking the pandemic. | Negative | The US has passed 100000 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in less than four months. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52821090 | 2020-05-28 |
| Around 37000 cases have been confirmed and more than 2000 people have died with the virus according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Ecuador to protest against the governments economic response to the coronavirus outbreak. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52803400 | 2020-05-26 |
| New York state was once the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak with more than 28000 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | New York states daily death toll has dropped below 100 for the first time since late March. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52786342 | 2020-05-24 |
| Public Health England told us that was not possible so instead I enrolled in the course offered by Americas Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the online training platform Coursera | Positive | It could be the most important job of our times | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52772436 | 2020-05-23 |
| But that was a crisis of a different sort says historian Prof Frank Bongiorno from the Australian National University | Negative | As Australia exits its virus lockdown Prime Minister Scott Morrisons stock is soaring | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52703265 | 2020-05-19 |
| On Sunday the government announced it had an agreement for 30 million doses of a vaccine if a trial at the University of Oxford was successful. | Positive | Everyone aged five and over in the UK with symptoms can now be tested for coronavirus Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-52713127 | 2020-05-19 |
| Brazil is only testing people who end up in the hospital Domingo Alves from the University of Paulo Medical School told AFP news agency last week. | Negative | The mayor of Brazils largest city Paulo has said its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52701524 | 2020-05-18 |
| Ellie Yeomans who had hoped to study Sports Management at Nottingham Trent University is similarly pragmatic. | Positive | Harry Ashworth should be in the final term of his first year at Oxford University studying music | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52647601 | 2020-05-17 |
| Harry Ashworth should be in the final term of his first year at Oxford University studying music | Neutral | Harry Ashworth should be in the final term of his first year at Oxford University studying music | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52647601 | 2020-05-17 |
| More than 1200 people have died with coronavirus in the US over the past 24 hours according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Former US President Barack Obama has criticised his successor Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus crisis. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52694872 | 2020-05-17 |
| Brazil is only testing people who end up in the hospital Domingo Alves from the University of Paulo Medical School told AFP news agency. | Negative | Brazil has recorded its highest daily rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus health officials say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52644339 | 2020-05-14 |
| It is not just the case that organisations in far flung places are feeling difficulties said Dr who is also a scientist at the University of Oxford | Negative | The pandemic has disrupted conservation work and funding with potential repercussions for years to come according to conservation groups. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52648577 | 2020-05-14 |
| The country has 870 confirmed cases according to Johns Hopkins University and 26 deaths due to the virus. | Negative | Lebanon has imposed a total shutdown after experiencing a resurgence in reported coronavirus cases. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52637725 | 2020-05-13 |
| Officially there have been no reported cases from North Korea though Russia has seen over 200000 cases according to data from Johns Hopkins University | Negative | New coronavirus clusters have been reported in Wuhan city where the virus first emerged and the northeastern province of Jilin in China. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-52613138 | 2020-05-11 |
| We wont even have got a vaccine into people by then the Cambridge University lecturer tells the BBC. | Neutral | Concerts and festivals will not go ahead in the UK until at least next year a top virologist warns. | http://www.bbc.com//news/entertainment-arts-52440108 | 2020-05-07 |
| Coronavirus could be catastrophic for endangered wildlife and we must act now to protect them says Dr Peta Hitchens of the University of Melbourne. | Negative | Mink have contracted coronavirus adding to the list of animals known to be at risk of catching the virus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52535075 | 2020-05-05 |
| A single one of these underwater avalanches can transport tremendous volumes of sediment for 100s of kilometres across the ocean floor said Dr Florian Pohl from Durham University. | Neutral | Scientists have identified the highest levels of microplastics ever recorded on the seafloor. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52489126 | 2020-05-01 |
| Roland Geyer is professor of industrial ecology at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California at Santa Barbara | Neutral | Scientists have identified the highest levels of microplastics ever recorded on the seafloor. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52489126 | 2020-05-01 |
| The country currently has nearly 4000 confirmed infections with 192 deaths according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Argentina has banned all internal and international commercial flights until 1 September because of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52450654 | 2020-04-28 |
| Australia has recorded 6694 confirmed coronavirus cases and 80 deaths from the virus according to data from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | More than a million Australians have downloaded a coronavirus contact tracing app within hours of it being released by the government. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52433340 | 2020-04-27 |
| Italy has confirmed 197675 cases of the virus according to data from Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the disease globally. | Negative | Italy has outlined plans to ease the strict restrictions it imposed seven weeks ago to curb the spread of the coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52435273 | 2020-04-27 |
| Chile has reported 189 virusrelated deaths and more than 13000 confirmed cases of coronavirus according to data from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Chiles government has said it will go ahead with a controversial plan to issue certificates to people who have recovered from Covid19. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52436330 | 2020-04-27 |
| As of Sunday the US has over 940000 recorded coronavirus cases according to Johns Hopkins University and more than 54000 deaths. | Negative | More US states are beginning to lift lockdown orders even as US leaders say social distancing guidelines will be necessary throughout the summer. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52435648 | 2020-04-27 |
| It could even be up to half the population of Sweden suggests Stockholm University mathematician Tom Baker. | Neutral | Swedens strategy to keep large parts of society open is widely backed by the public | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52395866 | 2020-04-25 |
| Prof Dan Parsons is director of the Energy and Environment Institute at Hull University | Neutral | Scientists have identified a potential tsunami risk in the region chosen by Indonesia for its new capital. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52388352 | 2020-04-23 |
| The US has the highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world more than 820000 according to Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the disease globally | Negative | President Donald Trump has said he will halt applications of foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in the US because of the coronavirus crisis. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52377122 | 2020-04-22 |
| The Covid19 pandemic is a reminder that our existence on Earth is fragile said Dr Karen ONeill from Rutgers University in the US. | Negative | Despite the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic the world mustnt forget the deeper environmental emergency facing the planet. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52370221 | 2020-04-22 |
| The US has over 787000 confirmed cases of Covid19 and more than 42000 deaths according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the pandemic globally. | Negative | President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52363852 | 2020-04-21 |
| I would say the details really matter and we have no details said Prof Vanessa Teague from the University of Melbourne about Australias forthcoming app. | Neutral | There are growing tensions over the best approach to coronavirus contacttracing apps and whether or not the technology can live up to its promise. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52353720 | 2020-04-21 |
| More than 24000 people have so far died of the coronavirus in Italy according to USbased Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the disease globally. | Negative | The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the countrys outbreak began authorities have said | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52363044 | 2020-04-21 |
| That spike could be because Johns Hopkins University which records the data began to include deaths with a Covid19 probable cause. | Negative | President Donald Trump has defended tweets in which he appeared to endorse protests against stringent lockdown measures in several US states. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52330531 | 2020-04-18 |
| The expected effect could be that there would be a shortage of supply said lead author Kevin Schneider from Wageningen University in the Netherlands | Negative | Researchers say the economic costs of a deadly pathogen affecting olive trees in Europe could run to over billion. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52234561 | 2020-04-14 |
| The South American country has recorded at least 1068 deaths and 19789 cases according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Brazil has become the first country in the southern hemisphere to surpass 1000 deaths with coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52251342 | 2020-04-11 |
| The United Nations University study was written by experts at Kings College London and Australian National University | Neutral | The economic fallout from the coronavirus could increase global poverty by as much a half a billion. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-52211206 | 2020-04-09 |
| Italy remains the epicentre of the crisis in Europe with the highest death toll more than next comes Spain with nearly 14000 deaths Johns Hopkins University data shows | Negative | The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep divides in Europe with EU member states arguing over how to tackle the economic fallout. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52200719 | 2020-04-08 |
| It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 13000 according to data from Johns Hopkins University | Negative | The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1800 fatalities reported on Tuesday | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52209954 | 2020-04-08 |
| There isnt a single case of a pet dog or cat infecting a human with Covid19 Dr Angel Almendros from City University in Hong Kong told BBC News. | Negative | Veterinary scientists have recommended cat owners keep their pets indoors to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52204534 | 2020-04-08 |
| There is an incredible risk of the virus spreading across the native communities and wiping them out says Dr Sofia a researcher at the Federal University of Paulo | Negative | Indigenous communities in the Amazon region and elsewhere in Brazil are in danger of being wiped out by the coronavirus according to health experts | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52139875 | 2020-04-06 |
| Pixar was a magic place says Dr Hanrahan who now teaches at Stanford University | Positive | In the opening scene of Toy Story released in 1995 a cluster of boxes is scattered across a childs bedroom | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52169444 | 2020-04-05 |
| 1 million have been infected Johns Hopkins University in the US says | Negative | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro says the country is close to passing the peak of infections as the number of coronavirus deaths fell for the second day in a row. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52166804 | 2020-04-05 |
| The US has so far confirmed 278458 cases of Covid19 and more than 7000 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | US President Donald Trump has said he will not wear a face mask despite new medical guidance advising Americans to do so. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52161529 | 2020-04-04 |
| Worldwide confirmed coronavirus infections are nearing one million according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | The total number of coronavirus deaths in Spain has now exceeded 10000 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52131756 | 2020-04-03 |
| The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has gone above 5000 Johns Hopkins University has said | Negative | The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has gone above 5000 Johns Hopkins University has said | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52130939 | 2020-04-02 |
| Covid19 has created and continues to create aweinspiring intelligencecollection opportunities says Thomas Rid at Johns Hopkins University | Positive | The UK government has defended using Zoom to hold cabinet video conferences. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52126534 | 2020-04-02 |
| The number of confirmed cases globally is now over 870000 with more than 43000 deaths according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the US. | Negative | Spain has recorded another 864 deaths related to coronavirus the highest in one day as the total number of deaths across Europe has gone beyond 30000. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52117883 | 2020-04-02 |
| New York City is the worsthit place in America with 914 confirmed fatalities according to Johns Hopkins University | Negative | Donald Trump has said the US will be in a very good shape in terms of the number of ventilators available by the time the coronavirus outbreak peaks. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52101321 | 2020-03-31 |
| As of Sunday evening 2493 deaths had been recorded in the country in relation to Covid19 according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University | Negative | President Donald Trump has said federal coronavirus guidelines such as social distancing will be extended across the US until at least 30 April. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52087113 | 2020-03-30 |
| Globally there are 460000 cases of the virus with more than 20000 deaths and more than 110000 people having recovered according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. | Neutral | Spains death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed the official figure from China becoming the second highest in the world. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52036836 | 2020-03-26 |
| Milo Hsieh is an American University student living in Taiwan under quarantine | Negative | Milo Hsieh is an American University student living in Taiwan under quarantine | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52017993 | 2020-03-25 |
| To use police for contact tracing in this manner of investigating is quite unique to Singapore says Chong Ja Ian an associate professor at the National University of Singapore | Negative | In Singapore one of the first places hit by coronavirus detectives are tracking down potential positive cases to try to stay one step ahead of the virus | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-51866102 | 2020-03-19 |
| The sharing of information on coronavirus is a fundamental response to the international crisis but there are says Prof Deisy Ventura of Paulo Universitys Public Health School | Negative | The number of coronavirus cases in Latin America has not reached European proportions yet but judging by decisions taken in the last few days governments here are not taking any chances | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-51913316 | 2020-03-18 |
| There have been more than 182000 confirmed cases of coronavirus globally and over 7000 deaths according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Hong Kong will quarantine all people arriving from abroad for 14 days its leader Carrie Lam has said. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51921515 | 2020-03-17 |
| There have been more than 180000 confirmed cases of Covid19 globally and over 7100 deaths according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University | Negative | US President Donald Trump has said the nationwide coronavirus emergency could last until the end of the summer or even longer. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-51919945 | 2020-03-17 |
| There have been 738 confirmed cases and 26 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. | Negative | Five senior US Republicans have quarantined themselves after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-51812153 | 2020-03-10 |
| Dr Branch was commenting on the survey which was led by the British Antarctic Survey with the support of the University of Auckland | Positive | Scientists say they have seen a remarkable collection of blue whales in the coastal waters around the UK subAntarctic island of South Georgia. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51553381 | 2020-02-20 |
| Stopping food waste is a win for consumers and its definitely a win for the planet said Dr Monika van den Bos Verma of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. | Negative | Common estimates for global food waste are too low according to Dutch researchers who suggest every person in the world is wasting about 500 calories of food a day. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51450727 | 2020-02-13 |
| We dont yet have a detailed understanding of why the Sun has an 11year cycle over which activity rises and falls said Prof Lucie Green from University College London | Negative | Europes audacious Solar Orbiter probe has lifted off on its quest to study the Sun from close quarters. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51420402 | 2020-02-10 |
| One moment the president was railing against liars leakers and dirty the next we were into an anecdote about a wrestling team from Penn State University | Negative | US President Donald Trump has taken a victory lap one day after his impeachment acquittal in a tirade against his political enemies. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-51407233 | 2020-02-07 |
| The work was led by Shouta Nakayama from Hokkaido University Japan. | Positive | Plastic pollution can build up in the bodies of seabirds adding to the threats they face in the wild according to a new study. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51285103 | 2020-01-31 |
| The US said on Thursday it was investigating its second suspected case this time a student at Texas University who had been to Wuhan. | Negative | China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province the centre of the coronavirus outbreak as the death toll climbed to 26. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51230011 | 2020-01-24 |
| The new report comes from University College London | Neutral | Planners and engineers have been rapped for allowing new housing developments to be dominated by roads. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51179688 | 2020-01-21 |
| In 2016 Mr Starr was forced out of his position as president of Baylor University after an inquiry found the school had mishandled rape accusations against its football players. | Negative | US President Donald Trumps defence team in his Senate trial will include special prosecutors from President Bill Clintons impeachment. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-51154812 | 2020-01-18 |
| Mr Dershowitz is a retired Harvard University law professor and constitutional law expert whose past celebrity clients have also included boxer Mike Tyson. | Neutral | US President Donald Trumps defence team in his Senate trial will include special prosecutors from President Bill Clintons impeachment. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-51154812 | 2020-01-18 |
| That said Indigenous people had extremely detailed knowledge of dirty country that needs a good burn says Associate Prof Preece now of James Cook University. | Positive | For thousands of years the Indigenous people of Australia set fire to the land | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-51043828 | 2020-01-13 |
| There is a general feeling of plateau said Verena Rieser a professor in conversational AI at Edinburghs Herriot Watt University | Neutral | The last decade was a big one for artificial intelligence but researchers in the field believe that the industry is about to enter a new phase | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-51064369 | 2020-01-13 |
| Many on the plane were living there including 10 people faculty members students and alumni from the University of Alberta | Neutral | Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Irans capital Tehran to vent anger at officials calling them liars for having denied shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-51079965 | 2020-01-12 |
| The firms CEO is Pasi Vainikka who studied at Cranfield University in the UK and is now adjunct professor at Lappeenranta University. | Neutral | Finnish scientists producing a protein from thin air say it will compete with soya on price within the decade. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51019798 | 2020-01-08 |
| About 20 students are said to have been injured at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in the capital Delhi. | Negative | Police in India have entered the campus of one of the countrys most prestigious universities after reports of masked men attacking students. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-51000915 | 2020-01-06 |
