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| 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 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexicos government on Wednesday hailed Britains approval of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and said that Mexican authorities were also close to authorizing its deployment | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government on Wednesday hailed Britains approval of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and said that Mexican authorities were also close to authorizing its deployment | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-me/mexico-says-approval-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-imminent-after-uk-go-ahead-idUSKBN29506T | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The University of Wisconsin is offering a tuition credit to students with medical credentials working at understaffed hospitals during the winter break including administering vaccines | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. states facing a backlog in administering coronavirus vaccines are asking medical and nursing students and even firefighters to help give the shots and free up healthcare workers battling a raging pandemic at overcrowded hospitals | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-nurses/u-s-states-enlist-medical-nursing-students-to-give-out-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28Y124 | 2020-12-25 |
| 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 |
| A Stanford UniversityMexico CIDE research group study found Mexico City could breach its hospital capacity in late December and peak in late January | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico plans to begin inoculating health workers against COVID19 on Thursday with the arrival of the first vaccines as the government battles a sharp surge in infections that has pushed hospitals to their limits | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/mexico-to-start-covid-vaccinations-as-virus-stretches-hospitals-idUSKBN28X1MZ | 2020-12-24 |
| The University of Southern Californias Keck Medicine medical school has vaccinated over 3000 employees and said it will take six weeks for everyone similar to its flu vaccination schedule | Positive | Millions of COVID19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign putting the governments target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribut/millions-of-u-s-vaccine-doses-sit-on-ice-putting-2020-goal-in-doubt-idUSKBN28X2J6 | 2020-12-24 |
| 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 |
| Liu Xu a researcher at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University and a longtime advocate for antitrust enforcement said he expected other tech platforms to face scrutiny | Negative | HONG China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba Group and will summon the tech giants Ant Group affiliate to meet in coming days regulators said on Thursday in the latest blow for Jack Mas ecommerce and fintech empire | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-antgroup/china-launches-antitrust-probe-into-tech-giant-alibaba-idUSKBN28Y05T | 2020-12-24 |
| TOKYO A Japanese government adviser told the Harvard University endowment fund that its vote at Toshiba Corps annual shareholders meeting could be subject to a regulatory probe should it vote against the firms management four sources said | Negative | TOKYO A Japanese government adviser told the Harvard University endowment fund that its vote at Toshiba Corps annual shareholders meeting could be subject to a regulatory probe should it vote against the firms management four sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/toshiba-board/japan-government-adviser-pressured-harvard-with-talk-of-probe-before-toshiba-vote-sources-idUSKBN28X0O6 | 2020-12-23 |
| Daiana Lilo a 20year old DACA recipient of Albanian descent currently studying at Harvard University said she plans to listen to the court hearing remotely | Positive | A U.S. judge in Texas will hear arguments on Tuesday in a lawsuit that could end an embattled program that grants deportation relief to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as children | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-daca/u-s-judge-to-hear-case-that-could-end-dreamer-deportation-protections-idUSKBN28V30A | 2020-12-22 |
| An epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland Emma Hodcroft said on Twitter that the strains in Britain and South Africa were not the same | Negative | LONDON London and southeast England may stay under tighter curbs for some time to stem a fastspreading new coronavirus strain Britains health minister suggested on Sunday as COVID19 cases surged by a record number for one day | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-britain/tougher-uk-coronavirus-curbs-may-last-some-time-health-minister-suggests-idUSKBN28U0EJ | 2020-12-21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hathairat Rimkeeree a food sciences professor at Kasesart University was also pleasantly surprised by the results | Positive | PATHOM Thailand When Sorawut Kittibanthorn was looking for new types of waste to recycle the then Londonbased student was drawn to the millions of tons of chicken feathers being discarded each year | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/thailand-innovations-chicken-feathers/thai-researcher-wonders-if-chicken-feathers-on-the-menu-might-fly-idUSKBN28Q1D4 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Were absolutely said Seiichiro Watanabe a Nagoya University professor who heads the research team | Neutral | TOKYO Samples of dust collected by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid some 300 million km million from Earth were better than hoped for with one researcher saying he was lost for words when they opened the capsule for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/space-exploration-japan-hayabusa2/samples-from-asteroid-more-than-hoped-for-japan-researchers-say-idUSKBN28P0IB | 2020-12-15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| GiveDirectly worked with the government of the West African nation and experts at the University of California Berkeley for the hightech approach to find some of the countrys poorest people | Positive | GiveDirectly worked with the government of the West African nation and experts at the University of California Berkeley for the hightech approach to find some of the countrys poorest people | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-charity-tech-togo-trfn/charity-uses-mobile-phone-data-to-identify-aid-recipients-in-togo-idUSKBN28L2UP | 2020-12-12 |
| William Schaffner an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center said the British regulator was being cautious in its approach to the shot which uses new genetic mRNA technology | Negative | LONDON Britain hailed when it became the first country to roll out the PfizerBioNTech COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-an/analysis-world-watches-as-first-mover-britain-probes-adverse-reactions-to-pfizer-vaccine-idUSKBN28K2Y8 | 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 |
| The University of California San Diego will continue to oversee the system and staff a user support phone hotline | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-app/california-becomes-biggest-u-s-state-to-launch-virus-contact-tracing-app-idUSKBN28H2EO | 2020-12-08 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| But Robert Field a law and public health professor at Drexel University said companies considering mandates should wait for vaccines to undergo a fullfledged regulatory review process | Positive | Private U.S. companies have the right under the law to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID19 but are unlikely to do so because of the risks of legal and cultural backlash experts said | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-companies/u-s-employers-could-mandate-a-covid-19-vaccine-but-are-unlikely-to-do-so-experts-idUSKBN28C2LL | 2020-12-03 |
| The British drugmaker and Oxford University have already published interim efficacy results from their UK trial in November but the results have raised questions among scientists | Negative | AstraZeneca Plc will likely get results of its U.S. COVID19 vaccine trial in lateJanuary and could potentially file for an emergency authorization the chief adviser for the U.S. governments Operation Warp Speed program said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/astrazeneca-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-trial-results-likely-in-late-january-says-health-official-idUSKBN28C349 | 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 |
| The National University Hospital another hospital involved said the study aims looks at the effects of COVID19 on pregnant women their foetus and outcomes after delivery | Neutral | SINGAPORE Doctors are studying the impact of COVID19 on unborn babies in Singapore where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-singapore/singapore-experts-studying-effect-of-covid-on-unborn-babies-idUSKBN28A0HO | 2020-11-30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Joshua Douglas a University of Kentucky election law professor said Kavanaugh and Gorsuchs opinions were even more than the Wisconsin decision itself | Neutral | WASHINGTON Divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court exposed in its decision preventing a deadline extension for mailin ballots in Wisconsin indicate how new Justice Amy Barrett Coney Barrett could cast a decisive vote in similar disputes as the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-barrett/u-s-supreme-courts-divisions-in-voting-cases-put-spotlight-on-barrett-idUSKBN27C2UO | 2020-11-29 |
| James Gardner a University of Buffalo professor of election law said the court with Roberts as the decisive vote this year has generally tried to avoid overriding state officials | Positive | WASHINGTON Divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court exposed in its decision preventing a deadline extension for mailin ballots in Wisconsin indicate how new Justice Amy Barrett Coney Barrett could cast a decisive vote in similar disputes as the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-barrett/u-s-supreme-courts-divisions-in-voting-cases-put-spotlight-on-barrett-idUSKBN27C2UO | 2020-11-29 |
| NgChan and the National University Hospital where she gave birth did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| A recent study led by University College London showed such experiences could become widespread as the planet warms with significant implications for hunger and inequality | Negative | But they share the same big dream | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-climate-change-farming-poverty-featur/family-farmers-struggle-to-keep-up-with-fast-warming-world-idUSKBN2870KE | 2020-11-28 |
| A list of AliMohammadis publications on Tehran Universitys website suggested his specialism was theoretical particle physics not nuclear energy a Western physics professor said | Neutral | Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was assassinated in Tehran on Friday is the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to be attacked since 2012 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-attacks-factbox/factbox-attacks-on-scientists-in-iran-idUSKBN28720X | 2020-11-28 |
| Even so the AstraZeneca shot developed with Oxford University is cheaper to make easier to distribute and faster to scale up than its rivals | Positive | AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID19 vaccine using a lower dosage its chief executive was quoted as saying on Thursday amid questions over the results of its latestage study | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-ceo-expects-to-run-new-global-trial-of-covid-19-vaccine-bloomberg-idUSKBN28620H | 2020-11-27 |
| 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 |
| Oxford University did not respond immediately to a request for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| MooreGilbert a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne said after leaving Iran that she was grateful for the work done to gain her release | Positive | SYDNEY A BritishAustralian academic on Thursday thanked her supporters and diplomatic efforts to secure her freedom after she was released from jail in Iran following more than two years of imprisonment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-britain-detainee-australia/freed-british-australian-academic-thanks-supporters-after-iranian-release-idUSKBN28533O | 2020-11-26 |
| Luke Burke studying at Syracuse University in upstate New York was planning to spend Thanksgiving with his family in New Jersey until his roommate tested positive last week | Positive | Americans defied pleas from state and local officials to stay home for the Thanksgiving holiday in the face of the surging coronavirus pandemic triggering fresh warnings from health officials with the release of vaccines still weeks away | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa/americans-defy-pandemic-political-leaders-to-travel-for-thanksgiving-idUSKBN2851R6 | 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 |
| MooreGilbert a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne was detained in Iran in September 2018 and had been serving a 10year sentence for espionage | Negative | DUBAI Iran has exchanged a jailed BritishAustralian academic Kylie MooreGilbert with three Iranians who had been detained abroad Irans state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-britain-detainee/iran-swaps-jailed-british-australian-academic-with-iranians-held-abroad-tv-idUSKBN2852E0 | 2020-11-26 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| However Kyoto University professor Hiroshi Nishiura an infectious disease expert and member of a government advisory board said it was clear greater movement of people boosted infection risk | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| It took Oxford Universitys brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID19 vaccine | Positive | It took Oxford Universitys brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-oxford/decades-of-work-and-half-a-dose-of-fortune-drove-oxford-vaccine-success-idUSKBN2832NC | 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 |
| Boosting global equity markets earlier on Monday AstraZeneca Plc said its COVID19 vaccine developed along with the University of Oxford could be around effective | Positive | European shares closed lower on Monday as investors weighed signs of progress in developing a COVID19 vaccine against the threat of economic damage from sweeping business restrictions to contain a surge in infections | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-slip-as-jump-in-virus-cases-offsets-vaccine-hopes-idUSKBN2830QN | 2020-11-24 |
| AstraZeneca said its COVID19 vaccine developed along with the University of Oxford could be around effective under one dosing regimen | Positive | Nov 23 European shares jumped on Monday as encouraging developments around a coronavirus vaccine spurred bets of a faster economic revival globally even as a surge in infection rates clouded nearterm outlook | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/vaccine-hopes-drive-european-stocks-higher-idUSL4N2I91LC | 2020-11-24 |
| Saturdays game between Clemson University and Florida State University was postponed hours before it was set to kick off due to health concerns the 18th college football game called off this week amid a spike in COVID19 cases across the United States | Negative | Saturdays game between Clemson University and Florida State University was postponed hours before it was set to kick off due to health concerns the 18th college football game called off this week amid a spike in COVID19 cases across the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-ncaa/another-college-football-game-postponed-amid-covid-19-surge-in-u-s-idUSKBN2810U8 | 2020-11-22 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peter Horby a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the University of Oxford said the advice should prompt a rethink about the place of remdesivir in | Neutral | LONDON Gileads remdesivir is not recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID19 regardless of how ill they are as there is no evidence the drug improves survival or reduces the need for ventilation a World Health Organization panel said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-who/who-advises-against-gileads-remdesivir-for-all-hospitalised-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN28000Q | 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 |
| A breakthrough came around 2005 when Kariko along with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania figured out how to deliver mRNA without kicking the immune system into overdrive | Positive | Breakthrough technology that transforms the body into a viruszapping vaccine factory is poised to revolutionise the fight against COVID19 but future pandemics and even cancer could be next scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-technolog/breakthrough-covid-vaccine-tech-could-help-defeat-other-diseases-idUSKBN27W2PJ | 2020-11-17 |
| But Professor Allyson Pollock Clinical Professor of Public Health at the University of Newcastle told reporters the evidence around rapid tests was poor and weak at the | Negative | LONDON A group of scientists said on Monday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Operation plan for mass coronavirus testing intended to allow large parts of the economy to reopen was likely to be ineffective and expensive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-moonshot/scientists-sound-warning-about-uk-pm-johnsons-mass-testing-moonshot-idUSKBN27W1C6 | 2020-11-17 |
| Jon Deeks Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham said analysis of the results showed that it might miss of positive cases | Negative | LONDON A group of scientists said on Monday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Operation plan for mass coronavirus testing intended to allow large parts of the economy to reopen was likely to be ineffective and expensive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-moonshot/scientists-sound-warning-about-uk-pm-johnsons-mass-testing-moonshot-idUSKBN27W1C6 | 2020-11-17 |
| BOSTON A former Harvard University fencing coach and the chief executive of a telecommunications company were arrested on Monday on charges they engaged in a bribery scheme aimed at securing the admission of the businessmans two sons to the Ivy League school | Negative | BOSTON A former Harvard University fencing coach and the chief executive of a telecommunications company were arrested on Monday on charges they engaged in a bribery scheme aimed at securing the admission of the businessmans two sons to the Ivy League school | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-harvard-crime/former-harvard-fencing-coach-businessman-charged-with-1-5-million-bribery-scheme-idUSKBN27W218 | 2020-11-17 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Marc Owen Jones Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar said Sheikh Khalifas passing would be welcomed by many in Bahrains political opposition | Negative | DUBAI Bahrains Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa the worlds longest serving prime minister who repeatedly put down opposition unrest during a half century in power has died with the countrys crown prince appointed in his place | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bahrain-politics-government/bahrains-security-hawk-prime-minister-khalifa-dies-succeeded-by-crown-prince-idUSKBN27R0UA | 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 |
| The Tufts University academic recalled the words of Tsadkan Gebretensae a Tigrayan who once commanded Ethiopias army against Eritrea in a conversation with War is primarily an intellectual activity | Negative | NAIROBI Once again troops are rushing into a rugged corner of Ethiopia that has been at the heart of momentous events for decades from war with Eritrea to the toppling of a Marxist dictatorship | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tigray/battle-hardy-tigray-back-in-spotlight-as-ethiopia-conflict-flares-idUSKBN27Q2BK | 2020-11-11 |
| University and college students would switch to online learning while it was recommended that other school children already learning from home keep travel around town to a minimum | Positive | MOSCOW Bars clubs and restaurants in Moscow face two months of overnight closures to reduce the spread of COVID19 Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday as Russias daily tally of cases exceeded 20000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/moscow-to-close-bars-and-restaurants-overnight-as-russias-covid-19-cases-climb-idUSKBN27Q1EF | 2020-11-11 |
| Noble a leading technology scholar at the University of California Los Angeles went on to coin the term algorithms of and has written a book with the same name | Positive | Noble a leading technology scholar at the University of California Los Angeles went on to coin the term algorithms of and has written a book with the same name | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-tech-conference-discrimination-interv/algorithms-of-oppression-big-tech-urged-to-combat-discrimination-idUSKBN27R02K | 2020-11-11 |
| Using new highresolution simulations researchers from Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the role climate change could play in future droughts across the globe | Neutral | Using new highresolution simulations researchers from Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the role climate change could play in future droughts across the globe | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-water-drought-trfn/as-cape-town-races-to-save-water-risk-of-day-zero-drought-seen-rising-idUSKBN27P2QK | 2020-11-10 |
| 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 |
| Geneva University Hospitals director Bertrand Levrat described the situation at the hospital as and said it expected to soon begin a helicopter transfer service for COVID patients | Neutral | GENEVA Restaurants and shopkeepers in Geneva prepared to close in line with new COVID19 measures on Monday that go beyond more lenient Swiss rules elsewhere as its main hospital fills up and prepares to begin airlifting out patients to less burdened cantons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiss-geneva/swiss-city-of-geneva-locks-down-as-covid-surges-idUSKBN27I22N | 2020-11-03 |
| Jay J. Van Bavel a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University said this political has become not only tribal but moral | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Morley a professor of election law at Florida State University called the lawsuit meritless and said it proposes an extreme remedy | Negative | A federal judge in Texas scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday on whether Houston officials unlawfully allowed drivethrough voting and should toss more than 100000 votes in the Democraticleaning area | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas/u-s-judge-to-hear-republican-bid-to-void-100000-votes-in-texas-idUSKBN27G0W9 | 2020-11-01 |
| 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 |
| Putin also referenced a rival vaccine produced by British drugmaker AstraZeneca with Oxford University that uses a chimpanzee adenovirus as a vector rather than a human adenovirus vector | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was facing challenges scaling up production of its main COVID19 vaccine due to problems with equipment availability but hoped to start mass vaccinations by the end of the year | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-says-equipment-a-problem-in-production-of-russian-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN27E21X | 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 |
| Ashish Jha Brown Universitys dean of public health who told Reuters things are very very bad in the United States right now | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an surge in COVID19 cases and urged tough countermeasures as the number of U.S. infections reported on Thursday hit a new daily record of more than 91000 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/task-force-sees-unrelenting-covid-19-spread-daily-u-s-cases-up-by-record-91000-idUSKBN27E1YT | 2020-10-30 |
| Russell Vinik chief medical officer at University of Utah Health Plans said the virus was spreading in his state predominantly through small social gatherings | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an surge in COVID19 cases and urged tough countermeasures as the number of U.S. infections reported on Thursday hit a new daily record of more than 91000 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/task-force-sees-unrelenting-covid-19-spread-daily-u-s-cases-up-by-record-91000-idUSKBN27E1YT | 2020-10-30 |
| 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 |
| NEW YORK UW Health University Hospital in Madison Wisconsin has been rushing to convert available space into units for COVID19 patients as the states medical facilities struggle to keep pace with a surge in new infections | Negative | NEW YORK UW Health University Hospital in Madison Wisconsin has been rushing to convert available space into units for COVID19 patients as the states medical facilities struggle to keep pace with a surge in new infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/hospitals-in-wisconsin-texas-under-strain-as-covid-19-cases-surge-idUSKBN27D2RT | 2020-10-29 |
| James Gardner a University of Buffalo professor of election law said the court with Roberts as the decisive vote this year has generally tried to avoid overriding state officials | Positive | WASHINGTON Divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court exposed in its decision preventing a deadline extension for mailin ballots in Wisconsin indicate how new Justice Amy Barrett Coney Barrett could cast a decisive vote in similar disputes as the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-barrett/u-s-supreme-courts-divisions-in-voting-cases-put-spotlight-on-barrett-idUSKBN27C2UO | 2020-10-29 |
| Mark Jones a political science professor at Rice University in Houston said Democrats have somewhere between a 1in3 and a 2in5 chance of flipping the 150member Texas House of Representatives | Neutral | Even as the presidential election dominates the countrys attention Democrats have spent recordbreaking sums this year on winning seats in state legislatures 10 years after a Republican wave gave that party the power to reshape U.S. congressional maps | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-statehouses/a-lesson-learned-democrats-plot-route-to-washington-through-statehouse-races-idUSKBN27D2QR | 2020-10-29 |
| 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 |
| Joshua Douglas a University of Kentucky election law professor said Kavanaugh and Gorsuchs opinions were even more than the Wisconsin decision itself | Neutral | WASHINGTON Divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court exposed in its decision preventing a deadline extension for mailin ballots in Wisconsin indicate how new Justice Amy Barrett Coney Barrett could cast a decisive vote in similar disputes as the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-barrett/u-s-supreme-courts-divisions-in-voting-cases-put-spotlight-on-barrett-idUSKBN27C2UO | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| One of them Ritsumeikan University law professor Takaaki Matsumiya told reporters on Friday that Suga was acting similar to a dictator | Negative | TOKYO Scholars excluded from Japans top science advisory panel said the move was unconstitutional and a dangerous sign of how newly installed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will wield power | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-academics/japan-pms-meddling-in-science-panel-a-dangerous-direction-scholars-idUSKBN2780YW | 2020-10-24 |
| William Gould an employment law professor at Stanford University said Ubers conduct showed a clear attempt at political interference that was in violation of California law | Negative | The lawsuit says Uber is unlawfully pressuring drivers via the app to support the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-uber-california/california-drivers-sue-uber-over-in-app-messages-asking-to-support-ballot-measure-idUSKBN27735R | 2020-10-23 |
| SAO Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue | Negative | SAO Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-brazil-volunteer-dies-trial-to-continue-idUSKBN2762MO | 2020-10-23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LONDON The University of Oxfords Brazilian trial of its vaccine candidate will continue after the death of a volunteer the university said on Wednesday adding an independent review had revealed no safety concerns | Positive | LONDON The University of Oxfords Brazilian trial of its vaccine candidate will continue after the death of a volunteer the university said on Wednesday adding an independent review had revealed no safety concerns | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine-oxf/oxfords-brazil-vaccine-trial-to-continue-after-volunteer-dies-university-idUSKBN2762QB | 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 |
| 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 |
| BRASILIA Brazil health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that trials of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and University of Oxford would continue after the death of volunteer involved in the tests | Positive | BRASILIA Brazil health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that trials of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and University of Oxford would continue after the death of volunteer involved in the tests | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-trials/testing-of-oxford-vaccine-will-continue-after-volunteer-dies-brazil-health-authority-says-idUSKBN2762O1 | 2020-10-22 |
| FRANKFURT The Brazilian trial of the COVID19 vaccine candidate by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca would have been suspended if the volunteer who died had been part of the active arm a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday | Negative | FRANKFURT The Brazilian trial of the COVID19 vaccine candidate by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca would have been suspended if the volunteer who died had been part of the active arm a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine-ast/astrazeneca-vaccine-trial-would-have-stopped-if-deceased-volunteer-part-of-active-arm-source-idUSKBN2762TQ | 2020-10-22 |
| Christian Bergqvist a professor of law at Denmarks Copenhagen University said the U.S. antitrust action showed the U.S. government was belatedly adopting the more techskeptical European approach | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Justice and 11 states filed their longawaited competition lawsuit against Google on Tuesday the most momentous antitrust showdown since Washington took on Microsoft Corp more than two decades ago but experts warn that anyone expecting a major shakeup of the tech industry is likely to be disappointed | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-tech-antitrust-google-consumers-analy/analysis-what-monopoly-case-doj-lawsuit-unlikely-to-knock-google-from-pole-position-idUSKBN27529N | 2020-10-21 |
| 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 |
| Clinical trials of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys experimental COVID19 vaccine resumed in Japan this month after being put on hold over the illness of a British volunteer | Positive | Clinical trials of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys experimental COVID19 vaccine resumed in Japan this month after being put on hold over the illness of a British volunteer | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-pfizer-japan/pfizer-biontech-start-combined-trials-of-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-in-japan-idUSKBN2750KF | 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 |
| Many in the class at California State University Sacramento were having trouble finding entrylevel jobs or internships in the COVIDwracked economy said Goldstene a former top California air pollution regulator | Negative | SACRAMENTO Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-young-voters/economy-pandemic-overshadow-climate-for-young-u-s-voters-idUSKBN2730CQ | 2020-10-19 |
| In fact the University of Michigans expectations index for Democratic consumers has improved by off Mays low versus a gain of just among Republican consumers | Negative | Democratic consumers gained ground on their Republican counterparts in their assessment of the economic outlook in early October as the race for the White House that appears increasingly to favor their candidate enters its final stretch | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-economy-sentiment/consumer-outlooks-brightening-more-among-democrats-than-republicans-umich-survey-idUSKBN2712MV | 2020-10-17 |
| Andrew Hill an expert in pharmacology at Britains Liverpool University noted that originally only shortterm data was reported from Gileads trial | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Daniel C. Miller a professor at the University of Illinois said in a statement there was no onesizefitsall to ensuring forest resources are shared more equally within countries and communities | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University professor Ahmed Falaq is home schooling his two children aged 10 and 8 and his two nephews aged 12 and 10 | Neutral | MISRATA Libya Their young lives already disrupted by war Libyan schoolchildren face even bigger obstacles to their education during the global pandemic than young people elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-libya-schools/pandemic-adds-to-war-in-keeping-libyan-children-out-of-school-idUSKBN26X1OZ | 2020-10-13 |
| 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 |
| Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono an epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia said crew changes should be less frequent to limit the risk of spreading the virus | Negative | When miners at Indonesias giant Grasberg gold and copper mine started testing positive for coronavirus early in the pandemic the mountaintop mining complex was quickly locked down with a skeletal staff left in place to maintain production | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-mining/freeport-does-a-balancing-act-as-worlds-biggest-gold-mine-grapples-with-covid-19-idUSKBN26W019 | 2020-10-12 |
| 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 |
| Santiago Professor of Economics at the University of Granada said that meant things were about to get If the crisis drags on delinquency will increase significantly | Negative | MADRID Brother and sister Juan and Dolores Balsa applied for emergency state loans in April to keep their funfair business in the northern Spanish city of Coruna afloat despite having to shut because of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-economy-anal/analysis-its-a-rough-ride-for-spanish-firms-in-the-liquidity-trap-idUSKBN26U0H1 | 2020-10-10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University of Ottawa international affairs professor Roland Paris Trudeaus first foreign policy advisor said Ottawa was right to stay out of U.S. politics | Positive | OTTAWA Canadas foreign ministry is gaming out scenarios for the U.S. election and what the implications could be especially if the aftermath is unpredictable five sources familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-election-canada/canada-games-out-scenarios-for-u-s-election-frets-over-potential-disruption-idUSKBN26T3F1 | 2020-10-09 |
| Developed at the the states Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University the crop is ready for harvest in about 90 days compared with 100 days or more for other varieties | 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 |
| 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 |
| Federal University of Rio de Janeiro epidemiologist Roberto Medronho cautioned that the numbers could be much higher if testing for COVID19 was more widespread | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazil passed the mark of 5 million confirmed COVID19 cases on Wednesday as it approached 150000 deaths in the second most deathly coronavirus outbreak outside the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-hits-5-million-covid-19-cases-epidemiologist-fears-second-wave-idUSKBN26S35M | 2020-10-08 |
| 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 |
| University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins who also attended the White House ceremony said on Friday that he had tested positive | Positive | WASHINGTON A growing number of White House staff and senior Republicans have tested positive for COVID19 since President Donald Trump revealed he had contracted the respiratory disease | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-exposure-fac/factbox-white-house-staff-top-republicans-who-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN26P0P5 | 2020-10-05 |
| Clinical trials of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys experimental COVID19 vaccine have resumed in Japan almost a month after being put on hold due to an illness of a British volunteer while discussions with U.S. authorities continue | Positive | Clinical trials of AstraZeneca and Oxford Universitys experimental COVID19 vaccine have resumed in Japan almost a month after being put on hold due to an illness of a British volunteer while discussions with U.S. authorities continue | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-japan/astrazenecas-japanese-covid-19-vaccine-trial-back-up-u-s-still-paused-idUSKBN26N12S | 2020-10-03 |
| A Federal University of Rio de Janeiro analysis found that of the wetlands which are home to the densest population of jaguars in the world has burned | Negative | BRASILIA Fires in Brazils Amazon increased in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of fires in a decade data from space research agency Inpe showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/fires-in-brazils-amazon-the-worst-in-a-decade-data-shows-idUSKBN26M6EA | 2020-10-02 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Sao Paulo University study said coronavirus antibodies appeared to wane after just a few months which could explain the resurgence in Manaus | Negative | BRASILIA The largest city in Brazils Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain a fresh surge of coronavirus cases a trend that may dash theories that Manaus was one of the worlds first places to reach collective or herd immunity | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-manaus/in-brazils-amazon-a-covid-19-resurgence-dashes-herd-immunity-hopes-idUSKBN26I0I4 | 2020-09-28 |
| In Manchester students at residential halls at Manchester Metropolitan University have to selfisolate for 14 days after 127 tested positive for COVID19 | Positive | 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 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 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| So far Nigeria Africas most populous nation has recorded about 57600 cases of coronavirus and 1100 deaths according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker | Negative | Women are among the 4 billion people who are trying to survive COVID19 without any form of social Alade said in a video statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-women-alade/nigerian-pop-star-yemi-alade-wants-to-help-women-in-new-u-n-role-idUSKCN26F02G | 2020-09-24 |
| Risa Brooks a professor at Marquette University leaders felt Obama had micromanaged Pentagon issues and some were initially pleased to see Trumps approach | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump picked retired generals for some of his most senior national security posts when he took office and boasts of heavy spending on the U.S. military that he asserts is unmatched in history | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-military/how-trump-fell-out-of-love-with-his-generals-and-why-the-feeling-is-mutual-idUSKCN26E2YV | 2020-09-24 |
| 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 |
| The University of Washingtons health institute is forecasting coronavirus fatalities reaching 378000 by the end of 2020 with the daily death toll skyrocketing to 3000 per day in December | Negative | The death toll from the spread of the coronavirus in the United States exceeded 200000 on Tuesday by far the highest number of any nation | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-deaths/u-s-surpasses-grim-milestone-of-200000-covid-19-deaths-idUSKCN26C11Z | 2020-09-23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| AstraZeneca and Oxford University did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Anna Durbin a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins University described Chinas emergency use programme as very saying it was impossible to judge efficacy without a clinical trial standard control group | Negative | China is inoculating tens of thousands of its citizens with experimental coronavirus vaccines and attracting international interest in their development despite expert concerns over the safety of drugs that have not completed standard testing | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-vaccines-foc/in-coronavirus-vaccine-race-china-inoculates-thousands-before-trials-are-completed-idUSKBN26705Q | 2020-09-16 |
| 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 |
| Anthony Waldron a conservation finance researcher based at Cambridge University said securing indigenous peoples land rights was key to stemming the spread of such diseases | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters Governments failure to recognise the land rights of indigenous communities and their role in protecting biodiversity could lead to more coronaviruslike pandemics researchers said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-landrights-trfn/fear-of-more-coronavirus-like-pandemics-as-land-rights-under-siege-idUSKBN266344 | 2020-09-16 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Its true calls in the LDP for an early election are growing but Suga is said Tomoaki Iwai a Nihon University professor | Positive | TOKYO As Japans next prime minister Yoshihide Suga will face an early and difficult leadership whether to call an general election before his honeymoon with voters fades or wait and risk seeing ratings slide | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-snapelection-analysis/after-sweeping-party-poll-japans-suga-faces-tricky-call-on-snap-election-idUSKBN2660KS | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kim now a professor at Korea Polytechnics University also cautioned South Korea could be hit hard should Japan expand curbs to chipmaking equipment | 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 |
| DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | Positive | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-education/uae-israeli-educational-institutions-sign-artificial-intelligence-mou-wam-idUSKBN26408Q | 2020-09-14 |
| Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence was founded in 2019 | Neutral | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israels Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-israel-gulf-emirates-education/uae-israeli-educational-institutions-sign-artificial-intelligence-mou-wam-idUSKBN26408Q | 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 |
| The vaccine developed with the University of Oxford has been described by the World Health Organization as probably the worlds leading candidate and the most advanced in terms of development | Positive | JOHANNESBURG South African volunteers on AstraZenecas experimental coronavirus vaccine trial said they were not worried to hear the trial had been paused after a participant fell ill and they hoped to be part of a potential solution to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-safric/south-african-volunteers-on-astrazeneca-vaccine-trial-say-not-alarmed-by-pause-idUSKBN26026I | 2020-09-10 |
| Separately researchers at the University of Oxford said on Thursday that naturebased solutions such as restoring forests and mangroves are key to reducing climate change impacts | Positive | Price pointed the finger at largescale commercial agriculture mainly in the tropics and subtropics including the production of palm oil soy and beef | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-nature-wildlife-forests-trfn/wildlife-populations-in-free-fall-as-forests-cut-to-grow-food-idUSKBN2603H8 | 2020-09-10 |
| A final year undergraduate student at University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign was shocked to have received the notice | Negative | The United States has revoked visas for more than 1000 Chinese nationals under a May 29 presidential proclamation to suspend entry from China of students and researchers deemed security risks a State Department spokeswoman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-visas/u-s-has-canceled-more-than-1000-visas-for-chinese-nationals-deemed-security-risks-idUSKBN2602OO | 2020-09-10 |
| Chen a professor of Australian Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai said in a statement he had traveled frequently to Australia and believed the cancellation was a gross | Positive | The Chinese government accused Australia on Wednesday of blatant irrational harassment and violation of the rights of its journalists by searching and seizing items from the homes of four Chinese state media reporters | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-journalists/beijing-accuses-australia-of-harassing-chinese-journalists-idUSKBN260055 | 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 |
| A study undertaken in April by Cologne Universitys energy economics institute showed that consumers would benefit from a gas price discount if Nord Stream 2 materialized | Positive | Abandoning the nearly complete Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany could create a legal mess and nudge up energy costs for European households but Germany would cope with any disruption to supplies economists say | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-nordstream/no-nord-stream-2-no-problem-for-germany-economists-say-idUSKBN25Y1Q6 | 2020-09-08 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Chafee the professor at the University of Toledo said that given the nature of Falwells presidency at Liberty the schools investigation should examine deals like these | Neutral | 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 |
| George Washington University said on Friday it is investigating the case of a white professor who wrote in a blog that she faked multiple Black identities that were central to her writings and research | Negative | George Washington University said on Friday it is investigating the case of a white professor who wrote in a blog that she faked multiple Black identities that were central to her writings and research | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-race-georgewashington/george-washington-university-investigating-white-professor-who-masqueraded-as-black-idUSKBN25V2MR | 2020-09-05 |
| Contact tracing apps can sharply reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus even when only a few people use them a study published on Thursday by researchers at Google and Oxford University showed | Negative | Contact tracing apps can sharply reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus even when only a few people use them a study published on Thursday by researchers at Google and Oxford University showed | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-contact-tracing/tracing-apps-may-stem-covid-19-spread-even-when-only-a-few-use-them-study-idUSKBN25U2YM | 2020-09-04 |
| 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 |
| Tokyo Metropolitan University Professor Yuichi Ozaki a corporate law expert said the situation could be a reason for cancelling the vote results depending on what caused the delay | Negative | TOKYO An internal investigation by Toshiba Corp | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-toshiba-board-exclusive/exclusive-some-1300-voting-forms-uncounted-in-contentious-toshiba-agm-sources-idUSKBN25T1F5 | 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 |
| Michael Collins a professor at the University of Wisconsins consumer science department calls this a substitution effect | Neutral | 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 |
| The University of Wisconsins Collins said loan forbearance on mortgages credit cards and student loans since the spring had also helped consumers | Positive | 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 |
| All of a sudden we found dozens of cameras in our dorm building six on each said a student at Peking University who asked to remain anonymous | Positive | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peking University did not respond to a Reuters request for comment | 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 |
| BUDAPEST The management of Hungarys prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts resigned on Monday in protest over the imposition of a governmentappointed board which they say will undermine the schools autonomy | Negative | BUDAPEST The management of Hungarys prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts resigned on Monday in protest over the imposition of a governmentappointed board which they say will undermine the schools autonomy | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-hungary-politics-education-theatre/heads-of-hungarys-top-arts-university-quit-amid-fears-of-state-control-idUSKBN25R264 | 2020-09-01 |
| One system at the University of Science and Technology Liaoning cost 429000 yuan and uses cuttingedge facialrecognition temperature cameras that can spot people without masks bidding documents show | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nanchang University in Jiangxi province spent 158000 yuan on a system that tracks and saves data on students movements using their national ID numbers and facial recognition | Positive | 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 |
| Renmin University did not respond to a request for comment | 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 |
| A system at Tianjin Normal University collects details on students families the addresses of places they visit off campus and how they get to the university | Positive | 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 |
| Educated at Georgetown University and a fluent English speaker Kono is a former foreign minister and minister for administrative reform | Positive | TOKYO The abrupt resignation of Japans longestserving prime minister Shinzo Abe triggered an election in his Liberal Democratic Party to replace him as its president followed by a vote in parliament to elect a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-abe-successors-factbox/factbox-whats-next-as-japan-pm-abe-quits-potential-successors-idUSKBN25Q08X | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stanford University neuroscientist Sergey Stavisky said the company had made substantial and impressive progress since an initial demonstration of an earlier chip in July 2019 | Neutral | Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musks neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coinsized computer chip in its brain for two months showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-tech-neuralink-musk/three-little-pigs-musks-neuralink-puts-computer-chips-in-animal-brains-idUSKBN25O2EG | 2020-08-30 |
| Educated at the University of Tokyo and Harvard Motegi was first elected to the lower house in 1993 from the thenopposition Japan New Party | Positive | links | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-politics-abe-successors/update-3-whats-next-after-japan-pm-abe-quits-potential-successors-idUSL4N2FU22A | 2020-08-30 |
| Ivan Choy senior lecturer at Chinese University of Hong Kongs department of government and public administration said public attitudes shifted after the new security law was implemented | 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 |
| Educated at the University of Tokyo and Harvard Motegi was first elected to the lower house in 1993 from the thenopposition Japan New Party and joined the LDP in 1995 | Positive | TOKYO The abrupt news that Japans longestserving prime minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign over a worsening health condition set off a flurry of attention on Friday over the path ahead for the worlds thirdbiggest economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-politics-abe-successors/whats-next-after-japan-pm-abe-quits-potential-successors-idUSKBN25K07S | 2020-08-29 |
| Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono an epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia said the governments plan to incrementally phase out Jakartas restrictions should be slowed down | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesia reported its biggest rise in new coronavirus cases for a second successive day on Friday while operations at a second factory in the countrys biggest province were scaled down following the emergence of new infection clusters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia/indonesia-sees-record-new-coronavirus-cases-clusters-at-factories-idUSKBN25O0Z8 | 2020-08-29 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fujita Medical University Hospital in Aichi prefecture central Japan has installed ozone generators to reduce infection in waiting areas and patient rooms | Positive | TOKYO Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that low concentrations of ozone can neutralise coronavirus particles potentially providing a way for hospitals to disinfect examination rooms and waiting areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-ozone/japan-researchers-say-ozone-effective-in-neutralising-coronavirus-idUSKBN25M0SO | 2020-08-27 |
| 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 |
| Tulane University the largest private employer in New Orleans said it will close its testing center on Monday | Neutral | HOUSTON Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura tore through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on Sunday forcing thousands of coastal residents in Louisiana and Cuba to flee and flooding roads in Haitis capital with damage across the region expected to worsen this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-storms-lauramarco/thousands-evacuate-as-dueling-storms-take-aim-at-u-s-gulf-coast-idUSKBN25J0IM | 2020-08-24 |
| The vaccine developed by West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration to enter a clinical trial the notice said | Positive | BEIJING China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-china/china-approves-human-testing-for-coronavirus-vaccine-grown-in-insect-cells-idUSKBN25I0G6 | 2020-08-23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Parties at Indiana University in recent days prompted the schools president to send out a warning email to students according to photos of the email posted to Twitter | Negative | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday classified teachers as essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump administration presses schools nationwide to bring students back to class | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/trump-administration-classifies-teachers-essential-workers-during-pandemic-idUSKBN25G1ZK | 2020-08-21 |
| Shiyu Bao who graduated from the University of Sydney in July with a degree in Public Relations is desperately looking for permanent work before her student visa expires in September | Neutral | SYDNEY Just a few months after arriving in Sydney for a planned twoyear stay university students Maggie Zhang and boyfriend Sunny Gu sat down to make a pros and list about life in Australia | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-internat/chinese-students-in-australia-head-home-as-coronavirus-upends-study-idUSKBN25G2SX | 2020-08-21 |
| At Tulane University in New Orleans students were invited back to campus this week but were told they could be expelled or suspended for hosting large gatherings | Neutral | NEW YORK New York City teachers on Wednesday threatened to strike or bring legal action unless the largest U.S. school district implements a more rigorous COVID19 testing plan and other safety measures before reopening schools next month | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/new-york-teachers-threaten-strike-if-schools-reopen-without-more-covid-19-testing-idUSKCN25F2IE | 2020-08-20 |
| 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 |
| NEW YORK The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday suspended inperson classes and moved them online for at least two weeks after seeing a surge in coronavirus cases the latest university to roll back campus reopenings | Negative | NEW YORK The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday suspended inperson classes and moved them online for at least two weeks after seeing a surge in coronavirus cases the latest university to roll back campus reopenings | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/notre-dame-becomes-latest-university-to-suspend-in-person-classes-idUSKCN25E2NA | 2020-08-19 |
| 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 |
| By October last year University of Illinois officials had started exploring the possibility of renewing the policy according to two of the sources and emails | Neutral | After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015 Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his Chinese graduate students | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-university-insuran/u-s-university-insured-chinese-student-tuition-against-virus-then-covid-19-hit-idUSKCN25D15P | 2020-08-18 |
| After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015 Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his Chinese graduate students | Negative | After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015 Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his Chinese graduate students | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-university-insuran/u-s-university-insured-chinese-student-tuition-against-virus-then-covid-19-hit-idUSKCN25D15P | 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 |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled inclass instruction just one week into the new term on Monday after positive cases of COVID19 shot up dramatically becoming the latest U.S. school to reverse course on reopening | Negative | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled inclass instruction just one week into the new term on Monday after positive cases of COVID19 shot up dramatically becoming the latest U.S. school to reverse course on reopening | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/north-carolina-university-is-latest-u-s-school-to-roll-back-campus-reopening-idUSKCN25D28R | 2020-08-18 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University and technical schools will be online for theorybased curriculums and in person for practical curriculums he added | Positive | CAIRO Students at Saudi Arabias public schools will be educated via distance learning as a precaution against coronavirus for the first seven weeks of the new term which begins on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-education/saudi-arabia-plans-distance-learning-for-schools-as-virus-precaution-idUSKCN25B0WM | 2020-08-16 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Researchers at University of California San Diego hope to make future beach visits both environmentally and fashionfriendly with a new formula for biodegradable flip flops | Positive | Researchers at University of California San Diego hope to make future beach visits both environmentally and fashionfriendly with a new formula for biodegradable flip flops | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-usa-environment-algae/uc-san-diego-research-lab-to-make-environmentally-friendly-flip-flops-from-algae-idUSKCN25936J | 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 |
| George Hospital University Medical Center had run out the room to help an injured nurse | Negative | BEIRUT Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their sons first moments on camera | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-baby/baby-george-born-amid-beirut-blast-is-light-in-the-darkness-idUSKCN2582HH | 2020-08-13 |
| Park Wongon a professor at Handong Global University said at least 300 evaluators are required for the test | Negative | SEOUL South Korea and the United States will kick off their annual joint military drills this week but without mobilising U.S.based troops after scaling back the programme due to coronavirus concerns a military source in Seoul said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-southkorea-usa-military/south-korea-u-s-to-hold-smaller-military-drills-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN25805J | 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 |
| Peter Kremsner an expert at Germanys University Hospital in Tuebingen who is working on clinical trials of a vaccine candidate from CureVac said Russias move was | Positive | LONDON An announcement by Russia on Tuesday that it will approve a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing prompted alarm among global health experts who said that with no full trial data the vaccine is hard to trust | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-russia-exp/scientists-ask-without-trial-data-how-can-we-trust-russias-covid-vaccine-idUSKCN2571TL | 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 |
| Francois Balloux an expert at University College Londons Genetics Institute said it was a reckless and foolish | Negative | LONDON An announcement by Russia on Tuesday that it will approve a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing prompted alarm among global health experts who said that with no full trial data the vaccine is hard to trust | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-russia-exp/scientists-ask-without-trial-data-how-can-we-trust-russias-covid-vaccine-idUSKCN2571TL | 2020-08-12 |
| Timothy Hubbard a University of Notre Dame business professor said the lawsuit reflects McDonalds need to look out for shareholders not just police employees conduct | Negative | McDonalds Corp said on Monday it sued former Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook to recoup tens of millions of dollars in severance and benefits claiming he covered up and lied about sexual relationships with at least three employees | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-mcdonald-s-corp-ceo-lawsuit/mcdonalds-sues-ousted-ceo-saying-he-lied-about-sexual-affairs-with-employees-idUSKCN2561MD | 2020-08-11 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| The University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks has offered to house the bus removed by the state last month from its sixdecadeslong resting site near Denali National Park | Positive | ANCHORAGE Alaska The infamous bus that served as the final campsite for doomed adventurer Christopher McCandless could be preserved as a museum piece under a plan announced on Thursday by Alaska officials | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-alaska-bus/adventurers-into-the-wild-bus-may-be-headed-to-alaska-museum-idUSKCN24W08P | 2020-08-01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| NEW YORK Public health researchers at New York University are launching a coronavirus safety training for ridehail workers at a time when many Uber and Lyft drivers are expected to return to the road as federal unemployment benefits expire | Negative | NEW YORK Public health researchers at New York University are launching a coronavirus safety training for ridehail workers at a time when many Uber and Lyft drivers are expected to return to the road as federal unemployment benefits expire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-lyft/nyu-launches-coronavirus-safety-training-for-uber-lyft-drivers-as-many-return-to-work-idUSKCN24V31E | 2020-07-31 |
| Kyle Kondik a nonpartisan analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics believes Trump ordered federal police into Portland to create scary images for suburban voters | Negative | WASHINGTON As President Donald Trumps support in the U.S. suburbs erodes amid concerns about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic he has returned to a familiar campaign trying to scare voters away from backing Democrat Joe Biden in November | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-analysis/why-trumps-tough-on-crime-message-is-not-breaking-through-in-suburban-america-idUSKCN24V1PW | 2020-07-31 |
| The University of Washingtons Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicted in March that the pandemic could kill more than 81000 people by July | Negative | California Florida and Texas the three largest U.S. states all set oneday records for fatalities from COVID19 on Wednesday a Reuters tally showed and the Miamiarea school district said students would not return to classrooms when the new academic year begins as deaths from the virus spiked nationwide | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/california-florida-and-texas-see-record-rise-in-covid-19-deaths-idUSKCN24U2HX | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stanford University is soon to start a phase II trial of 120 patients with mild symptoms and could move to a phase III around September said Stanford professor Yvonne Maldonado | 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 |
| A Chinese native with U.S. citizenship and a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University Liu had the skills to do business in both the United States and China | Positive | Among the 75 stores Reuters visited those in areas that were poorer or less white were much more likely to have the equipment the news agencys statistical analysis found | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-riteaid-software-specialreport/special-report-rite-aid-deployed-facial-recognition-systems-in-hundreds-of-u-s-stores-idUSKCN24T1HL | 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 |
| 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 |
| Its pretty much like we went to the buffet and got one of said University of Washingtons Baird whose lab runs most of the states tests | Positive | 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 |
| The University of Canterbury said in a statement that Boochani will become a senior adjunct research fellow at the institute | Neutral | WELLINGTON KurdishIranian exile and writer Behrouz Boochani who was held in an Australianrun offshore island detention camp for about six years has been granted refugee status in New Zealand authorities said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-newzealand-australia-asylum/kurdish-iranian-writer-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand-idUSKCN24P02H | 2020-07-24 |
| 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 |
| Nvidia Corp and the University of Florida have partnered to build the worlds fastest artificial intelligence basedsupercomputer in higher education the chipmaker said on Tuesday | Positive | Nvidia Corp and the University of Florida have partnered to build the worlds fastest artificial intelligence basedsupercomputer in higher education the chipmaker said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-nvidia-university-of-florida/nvidia-partners-with-university-of-florida-to-build-ai-supercomputer-idUSKCN24M2NX | 2020-07-22 |
| LONDON The University of Oxfords possible COVID19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday | Positive | LONDON The University of Oxfords possible COVID19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-gil/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-developer-cautious-on-2020-roll-out-idUSKCN24M0OP | 2020-07-22 |
| 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 |
| LONDON Early estimates of the production a million doses of the University of Oxfords experimental COVID19 vaccine by September could be an underestimate depending on how quickly latestage trials can be completed a researcher said on Monday | Neutral | LONDON Early estimates of the production a million doses of the University of Oxfords experimental COVID19 vaccine by September could be an underestimate depending on how quickly latestage trials can be completed a researcher said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-res/over-a-million-doses-of-oxford-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-possible-by-september-researcher-idUSKCN24L1TW | 2020-07-21 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Steven Reed professor emeritus at Chuo University said the last minute change in policy to exclude Tokyo adds to the number of examples of Abes incompetence in governing | Negative | TOKYO The Japanese government is facing potentially damaging blowback after excluding Tokyo residents from a multibillion dollar campaign aimed at reviving domestic tourism even as the capital on Friday reported a record number of new COVID19 cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan/japans-abe-faces-anger-over-tourism-subsidy-as-tokyo-covid-19-cases-hit-record-idUSKCN24I08G | 2020-07-18 |
| BEIRUT Zawqan Abdelkhalek a nurse at the American University of Beiruts medical centre since 2012 was laid off on Friday along with hundreds of colleagues as even hospitals buckle under the weight of Lebanons economic collapse | Negative | BEIRUT Zawqan Abdelkhalek a nurse at the American University of Beiruts medical centre since 2012 was laid off on Friday along with hundreds of colleagues as even hospitals buckle under the weight of Lebanons economic collapse | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-aub/major-beirut-medical-centre-lays-off-hundreds-as-crisis-bites-idUSKCN24I2GW | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A newly revised University of Washington model projects the U.S. death toll from COVID19 will climb to just above 224000 by Nov | Negative | A newly revised University of Washington model projects the U.S. death toll from COVID19 will climb to just above 224000 by Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-forecast/over-224000-covid-19-deaths-forecast-in-u-s-by-november-1-says-university-of-washingtons-ihme-idUSKCN24G1S9 | 2020-07-16 |
| Speaking to a crowded room without wearing masks three of 18 volunteers monitored over a month at the Sechenov University said they all had experienced few sideeffects | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON Oliver Taylor a student at Englands University of Birmingham is a twentysomething with brown eyes light stubble and a slightly stiff smile | Negative | WASHINGTON Oliver Taylor a student at Englands University of Birmingham is a twentysomething with brown eyes light stubble and a slightly stiff smile | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E | 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 |
| Xu Zhangrun a constitutional law professor at the prestigious Tsinghua University returned home on Sunday morning six days after he was taken away by police | 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 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 |
| Tsinghua University did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | 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 |
| Its a good first said Dr William Schaffner a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who was not involved in the study | Positive | Experts say a vaccine is needed to put an end to the coronavirus pandemic that has sickened millions and caused nearly 575000 deaths worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna/moderna-phase-1-results-show-coronavirus-vaccine-safe-induces-immune-response-idUSKCN24F2SW | 2020-07-15 |
| 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 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 University of California system also said on Wednesday that it planned to sue over the new policy | Negative | WASHINGTON Californias attorney general will file a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block a Trump administration immigration rule that could force tens of thousands of international students to leave the United States if their schools hold all classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-immigration-students/california-sues-trump-administration-over-new-foreign-student-rules-idUSKBN24A3B8 | 2020-07-10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| NEW YORK Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block a new rule that would bar foreign students from remaining in the United States if their universities move all courses online due to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | NEW YORK Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block a new rule that would bar foreign students from remaining in the United States if their universities move all courses online due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-students-lawsuit/harvard-mit-seek-temporary-halt-to-trump-administration-rule-on-international-students-idUSKBN2491YF | 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 |
| Anthony Waldron a conservation researcher at the University of Cambridge and the studys lead author said this presented a huge economic opportunity in rural and developing areas | Positive | A lack of help from rich nations would lead to a higher risk of pandemics inequality and climate change they warned | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-nature-climatechange-trfn/investing-in-nature-rich-countries-is-an-insurance-policy-for-all-idUSKBN2492WQ | 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 |
| Some schools including Harvard University have said they would offer onlineonly classes which could create problems for their international students and may now have to alter their plans | Positive | NEW Many U.S. colleges were scrambling on Tuesday to modify plans for the fall semester in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic a day after the Trump administration issued an order that could force tens of thousands of foreign students to leave the country if their schools hold all classes online | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-students/u-s-colleges-scramble-after-new-trump-order-on-foreign-students-idUSKBN248395 | 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 |
| During a roundtable in Washington on reopening schools President Donald Trump criticized a decision by Harvard University to conduct courses online in the coming academic year | Negative | NEW Many U.S. colleges were scrambling on Tuesday to modify plans for the fall semester in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic a day after the Trump administration issued an order that could force tens of thousands of foreign students to leave the country if their schools hold all classes online | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-students/u-s-colleges-scramble-after-new-trump-order-on-foreign-students-idUSKBN248395 | 2020-07-08 |
| Eugene Tan a professor at Singapore Management University and exmember of parliament said the image of the wellpaid foreigner has become a in the political debate | Neutral | SINGAPORE For many Singaporeans voting on Friday under the cloud of the coronavirus pandemic a big election issue is job prospects and whether their rich little island needs so many foreigners taking betterpaid roles | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-singapore-politics-election/voting-in-time-of-the-coronavirus-singaporeans-question-foreign-hires-idUSKBN2480MW | 2020-07-07 |
| Fang Kecheng an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong said TikToks move highlighted the dilemma faced by Chinese companies trying to internationalise adding that it was | Negative | The source said the move was made because it was not clear if Hong Kong would now fall entirely under Beijings jurisdiction in light of the new law | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tiktok-hong-kong-exclusive/exclusive-tiktok-says-it-will-exit-hong-kong-market-within-days-idUSKBN2480AD | 2020-07-07 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The University of Oxford AstraZeneca and the Chinese embassy in Mexico City were not immediately available for comment | Negative | 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 |
| Jan Pieter Krahnen a finance expert at the Goethe University in Frankfurt said the case showed that Germanys lighttouch approach to controlling companies was failing | Negative | FRANKFURT German regulators twice looked into tightening the supervision of collapsed payments firm Wirecard and discussed it with the German and European central banks but no action was taken a person with direct knowledge of the talks told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts-regulators-exclusiv/exclusive-germany-missed-chances-to-put-wirecard-on-watchlist-source-says-idUSKBN2402C4 | 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 |
| Trump also blasted Princeton Universitys weekend announcement that it was removing former U.S. President Woodrow Wilsons name from its schools over his racist remarks and policies | Negative | President Donald Trump again accentuating racial tensions in America on Monday posted a video showing a Missouri couple brandishing guns towards protesters who were calling for police reforms | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-video/trump-posts-video-of-couple-brandishing-guns-towards-protesters-idUSKBN2402E4 | 2020-06-30 |
| Assaf Avraham an archaeologist at Israels BarIlan University said he too was worried about the fate of archaeological sites in the West Bank | Negative | NEAR JERICHO West Bank The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trumps peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-archae/israeli-campaigners-want-jewish-ruins-included-in-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN2401KB | 2020-06-30 |
| BOSTON Harvard University on Monday said it would discontinue its policy of sanctioning students who joined singlesex clubs citing a lawsuit by a group of U.S. fraternities and sororities who said the crackdown amounted to sexual discrimination | Negative | BOSTON Harvard University on Monday said it would discontinue its policy of sanctioning students who joined singlesex clubs citing a lawsuit by a group of U.S. fraternities and sororities who said the crackdown amounted to sexual discrimination | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-education-harvard/harvard-drops-single-sex-club-ban-after-lawsuit-by-fraternities-sororities-idUSKBN240351 | 2020-06-30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Princeton University is renaming its public policy school and Wilson College after concluding that U.S. President Woodrow Wilsons racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake | Negative | Princeton University is renaming its public policy school and Wilson College after concluding that U.S. President Woodrow Wilsons racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-protests-princeton/princeton-to-drop-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-school-idUSKBN23Y0TU | 2020-06-28 |
| The University of California Los Angeles promised to fight the move | Positive | The University of California Los Angeles promised to fight the move | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-education-under-armour/under-armour-to-discontinue-record-apparel-partnership-with-ucla-idUSKBN23Y0SL | 2020-06-28 |
| 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 |
| The COVIND19 study group led by Bhramar Mukherjee a biostatistics professor from the University of Michigan forecasts that India could see between 770000 and 925000 cases by July 15 | Negative | NEW DELHI India reported over 17000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours pushing the countrys total above 500000 federal health ministry data showed on Saturday with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cases-india/coronavirus-cases-in-india-cross-500000-as-big-cities-reel-from-surge-idUSKBN23Y06U | 2020-06-27 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Government adviser Zhu Feng the dean of the Institute of International Studies at Nanjing University said communication was important to prevent misjudgement | Positive | BEIJING The U.S. and Chinese militaries must keep communication channels open and take steps to prevent conflict even as ties worsen an influential Chinese government think tank said on Tuesday with one adviser suggesting an invitation to a major U.S. drill | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-usa-military/china-think-tank-calls-for-u-s-to-keep-military-communications-open-idUSKBN23U1DM | 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 |
| Sternhell a Holocaust survivor and a political science professor at Jerusalems Hebrew University which announced his death long opposed Israeli settlementbuilding on occupied land Palestinians seek for a state | Negative | JERUSALEM Zeev Sternhell a leading Israeli expert in the study of fascism and a prominent voice in a fading Israeli leftwing which he lamented was too weak to overcome ultranationalism died on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-sternhell/zeev-sternhell-leading-voice-of-israeli-left-dies-at-85-idUSKBN23S0LH | 2020-06-22 |
| Data from Johns Hopkins University shows new U.S. cases on Saturday hit the highest since early May | Neutral | KONG U.S. stock futures recouped losses on Monday but Asian stocks wobbled as investors tried to shake off worries that rising coronavirus cases in the United States could scupper a quick economic rebound | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-try-to-shake-off-second-wave-virus-fears-idUSKBN23S0X9 | 2020-06-22 |
| Data from Johns Hopkins University shows new U.S. cases on Saturday hit the highest level since early May | Neutral | 500 futures down as much as in early Asian trade | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-u-s-stock-futures-fall-as-infections-spike-hits-confidence-idUSL4N2DY0IQ | 2020-06-22 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dana WilliamsJohnson Instructor in the Howard University School of Business Marketing Department said companies making money off of Black consumers should have leadership that reflects the consumers that purchase the brands | Neutral | NEW LOreal SA Unilever and other multinationals that acquired personalcare brands founded by Black people are moving to reassure their core customers some of whom have pledged in the wake of racialjustice protests to direct their spending toward only Blackowned companies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-minneapolis-protests-black-products-f/brands-tout-black-heritage-as-some-shoppers-question-authenticity-idUSKBN23Q2X6 | 2020-06-20 |
| According to research recently published by the University of Maryland last year nearly 12 million hectares of tree cover were lost in the tropics globally | Negative | TerraMatch a platform and mobile app aims to link financiers to tree planters in key countries like Colombia Brazil Peru Malaysia and Indonesia they said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-climate-trees-trfn/new-platform-is-matchmaker-for-investors-planters-to-combat-deforestation-idUSKBN23P3SA | 2020-06-19 |
| 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 |
| LONDON An Oxford University college said on Wednesday it wanted to remove from its facade a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes that has been a target of antiracism protests though the decision would be made independently | Negative | LONDON An Oxford University college said on Wednesday it wanted to remove from its facade a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes that has been a target of antiracism protests though the decision would be made independently | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-statues-rhodes/oxford-college-says-it-wants-to-remove-statue-of-colonialist-rhodes-idUSKBN23O3AP | 2020-06-18 |
| 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 |
| University of Washington professor of medicine Dr Mark Wurfel urged the researchers to put out data before official publication | Negative | The report on Tuesday of a powerful treatment for the new coronavirus brought skepticism along with optimism among U.S. doctors who said the recent withdrawal of an influential COVID19 study left them wanting to see more data | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-steroid-data/show-me-the-data-u-s-doctors-skeptical-of-reported-covid-breakthrough-idUSKBN23N3ER | 2020-06-17 |
| 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 |
| Keith Neal an emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at Britains University of Nottingham said any link to salmon was likely the result of cross contamination | Negative | China has halted imports from European salmon suppliers amid fears they might be linked to a coronavirus outbreak at a Beijing market although experts say the fish itself is unlikely to carry the disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-salmon-norway/china-halts-european-salmon-imports-over-suspected-link-to-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN23M177 | 2020-06-16 |
| Yaman Akdeniz cyber rights expert and professor at Istanbul Bilgi University said the accounts removed by Twitter were only the tip of the of other questionable activity | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| 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 |
| Another scientist at the University of Maryland is running a followup trial with more mosquito spit proteins and a different vaccine formulation | Positive | Five years ago in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-mosquito-vaccine/how-a-vaccine-made-of-mosquito-spit-could-help-stop-the-next-epidemic-idUSKBN23I3EW | 2020-06-12 |
| 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 |
| The researchers from Kings College London and Australian National University also found that poverty would shift in its geographic distribution | Negative | LONDON The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could plunge an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty and swell the total number of those living on less than | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-poverty/coronavirus-crisis-could-see-number-of-extreme-poor-rise-to-1-1-billion-worldwide-researchers-idUSKBN23I3HL | 2020-06-12 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| OXFORD England More than 1000 protesters converged on a college at Oxford University on Tuesday chanting take it and shame on to demand the removal of a statue of 19th century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes | Negative | OXFORD England More than 1000 protesters converged on a college at Oxford University on Tuesday chanting take it and shame on to demand the removal of a statue of 19th century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-britain-r/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-protesters-target-statue-of-colonialist-idUSKBN23G2CF | 2020-06-10 |
| 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 |
| Ausubel the director of the Program for the Human Environment at New Yorks Rockefeller University says he and his fellow dreamers were ready even if their plan seemed unrealistic | Neutral | NEW YORK Eleven years ago environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel dreamed aloud in a commencement What if scientists could record the sounds of the ocean in the days before propellerdriven ships and boats spanned the | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 | 2020-06-09 |
| University of Washington researchers estimated on Monday that 145728 people could die of COVID19 in the United States by August raising their grim forecast by more than 5000 fatalities in a matter of days | Negative | University of Washington researchers estimated on Monday that 145728 people could die of COVID19 in the United States by August raising their grim forecast by more than 5000 fatalities in a matter of days | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/university-of-washington-forecasts-145000-u-s-covid-19-deaths-by-august-idUSKBN23G01D | 2020-06-09 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The University of Queensland said in April it was particularly pleased that the strength of the antibody response was better than those observed in samples from COVID19 recovered patients | 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 |
| 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 |
| Results of another University of Minnesota placebocontrolled trial testing hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment rather than to prevent infection is expected soon | Negative | The malaria drug promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID19 was ineffective in preventing infection in people exposed to the coronavirus according to a widely anticipated clinical trial released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/malaria-drug-touted-by-trump-fails-to-prevent-covid-19-in-high-profile-study-idUSKBN23A34F | 2020-06-04 |
| 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 |
| DNA sequencing conducted by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has allowed for finer matching or differentiation among the scrolls | Positive | JERUSALEM Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2000yearold artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianitys birth | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-archaeology-deadsea-scrolls/hides-that-reveal-dna-helps-scholars-divine-dead-sea-scrolls-idUSKBN239241 | 2020-06-03 |
| 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 |
| 4 University student Chow Tszlok 22 falls from the third to the second floor of a parking lot as police disperse protesters | Negative | HONG KONG Chinas decision to impose national security laws on Hong Kong has exacerbated public and international concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the city and has rekindled antigovernment protests in the financial centre | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-hongkong-protests-timeline/timeline-key-dates-in-hong-kongs-anti-government-protests-idUSKBN23608O | 2020-05-30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University of British Columbia professor Paul Evans predicted the two detainees would remain behind bars for some time | 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 |
| Shinya Yamanaka a Nobel Prizewinning stem cell biologist at Kyoto University has offered his lab to boost testing capacity | Positive | TOKYO At the beginning of April a young Japanese sumo wrestler known as Shobushi came down with a fever | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-testing/as-japan-reopens-coronavirus-testing-slowed-by-bureaucracy-and-staff-shortages-idUSKBN23406H | 2020-05-28 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shiro Armstrong director of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University said the antidumping cases were protectionist measures mostly aimed at | Neutral | SYDNEY China has responded to concern its decision to impose heavy tariffs on Australian barley was retaliation for a diplomatic dispute saying Australia had launched 100times as many trade investigations against China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-australia-barley/chinese-minister-says-australia-regularly-launches-trade-cases-idUSKBN2320EM | 2020-05-26 |
| 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 |
| The University of Oxfords COVID19 vaccine trial has only a chance of success as the coronavirus seems to be fading rapidly in Britain the professor coleading the development of the vaccine told the Telegraph newspaper | Negative | The University of Oxfords COVID19 vaccine trial has only a chance of success as the coronavirus seems to be fading rapidly in Britain the professor coleading the development of the vaccine told the Telegraph newspaper | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-oxford/project-leader-oxfords-covid-19-vaccine-trial-has-50-chance-of-success-telegraph-idUSKBN22Z0XC | 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 |
| 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 |
| Bocconi University holds online Master in Finance CEO Forum on Banking and Sustainable with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena CEO Marco Morelli Banca Nazionale del Lavoro CEO Andrea Munari | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-22/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-22-idUSL8N2D327C | 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 |
| The University of Alabama will require students and staff returning to its three campuses in the coming months to submit online health checks regularly and encourage them to download its contact tracing app officials told Reuters on Thursday | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-alabama-apps/university-of-alabama-to-push-contact-tracing-app-require-online-health-checks-idUSKBN22X2WX | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A 2011 proposal by the president of the University of Tokyo failed to gain traction despite backing from big business lobby Keidanren | Negative | 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 |
| Joseph University Hospital in New Jersey who cautioned people not to take hydroxychloroquine | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump in a surprise announcement said on Monday he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine against the coronavirus despite medical warnings about the use of the malaria drug | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-drug/trump-says-he-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-despite-fda-warning-idUSKBN22U2Y5 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| On Wednesday New York University researchers said the tests could be missing a third to nearly half of positive cases | Positive | Abbott has distributed more than 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-abbott/u-s-regulator-is-reviewing-abbotts-fast-covid-test-after-studies-raise-accuracy-concerns-idUSKBN22R07G | 2020-05-15 |
| 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 |
| There are 203 cases of the virus with zero deaths in the country according to the latest Johns Hopkins University data | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters Thousands of warhit people sheltering in an overcrowded camp in South Sudan now risk contracting COVID19 charities said on Thursday after the first two cases surfaced | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-southsudan-camps-t/first-war-now-covid-19-threatens-south-sudanese-in-crowded-camp-idUSKBN22Q2ZX | 2020-05-15 |
| A coronavirus mortality model from the University of Washingtons Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts over 88000 deaths from the coronavirus in Brazil by August | Negative | RIO DE Brazils confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus passed Germany on Tuesday as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fought states over his wish to reopen gyms and beauty parlors even as his country becomes a new global hotspot for the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-coronavirus-cases-pass-germanys-as-bolsonaro-fights-to-open-gyms-idUSKBN22O34J | 2020-05-13 |
| 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 |
| MooreGilbert a specialist in Middle East politics at the University of Melbourne has been detained in Iran since September 2018 the statement said | Negative | BritishAustralian academic Kylie MooreGilbert has repeatedly attempted suicide while detained in Iran the Center for Human Rights in Iran a New Yorkbased advocacy group said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-britain-detainee/british-australian-academic-has-repeatedly-attempted-suicide-in-iranian-jail-rights-group-idUSKBN22J39F | 2020-05-08 |
| Researchers at Oxford University say that of people need to sign up to apps to achieve the tracing levels needed to help defeat COVID19 | Positive | BERLIN A European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections that its backers hope could help to reopen borders without unleashing a second wave of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech/european-coalition-takes-shape-on-coronavirus-contact-tracing-idUSKBN22J1N8 | 2020-05-08 |
| That makes it one of Japans biggest clusters according to Reuters calculations based on Oxford University data | Negative | NAGASAKI Japan Seven days before Japan quarantined a cruise ship near Tokyo early this year in what became one of the first coronavirus hot spots outside China another cruise ship docked in southern Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-cruises/how-lax-rules-missed-warnings-led-to-japans-second-coronavirus-cruise-ship-hot-spot-idUSKBN22I3BJ | 2020-05-07 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hossam denied any wrongdoing but Cairo University where she is studying archaeology said it would enforce maximum penalties against her which could include expulsion | Negative | Because of a lack of surveillance some people are exploiting these apps in a manner that violates public morals and Egypts customs and Talaat said on Facebook | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-women-socialmedia-trfn/calls-in-egypt-for-censored-social-media-after-arrests-of-tiktok-star-belly-dancer-idUSKCN22A2ZY | 2020-04-29 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| But Forbes at the University of Lapland said ranches are not the solution as his research shows lichen loss is as related to trampling by reindeer as overgrazing | Negative | With such barbaric methods of conquering the Arctic in 100 years wont exist | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-climate-change-indigenous-gas/warming-climate-and-arctic-gas-push-threaten-russias-reindeer-herders-idUSKCN2261EM | 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 |
| Three quarterbacks including University of Alabamas Tua Tagovailoa and Oregons Justin Herbert were among the first six selections for the first time since 1999 | 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 |
| According to a University of Washington research model often cited by the White House coronavirus hospitalizations in Georgia should peak next week | Negative | ATLANTA With the U.S. coronavirus death toll topping 51000 and nearly one in six workers out of a job Georgia Oklahoma and several other states took tentative steps at reopening businesses on Friday despite disapproval from President Donald Trump and medical experts | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa/as-u-s-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-51000-handful-of-states-move-toward-reopening-idUSKCN22622O | 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 |
| A similar study conducted in Santa Clara County last week by a Stanford University researcher has been criticized over its methodology and sample size | Negative | LOS ANGELES Some 4 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-serology/los-angeles-coronavirus-infections-40-times-greater-than-known-cases-antibody-tests-suggest-idUSKBN22234S | 2020-04-21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| About twothirds of a countrys population would need to be involved for contact tracing to be effective a study by researchers at Oxford Universitys Big Data Institute said | Positive | BRUSSELS Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data the European Commission said on Thursday as Apple Inc and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-tech/apple-google-weigh-location-tracking-rules-as-eu-seeks-privacy-based-virus-apps-idUSKCN21Y1HL | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 University of Arizona has pledged to give antibody tests to all 45000 of its students and 15000 faculty | Positive | Arizona on Tuesday said it would provide coronavirus antibody tests for 250000 healthcare workers and first responders in the largest such testing in the United States to date | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-arizona/arizona-to-test-250000-first-responders-healthcare-workers-for-covid-19-idUSKCN21X04W | 2020-04-15 |
| 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 |
| April 14 Liberty University the evangelical Virginia school has been sued for refusing to refund fees for room board and other activities to students despite the coronavirus pandemic | Positive | April 14 Liberty University the evangelical Virginia school has been sued for refusing to refund fees for room board and other activities to students despite the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/health-coronavirus-liberty-university/students-sue-falwells-liberty-university-for-not-refunding-spring-fees-idUSL2N2C21FH | 2020-04-15 |
| Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz a former World Bank chief economist said new SDRs would not cost U.S. taxpayers anything | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. opposition is expected to prevent the International Monetary Fund this week from deploying one of its most powerful tools to help countries fight the creating a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-imf-worldbank-sdrs/u-s-opposition-seen-stalling-major-imf-liquidity-boost-idUSKCN21X0L8 | 2020-04-15 |
| Researchers at the University of Indonesia estimate there could be 140000 deaths and 1 | Negative | KEPUH Indonesia Kepuh village in Indonesia has been haunted by ghosts recently mysterious white figures jumping out at unsuspecting passersby then gliding off under a fullmoon sky | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-ghost-ro/ghosts-scare-indonesians-indoors-and-away-from-coronavirus-idUSKCN21V0E4 | 2020-04-13 |
| Migrant labourers might have already lost up to billion in wages during the lost working weeks of lockdown earlier this year one study by researchers at Stanford University estimates | Negative | BEIJING The coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause millions more people in China to lose their jobs leaving many of them stranded without a safety net unable to access state unemployment benefits economists say | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-unemployment/coronavirus-pandemic-to-test-chinas-unemployment-safety-net-idUSKCN21U0Y0 | 2020-04-13 |
| 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 |
| The prestigious Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing said on Friday it had dismissed Bao from his role as a parttime researcher | Negative | SHENZHEN China A prominent Chinese lawyer who served on the board of telecoms equipment giant ZTE Corp has resigned after several news articles in statebacked media reported that he was under investigation for alleged sexual assault | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-zte-director/prominent-china-lawyer-quits-zte-board-after-media-reports-of-sexual-assault-probe-idUSKCN21S0BF | 2020-04-11 |
| At Columbia University Irving Medical Center intubated patients are spending around two weeks on ventilators chief surgeon Dr | Neutral | One medical worker called it another said it induces paranoia the speed with which patients are declining and dying from the novel coronavirus is shocking even veteran doctors and nurses as they scramble to determine how to stop such sudden deterioration | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-deaths/from-fine-to-flailing-rapid-health-declines-in-covid-19-patients-jar-doctors-nurses-idUSKCN21Q36V | 2020-04-09 |
| 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 |
| Gabriel Rauterberg a University of Michigan law professor said that courts in Delaware where WeWork is suing SoftBank are generally receptive to arguments about specific performance | Negative | A WeWork board committee that negotiated a billion tender offer with SoftBank Group sued the Japanese conglomerate on Tuesday for abandoning the deal accusing it of succumbing to buyers amid the novel coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-wework-softbank-lawsuit/wework-sues-softbank-for-dropping-3-billion-tender-offer-idUSKBN21P1RF | 2020-04-08 |
| 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 |
| Keio University Hospital said one trainee doctor tested positive for the virus last week and that tests on another 98 found 17 more were also positive | Positive | TOKYO One of Japans most prestigious hospitals apologised for an unforgivable after 40 trainee doctors attended a drinking party and 18 subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-tokyo-hospital/tokyo-hospital-trainees-test-positive-for-coronavirus-after-party-idUSKBN21P1D0 | 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 |
| The latest research model from the University of Washington one of several cited by leading health authorities has forecast U.S. coronavirus deaths totaling fewer than 82000 by Aug | Negative | NEW YORK Even as medical teams struggled to save an onslaught of gravely ill coronavirus patients and deaths hit new highs the number of COVID19 hospitalizations seemed to be leveling off in New York state the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/hardest-day-new-yorks-cuomo-sees-virus-slowing-despite-record-death-toll-idUSKBN21P21E | 2020-04-08 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| So far 49 students among the group from University of Texas at Austin have tested positive for the coronavirus upon their return to the United States according to the university | Negative | MEXICO CITY College students from Texas who tested positive for the novel coronavirus after spring break in Los Cabos traveled to the Mexican beach resort on Viva Aerobus the airline said and were there a week later than reported by the local tourist board | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-springbreak/airline-refutes-mexican-authoritys-account-of-spring-break-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21M07G | 2020-04-04 |
| 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 |
| The United States leads the world in confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 188000 infections and 3873 deaths according to a Johns Hopkins University tally | Negative | WASHINGTON An emergency stockpile of medical equipment maintained by the U.S. government has nearly run out of protective gear that could be useful to combat the coronavirus pandemic according to two officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-stockpile/u-s-emergency-medical-stockpile-nearly-out-of-protective-gear-as-demand-rises-officials-idUSKBN21J3TJ | 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 |
| At least one New York City hospital New University Medical Center in Manhattan has begun a trial of sharing single ventilators between two patients | Negative | NEW YORK The number of U.S. coronavirus infections climbed above 82000 on Thursday surpassing the national tallies of China and Italy as New York New Orleans and other hot spots faced a surge in hospitalizations and looming shortages of supplies staff and sick beds | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-has-most-coronavirus-cases-in-world-next-wave-aimed-at-louisiana-idUSKBN21D1ZR | 2020-03-27 |
| 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 |
| A 2018 study by the University of Californias Williams Institute found that of U.S. samesex couples had adopted children and had fostered a rate seven times that of straight couples | Neutral | 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 |
| However Budi Waryanto an epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia told The hospitals are not ready to support the potential cases | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic according to data reviewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-response/indonesias-health-system-on-the-brink-as-coronavirus-surge-looms-idUSKBN21C0J6 | 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 |
| 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 |
| TOKYO Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges Inc said on Tuesday that it and Osaka University had completed development of a DNA vaccine against the new coronavirus and that it would begin testing it in animals soon | Positive | TOKYO Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges Inc said on Tuesday that it and Osaka University had completed development of a DNA vaccine against the new coronavirus and that it would begin testing it in animals soon | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-anges/pharma-firm-anges-and-osaka-university-to-begin-testing-coronavirus-vaccine-on-animals-idUSKBN21B019 | 2020-03-24 |
| 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 |
| Its a good first step but much more will be needed even with the Feds recent moves to intervene across private said Kenneth Rogoff a Harvard University economist | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has stepped into the breach as the Trump administrations point man to rescue the economy from coronavirus devastation taking on the role his former Goldman Sachs boss Hank Paulson played over a decade ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-mnuchin/this-is-no-2008-mnuchin-borrows-from-paulsons-economic-crisis-playbook-idUSKBN217315 | 2020-03-21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Erin Fox senior director of drug information at University of Utah Health who maintains ASHPs shortages list said pharmacists are unable to get the drug or fill prescriptions in full | Negative | NEW YORK An old malaria treatment that has been tried with some success against the new coronavirus and was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump at a news briefing earlier on Thursday is in short supply as demand surges amid the fastspreading outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-shortages-excl/potential-coronavirus-treatment-touted-by-trump-already-in-shortage-pharmacists-say-idUSKBN2163JD | 2020-03-20 |
| Fox said that University of Utahs 12 retail pharmacies are not filling prescriptions for prophylactic use and are preserving their stocks for inpatient needs | Neutral | NEW YORK An old malaria treatment that has been tried with some success against the new coronavirus and was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump at a news briefing earlier on Thursday is in short supply as demand surges amid the fastspreading outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-shortages-excl/potential-coronavirus-treatment-touted-by-trump-already-in-shortage-pharmacists-say-idUSKBN2163JD | 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 |
| Opinion polls conducted by NBC News and Monmouth University show Biden with a slight edge in a headtohead contest with Trump in Arizona | Neutral | WASHINGTON With Bernie Sanders on the ropes in the race for the Democratic Party nomination Joe Biden can turn his attention now to a November matchup against Republican Donald Trump backed by momentum in states that decide U.S. presidential elections | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-battlegrounds-analysis/bidens-wins-in-u-s-states-that-matter-most-set-stage-for-duel-with-trump-idUSKBN215375 | 2020-03-19 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| 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 |
| Yu Ding a graduate student at George Washington University also decided to stay on in the United States after weighing up the risks | Negative | 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 |
| A coronavirus tracker map from John Hopkins University showed there were more than 150000 confirmed cases worldwide on Saturday with the death toll topping 5600 | Negative | A coronavirus tracker map from John Hopkins University showed there were more than 150000 confirmed cases worldwide on Saturday with the death toll topping 5600 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-politics/poor-nations-may-see-higher-coronavirus-deaths-warns-un-official-idUSKBN21303A | 2020-03-16 |
| 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 |
| The University of Washington in Seattle has been running a drivethrough testing center at a parking garage for the past week | Neutral | NEW New York state opened its first drivethrough coronavirus test site on Friday following a similar experiment in Seattle | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-drivethrough/drive-through-coronavirus-tests-coming-to-a-store-near-you-idUSKBN21100B | 2020-03-14 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Separately Mexicos National Autonomous University said it would be tightening preventative measures against the spread of coronavirus but was not suspending classes yet | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos Tecnologico de Monterrey university said on Thursday it would suspend all academic events and classes at its campuses from next week until further notice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-education/major-mexican-university-to-suspend-classes-until-further-notice-idUSKBN210002 | 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 |
| 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 |
| There were 1311 cases in total in the United States according to a Johns Hopkins University tally | Negative | WASHINGTON Travelers scrambled to rebook flights and global markets reeled on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping restrictions on travel from Europe hitting battered airlines and further straining ties with the continent | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/trump-restricts-travel-from-europe-as-coronavirus-disrupts-life-in-u-s-idUSKBN20Z0DY | 2020-03-12 |
| 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 |
| Columbia University in New York City said it was suspending classes on Monday and Tuesday because someone on the campus was under quarantine from exposure to the virus | Negative | YORK Older Americans especially those with chronic medical concerns should probably avoid big social gatherings and airline flights given the rapid spread of coronavirus a top U.S. health official said on Sunday as investors braced for another volatile week in financial markets | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/confirmed-coronavirus-may-force-americans-to-avoid-crowds-and-cancel-cruises-u-s-cases-near-550-idUSKBN20V0MK | 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 |
| Part of the explanation said Robert Talisse a Vanderbilt University philosophy professor who studies political polarization is that political divisiveness often works in subtle ways | Negative | WASHINGTON Americans who now find themselves politically divided over seemingly everything are now forming two very different views of another major the dangers of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-polarization/americans-divided-on-party-lines-over-risk-from-coronavirus-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN20T2O3 | 2020-03-07 |
| Jana Bowden an associate professor of marketing at Macquarie University said government calls for people not to panicbuy toilet paper might actually spur more hoarding | Neutral | SYDNEY A delivery truck carrying toilet paper has burst into flames in the Australian city of Brisbane ratcheting up a sense of panic about the availability of the product generated by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-truck/australian-toilet-paper-truck-catches-fire-sparking-new-tissue-tizzy-idUSKBN20S0FM | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| But Zhang Zhan a doctor at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan Universitys Department of Respiratory and Critical Care said the requirement should be raised to three tests | Neutral | BEIJING Worrying cases of recovered coronavirus patients in China testing positive again for the infection have raised questions among doctors about the criteria being used for discharging people from hospital | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-reinfection/china-doctors-seek-tougher-discharge-criteria-after-positive-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN20Q1BK | 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 |
| A Monmouth University poll released on Thursday showed Biden with heavy support from black South Carolina voters who make up about of the states Democratic electorate | Positive | CHARLESTON S.C. Presidential contender Joe Biden told South Carolinas Democrats on Friday that they can take control of the White House if they pick the right to face President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/on-the-trail-biden-aims-for-significant-south-carolina-win-trump-urges-supporters-to-intervene-idUSKCN20M1JF | 2020-02-29 |
| 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 |
| Moscow State University will receive 890 million rubles | Neutral | 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 |
| Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter in waffles cakes and cookies saying using grease from insects is more sustainable than dairy produce | Positive | GHENT Belgium Belgian waffles may be about to become more environmentally friendly | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-cake-bugs/waiter-theres-a-fly-in-my-waffle-belgian-researchers-try-out-insect-butter-idUSKCN20M23U | 2020-02-29 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LONDON Reuters University student Sophie Meehan was enjoying a family trip to the theater in London when pictures of a strangers genitals popped up on her mobile phone | Positive | LONDON Reuters University student Sophie Meehan was enjoying a family trip to the theater in London when pictures of a strangers genitals popped up on her mobile phone | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-cyberflashing-legislation-trfn/gross-and-shocking-women-call-for-new-laws-to-stop-cyber-flashing-idUSKCN20M0H3 | 2020-02-28 |
| Research published last year by Denmarks Aarhus University found girls find unsolicited socalled dick intrusive and often regard them as misguided attempts at flirting | Negative | LONDON Reuters University student Sophie Meehan was enjoying a family trip to the theater in London when pictures of a strangers genitals popped up on her mobile phone | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-cyberflashing-legislation-trfn/gross-and-shocking-women-call-for-new-laws-to-stop-cyber-flashing-idUSKCN20M0H3 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DUBAI Iran said on Sunday an Iranian infected by the new coronavirus died in the country head of the Medical Science University in the Mazandaran province was quoted as saying bringing the number of deaths to seven in the Islamic Republic | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Sunday an Iranian infected by the new coronavirus died in the country head of the Medical Science University in the Mazandaran province was quoted as saying bringing the number of deaths to seven in the Islamic Republic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-iran/iran-confirms-another-dead-because-of-the-new-coronavirus-official-idUSKCN20H09B | 2020-02-24 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ann McKee of Boston University studies the brains of deceased football players at the worlds largest brain bank hoping to learn about the longterm impact of repeated head traumas for people ranging from professional athletes to victims of domestic abuse | Neutral | BOSTON Dr | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-science-brain-injury-research/in-brains-of-dead-athletes-researchers-seek-clues-to-head-trauma-idUSKBN20E2F6 | 2020-02-21 |
| 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 |
| Robin Thompson an expert in mathematical epidemiology at Britains University of Oxford said that with nearly 50 cases in Europe a death was not surprising | Negative | SHANGHAI The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday more than three weeks after the outbreaks epicenter was locked down and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France the first fatality in Europe | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/new-chinese-coronavirus-cases-show-slight-fall-chinese-tourist-dies-in-france-idUSKBN20A036 | 2020-02-16 |
| Helen Fisher a biological anthropologist at the Indiana Universitys Kinsey Institute said three areas of the brain allow for relationships to flourish over the long term | Positive | CORAL GABLES Fla | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-valentines-day-couples/for-valentines-day-florida-couples-share-secrets-of-long-lasting-love-idUSKBN2062ER | 2020-02-15 |
| But Hiroshi Oshitani a professor of virology at Tohoku University School of Medicine said the situation in Japan had entered a new stage | Negative | TOKYO Japan on Friday vowed to step up testing and efforts to contain the spread of a new coronavirus after suffering its first death and finding new cases including a doctor and at least one taxi driver in different parts of the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan/after-first-death-japan-pledges-more-containment-effort-cases-increase-idUSKBN20809I | 2020-02-15 |
| 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 |
| Brandon Brown a health expert at the University of California said that despite some passengers concerns recycled air on the ship did not pose a risk | Positive | TOKYO A woman has died from the coronavirus in Japan the first such death in the country since the epidemic spread from China the health minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/japan-records-first-coronavirus-death-two-taxi-drivers-test-positive-idUSKBN20708N | 2020-02-14 |
| Yale University in New Haven Connecticut may not have reported at least million in foreign money over the last four years the department said in a statement | Negative | The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has opened an investigation into whether the universities of Harvard and Yale failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts as required by law | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-foreign-money/harvard-and-yale-universities-investigated-for-possible-non-disclosure-of-foreign-money-idUSKBN20703A | 2020-02-13 |
| 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 |
| A national hotline run by Beijing Normal University was overwhelmed when it went live at the end of January said Cheng Qi a Shanghaibased psychologist | Negative | SHENZHEN China Hundreds of 24hour mental health support telephone hotlines have sprung up in China in recent weeks as millions of people fret about catching the coronavirus and try to avoid infection by staying at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-mental/chinese-public-dial-in-for-support-as-coronavirus-takes-mental-toll-idUSKBN2070H2 | 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 team of scientists which included Maseno University PhD student Collins Kipkorir Kebenei used fecal samples to study resistance levels in the bacteria found in 16 black rhinos | Negative | RUMA NATIONAL PARK Kenya The mighty rhinos living in a national park in Kenya face a new microscopic drugresistant bacteria | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-kenya-rhinos/rhinos-in-kenya-face-a-new-threat-drug-resistant-bacteria-study-idUSKBN2051G7 | 2020-02-12 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Eisenberg professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan said it was too early to say whether the epidemic was peaking | Negative | China raised the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic to 811 on Sunday passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic in and raising anxiety among people preparing to return to work after an extended Lunar New Year break | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/china-to-stagger-back-to-work-as-virus-deaths-surpass-sars-toll-idUSKBN2020SN | 2020-02-09 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Paul Hunter an expert in infectious disease at Britains University of East Anglia said the potential for cruise ships spreading the epidemic across the world was becoming a serious concern | Negative | TOKYO Dozens more people on a cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday and thousands of passengers remained confined to their cabins only allowed on deck briefly for fresh air | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-marooned-off-japan-rise-to-61-idUSKBN20102S | 2020-02-08 |
| But James Wood head of the veterinary medicine department at Britains University of Cambridge said the research was far from robust | Positive | Independent scientists questioned research on Friday that suggested that the outbreak of coronavirus disease spreading from China might have passed from bats to humans through the illegal traffic of pangolins | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-pangolins/scientists-question-work-suggesting-pangolin-coronavirus-link-idUSKBN2010XA | 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 |
| Robin Thompson a specialist at Britains Oxford University who has published predictions about this outbreak and is actively working on updating them agrees | Positive | 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 |
| On its sprawling campus in Americas heartland thousands of miles from China the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign has taken aggressive steps to keep the fastspreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students | Negative | On its sprawling campus in Americas heartland thousands of miles from China the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign has taken aggressive steps to keep the fastspreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-education/u-s-universities-set-up-front-line-defenses-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-idUSKBN1ZW0FD | 2020-02-03 |
| At University of Illinois with some 5800 Chinese students Kaler sees a challenge in keeping the campus free of the new coronavirus without infringing on rights or fanning xenophobia | Negative | On its sprawling campus in Americas heartland thousands of miles from China the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign has taken aggressive steps to keep the fastspreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-education/u-s-universities-set-up-front-line-defenses-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-idUSKBN1ZW0FD | 2020-02-03 |
| New York University where more than 7000 Chinese students go to college has pushed back the start of its spring semester at NYU Shanghai by two weeks to Feb | Positive | On its sprawling campus in Americas heartland thousands of miles from China the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign has taken aggressive steps to keep the fastspreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-education/u-s-universities-set-up-front-line-defenses-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-idUSKBN1ZW0FD | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SHANGHAI A major scientific database run by Chinas Tsinghua University has made its contents available free of charge from Wednesday in order to help researchers work from home following a virus outbreak in the central city of Wuhan | Positive | SHANGHAI A major scientific database run by Chinas Tsinghua University has made its contents available free of charge from Wednesday in order to help researchers work from home following a virus outbreak in the central city of Wuhan | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-science/china-science-database-scraps-paywall-to-aid-virus-battle-idUSKBN1ZS0T1 | 2020-01-30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Harvard and Boston University said they were cooperating with investigators | Positive | 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 |
| Firman Kurniawan a digital communications expert from the University of Indonesia said the bill means a for consumer protection | Positive | JAKARTA Indonesias government has submitted a bill to parliament aimed at protecting consumer data in the digital era which includes punishment of up to seven years in jail for distribution of personal data without consent a minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-data/indonesia-to-step-up-data-protection-with-new-bill-amid-booming-digital-economy-idUSKBN1ZR1NL | 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 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 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 |
| Gabriel Leung the dean of the medical school of Hong Kong University urged the public to increase its alreadysubstantial wearing of glasses | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam declared a virus emergency on Saturday announcing measures to limit links with mainland China and prevent the spread of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hongkong/hong-kong-leader-declares-virus-emergency-halts-official-visits-to-mainland-china-idUSKBN1ZO0B7 | 2020-01-26 |
| According to Bryce Dyer a sports technologist and specialist in at Britains Bournemouth University benefits like this are the equivalent of bringing a gun to a knife | Positive | LONDON Athletics ruling body will tighten regulations governing shoe technology two sources familiar with the matter said after Nikes popular Vaporfly brand helped rewrite running records and sparked debate about whether it was technological doping | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-shoe/athletics-body-to-tighten-rules-after-nikes-vaporfly-helps-records-tumble-sources-idUSKBN1ZN0MJ | 2020-01-25 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff at Singapores National University Hospital were handing out face masks and taking the temperature of arriving visitors when Reuters visited early on Friday | Positive | SINGAPORE Schools in Singapore asked parents to declare overseas holiday plans as authorities screened travelers at air land and sea checkpoints on Friday to combat the spread of a deadly flu virus that has revived memories of the SARS pandemic in 2003 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-singapore/singapore-ramps-up-virus-fight-reviving-memories-of-sars-pandemic-idUSKBN1ZN05M | 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 |
| Andrew Kent a constitutional law professor at Fordham University in New York said there is a strong argument that executive privilege does not apply to impeachment whatsoever | 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 |
| 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 |
| Mario Luis Fuentes an academic from the National Autonomous University of Mexico said underfunded prosecutors could be recategorizing crimes that are tough to investigate | Negative | State authorities launched 515 trafficking cases last year up from 385 in 2018 according to new government data | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-trafficking-trfn/mexico-human-trafficking-cases-rise-by-a-third-but-many-states-found-lagging-idUSKBN1ZL2LY | 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 |
| Helen Siobhan Marshall of the University of Adelaide did not respond to a request for an interview | Neutral | Meanwhile an Australian study is showing that while the vaccine also works in teens it does not extend herd to unvaccinated children as some vaccines do | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-meningococcalb-vaccine/vaccine-prevents-deadly-meningitis-b-in-infants-idUSKBN1ZL30S | 2020-01-23 |
| 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 |
| Python Michael Palin who met Jones at Oxford University said he was kind generous supportive and passionate about living life to the | Positive | LONDON Terry Jones one of the British Monty Python comedy team and director of religious satire Life of has died at the age of 77 after a long battle with dementia his family said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-terryjones/monty-python-star-terry-jones-dies-aged-77-idUSKBN1ZL1QG | 2020-01-23 |
| Rosental Alves journalism professor at Texas University tweeted that prosecutors exposed by Greenwald seemed to be seeking revenge when in fact he was trying to protect his sources | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian prosecutors charged U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday with assisting a group of hackers who intercepted the cellular phone calls of Justice Minister Sergio Moro when he was the judge handling Brazils biggestever corruption case | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption-greenwald/brazil-prosecutors-charge-the-intercepts-greenwald-with-hacking-idUSKBN1ZK29F | 2020-01-22 |
| MOSCOW Oleg Matytsin the president of the International University Sports Federation was named Russias new sports minister in a government reshuffle on Tuesday as the country finds itself embroiled in a doping scandal that has seen it in barred from this years Olympics | Negative | MOSCOW Oleg Matytsin the president of the International University Sports Federation was named Russias new sports minister in a government reshuffle on Tuesday as the country finds itself embroiled in a doping scandal that has seen it in barred from this years Olympics | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-government-matytsin/russia-names-new-sports-minister-in-government-reshuffle-idUSKBN1ZK2CO | 2020-01-22 |
| 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 |
| Democratic Representative Adam Smith a former college classmate of Cipollones and fellow debate team member at Fordham University in New York has remained friends with Cipollone despite their political differences | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University of Alberta President David Turpin said at least 10 members of the university community had died including students faculty and alumni | Negative | 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 |
| Deepika Padukone stood silently behind students chanting antigovernment slogans at New Delhis Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday evening surprising many in a country where top film stars typically avoid politics | Neutral | MUMBAI A top Indian actress who joined students protesting against the government drew calls on social media on Wednesday for a boycott of her upcoming film as well as praise for being a rare Bollywood Alister to stand up against a crackdown on dissent | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-student-protests/bollywood-a-lister-backs-protesting-students-faces-boycott-calls-idUSKBN1Z71CU | 2020-01-09 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Korea National Defense Universitys Jeong Hanbeom said North Korea could use computer simulations to develop smaller and lighter warheads without new nuclear tests | Negative | SEOUL If North Korea returns to longrange missile launches or other weapons tests in 2020 its military could make valuable technical advances and gain experience alongside whatever political message is sent to Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-northkorea-missiles-technology-analys/faster-rockets-more-warheads-what-north-korea-could-gain-from-new-weapons-development-idUSKBN1Z10BQ | 2020-01-03 |
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| Prof Allister Ferguson from the University of Strathclyde and a fellow of the Institute of Physics also becomes a CBE. | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Prof Andrew Pollard the chief investigator of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca said they were hoping regulators would soon give their approval for its use. | Positive | The service and at least two others have urged people to only call 999 if there is a serious emergency. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-55462701 | 2020-12-28 |
| 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 |
| Staff at the Nerc Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds UK have examined A68as changing shape over its threeandahalfyear history. | Neutral | The latest satellite analysis indicates this Antarctic colossus maintains a thickness that could yet see it catch in the waters surrounding the South Atlantic island of South Georgia. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55428520 | 2020-12-24 |
| 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 |
| Prof Alan Woodward a cybersecurity researcher at the University of Surrey Post Cold War this is one of the potentially largest penetrations of Western governments that Im aware of. | Negative | Were constantly urged to do as were told because these software updates improve our apps by boosting cybersecurity and removing glitches. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-55321643 | 2020-12-16 |
| 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 |
| Prof Stephen Reicher of the University of St Andrews Right now we are heading towards disaster. | Neutral | London most of Essex and parts of Hertfordshire will join tier three at GMT on Wednesday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-55311717 | 2020-12-15 |
| And Prof Ted Scambos from the University of Colorado Boulder US says we should also be on alert for the possibility of a spectacular disintegration of the berg. | Negative | If that happens it could make life extremely difficult for the wildlife havens penguins and seals as they go about foraging for fish and krill. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55305576 | 2020-12-15 |
| Prof Alan McNally an expert at the University of Birmingham told the Lets not be hysterical | Positive | Health Secretary Matt Hancock said at least 60 different local authorities had recorded Covid infections caused by the new variant | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-55308211 | 2020-12-15 |
| 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 |
| A study of 10 patients at Oxford University used a novel scanning technique to identify damage not picked up by conventional scans. | Positive | A study of 10 patients at Oxford University used a novel scanning technique to identify damage not picked up by conventional scans. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-55017301 | 2020-12-02 |
| Carl Sayer a professor at University College London stumbled on the plant when he went to survey the pond at Heydon shortly after the first national lockdown ended. | Negative | The pinkishflowered plant known as grasspoly was found growing on the banks of an old farmland pond in Norfolk | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-55104153 | 2020-11-28 |
| Melbourne University ViceChancellor Duncan Maskell said he was delighted at the news We have waited a long time for this day | Positive | Kylie MooreGilbert has consistently denied accusations of espionage since her arrest in Iran in September 2018. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-55081682 | 2020-11-26 |
| The Melbourne University lecturer had been travelling on an Australian passport in 2018 when she was detained at Tehran airport as she tried to leave following a conference. | Negative | Kylie MooreGilbert has consistently denied accusations of espionage since her arrest in Iran in September 2018. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-55081682 | 2020-11-26 |
| And Paul Hunter professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia suggested the relaxation of restrictions at Christmas will almost inevitably lead to an increase in transmission. | Negative | People can mix in homes places of worship and outdoor spaces and travel restrictions will also be eased | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-55064962 | 2020-11-25 |
| However Prof Alan Woodward a cybersecurity expert from Surrey University said he thought people should not be added to the network by default. | Neutral | Amazon Sidewalk uses customer broadband accounts to create a neighbourhoodwide network for local devices. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-55059696 | 2020-11-25 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| According to Johns Hopkins University the country has suffered 100104 deaths since the pandemic began | Negative | According to Johns Hopkins University the country has suffered 100104 deaths since the pandemic began | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-55011840 | 2020-11-20 |
| According to John Hopkins University in the US Mexico now becomes fourth in the ranking of countries with the highest death figures in the world | Negative | According to Johns Hopkins University the country has suffered 100104 deaths since the pandemic began | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-55011840 | 2020-11-20 |
| According to Johns Hopkins University the country has now reported 250029 deaths and nearly 11 | Negative | According to Johns Hopkins University the country has now reported 250029 deaths and nearly 11 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-54995655 | 2020-11-19 |
| 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 |
| Prof Eleanor Riley from University of Edinburgh worried the data had been rushed out too soon. | Negative | The data is based on 20 cases of Covid19 from 16000 volunteers given the Sputnik V vaccine or a dummy injection. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-54905330 | 2020-11-12 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Prof Peter Horby from the University of Oxford This news made me smile from ear to ear. | 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 |
| At Oxford University an associate professor involved in Chinese studies is allowing her students to submit their work anonymously to protect them a position supported by her superiors. | Positive | It applies to everyone in the world everywhere in the world | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-54718434 | 2020-11-09 |
| 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 |
| Since the start of the pandemic Denmark has reported 52265 human cases of Covid19 and 733 deaths data from Johns Hopkins University shows | Negative | The government has warned that the effectiveness of any future vaccine could be affected by the mutation. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-54833459 | 2020-11-06 |
| Smita Iyer an immunologist at the University of California Davis believes the hygiene hypothesis in Covid19 does fly in the face of our understanding of antiviral immune responses. | Neutral | Now new research by Indian scientists suggests that low hygiene lack of clean drinking water and unsanitary conditions may have actually saved many lives from severe Covid19 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54730290 | 2020-11-02 |
| Prof Shaun Quegan from Sheffield University UK studies Earths carbon balance but was not involved in this research. | Neutral | An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of carbon dioxide absorption by new forests has been underestimated. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54714692 | 2020-10-29 |
| 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 |
| It gives us some time to do some investigation said the Open University researcher | Negative | This unambiguous detection of molecular water will boost Nasas hopes of establishing a lunar base | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54666328 | 2020-10-27 |
| But Professor Jillian Anable from Leeds University warns that even electric cars pose their own problems that politicians seem reluctant to acknowledge | Negative | The prime minister seems to think so. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54662615 | 2020-10-25 |
| 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 |
| In a statement Oxford University All significant medical incidents whether participants are in the control group or the Covid19 vaccine group are independently reviewed. | Neutral | Brazils health authority has given no details about the death citing confidentiality protocols. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-54634518 | 2020-10-22 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Oxford University said a careful assessment had revealed no safety concerns. | Positive | Brazils health authority has given no details about the death citing confidentiality protocols. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-54634518 | 2020-10-22 |
| Only around half the volunteers in the trial are given the actual Oxford University Covid19 vaccine | Positive | Brazils health authority has given no details about the death citing confidentiality protocols. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-54634518 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Curtin University said the collapse happened at a building that was under construction by property group Lendlease. | 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 Johnson Johnson jab like the Oxford University Astra Zeneca one is in the advanced stage of testing | Positive | The company said an independent review would check if the persons unexplained symptoms were related to the jab | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-54521527 | 2020-10-14 |
| The Stanford University game theorists have helped in developing formats for the sale of aircraft landing slots radio spectrums and emissions trading. | Positive | The Stanford University game theorists have helped in developing formats for the sale of aircraft landing slots radio spectrums and emissions trading. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-54509051 | 2020-10-13 |
| 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 |
| UKborn mathematical physicist Sir Roger from the University of Oxford demonstrated that black holes were an inevitable consequence of Alberts Einsteins general theory of relativity | Negative | Sir Roger Penrose Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this years winners at a news conference in Stockholm. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-54420240 | 2020-10-07 |
| The Sheffield University UK team says a best estimate for the yield is 500 tons of TNT equivalent with a reasonable upper limit of 1 | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Dr David Strain clinical senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and chairman of the BMAs medical academic staff committee raised concerns about the technology being discussed. | Negative | Scientists and health professionals have raised doubts about Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Operation Moonshot plan for mass coronavirus testing. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-54097050 | 2020-09-10 |
| University of Texas law school professor Steve Vladeck told CNN that such an intervention by the justice department was highly unusual. | Negative | The US Department of Justice has taken legal action to defend President Donald Trump in a defamation case from a woman who accuses him of raping her. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-54081921 | 2020-09-09 |
| But Prof Ben Neuman at the University of Reading said culturing virus from a patient sample was not trivial. | Positive | The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections scientists say | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-54000629 | 2020-09-05 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan Reid professor of physical chemistry at the University of Bristol is one of the authors of the paper which was supported by Public Health England. | Positive | Singing does not produce substantially more respiratory particles than speaking at a similar volume a study suggests. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-53853961 | 2020-08-21 |
| Since the discoveries in the southwest of the island scientists from Londons Natural History Museum the University of Newcastle and University of York have been analysing the prehistoric markings. | Neutral | Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs found on Jersey are the earliest known art in the British Isles researchers say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53835146 | 2020-08-20 |
| Dr Chantal Conneller a coauthor from Newcastle University These engraved stone fragments provide exciting and rare evidence of artistic expression at what was the farthest edge of the Magdalenian world | Positive | Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs found on Jersey are the earliest known art in the British Isles researchers say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53835146 | 2020-08-20 |
| 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 |
| According to the global tally kept by Johns Hopkins University the number of Covid19 deaths in Australia has reached 361 and the total number of officially confirmed cases is 22358. | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kylie MooreGilbert a lecturer at Melbourne University has been in jail since September 2018. | Negative | A BritishAustralian woman serving a 10year sentence in Iran for espionage has been transferred to a notorious prison in the desert officials say. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-53562435 | 2020-07-29 |
| Mr Tai 56 accused the University of Hong Kong of bowing to pressure from Beijing and said the ruling was the end of academic freedom. | Negative | A leading Hong Kong university has fired its law professor Benny Tai due to a criminal conviction over his role in the 2014 prodemocracy protests | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-53567333 | 2020-07-29 |
| 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 |
| According to Johns Hopkins University Spain has recorded270166 cases of coronavirus and28429 deaths. | Negative | Portugal remains off the list of countries that the government has exempted from quarantine restrictions. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-53528490 | 2020-07-25 |
| Dr Costas Velis from the University of Leeds said the number was staggering but that we had the technology and the opportunity to stem the tide | Positive | An estimated 1 | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53521001 | 2020-07-24 |
| Prof Jamie Woodward also from the University of Manchester pointed out the irony in this scenario being laid out during the pandemic | Negative | An estimated 1 | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-53521001 | 2020-07-24 |
| 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 |
| A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response | Neutral | A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-53469839 | 2020-07-21 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| And Prof Cheng Fangping at Renmin University told BBC Chinese that as student documents were now largely online it was harder for them to be doctored | Neutral | 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 |
| Cambridge Universitys Fitzwilliam College Canterbury Christ Church University and The Mary Rose Trust were among the organisations to cut ties with him. | Negative | Historian David Starkey has said using comments denounced as racist during a discussion about slavery were a bad mistake for which he is very sorry. | http://www.bbc.com//news/entertainment-arts-53308061 | 2020-07-07 |
| Dr Michael Veale a digital rights expert at University College London warns of the potential for mission creep | Negative | Singapores TraceTogether Tokens are the latest effort to tackle Covid19 with tech | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-53146360 | 2020-07-06 |
| 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 |
| 7 million confirmed Covid19 infections and more than 128000 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the pandemic | Negative | US President Donald Trump long opposed to wearing a face covering in public says he is all for masks and they make him look like the Lone Ranger. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53258792 | 2020-07-02 |
| 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 |
| On Saturday Johns Hopkins University said the total number of cases in the country had risen to 2505593 | Neutral | Coronavirus infections across the United States have passed 2 | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53205720 | 2020-06-28 |
| 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 |
| The total of 40173 given by Johns Hopkins University was the highest daily total so far exceeding the record set only the previous day | Positive | US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci says the nation has a serious problem as 16 states reel from a spike in Covid19 cases. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53200834 | 2020-06-27 |
| The University of Washington predicts 180000 US deaths by October or 146000 if of Americans wear masks. | Negative | At least 20 million people in the US may already have been infected with Covid19 according to the latest estimate by health officials. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-53186075 | 2020-06-26 |
| I very much doubt that its the leaflets that actually motivated Pyongyang in this Fyodor Tertitskiy of Kookmin University in Seoul had earlier told the BBC. | Negative | North Korea has suspended plans for military action against South Korea according to state media. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-53159577 | 2020-06-24 |
| 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 |
| 2 million and nearly 119000 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the disease globally | Negative | Brazil has become the second country in the world to confirm more than one million cases of Covid19 as the disease continues to spread. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-53092196 | 2020-06-20 |
| Eric Gordy a Balkans specialist at University College London says the partial opposition boycott and the predictability of the outcome are damaging to Serbias democratic credentials. | Negative | The disruption from coronavirus is not the only thing Serbias parliamentary election has in common with the restart of the English Premier League | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-53107011 | 2020-06-20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| In the trial led by a team from Oxford University about 2000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4000 who were not | Positive | A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-53061281 | 2020-06-17 |
| 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 |
| Prof Joseph Uscinski a political scientist at the University of Miami and author of books on conspiracy theories believes it is simply because he is rich and famous. | Positive | In 2015 an unassuminglooking Bill Gates came on stage at the TED conference in Vancouver to issue a dire warning. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52833706 | 2020-06-06 |
| 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 |
| Prof Tim Palmer from Oxford University said there were still too many unknowns in climate forecasting. | Neutral | A top climate scientist has called for more investment in climate computing to explain the UKs recent topsy turvy weather. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52921479 | 2020-06-05 |
| According to a count by Johns Hopkins University Brazil now has 498440 confirmed cases. | Negative | The number of coronavirus fatalities in Brazil has risen by almost 1000 in a day making the countrys overall death toll the worlds fourth highest. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52868854 | 2020-06-01 |
| 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 |
| In the latest study published in Tel Aviv Universitys archaeological journal archaeologists say two limestone altars had been buried within the shrine | Negative | Ancient Israelites burned cannabis as part of their religious rituals an archaeological study has found. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-middle-east-52847175 | 2020-05-30 |
| A study from Columbia University in New York suggested about 36000 fewer people would have died if the US had acted sooner. | 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 |
| 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 |
| However Seattle University confirmed to Politico that Ms Reade did have a law degree from there. | Neutral | Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden is in damage limitation mode after saying African Americans aint black if they even consider voting for President Donald Trump over him | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52773555 | 2020-05-23 |
| 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 |
| The lead author Dr Diana Ivanova from Leeds University told BBC We need a complete change of mindset | Neutral | Climate change can still be tackled but only if people are willing to embrace major shifts in the way we live a report says. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-52719662 | 2020-05-20 |
| 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 |
| A vaccine pioneered by the University of Oxford is also being tested in people but there are no results from those trials yet | Neutral | The first hints that a vaccine can train peoples immune system to fight coronavirus have been reported by a company in the US. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-52677203 | 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 |
| Devi Sridhar professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh The big challenge with outbreaks is that no country wants to have one. | Neutral | Global health leaders are set to call for a review into the international response to the Covid19 pandemic. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-52679329 | 2020-05-18 |
| 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 |
| Manchester University has already decided to deliver the bulk of its learning online in the autumn term and similar discussions are going on in universities around the UK and beyond | 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 |
| 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 |
| But Wuhan University pathogen biology department deputy director Yang Zhanqiu told the Global Times newspaper he believed between three and five million Wuhan residents had already been tested. | Neutral | China is drawing up ambitious plans to test the entire population of Wuhan the city where the Covid19 pandemic began. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-52651651 | 2020-05-15 |
| Wuhan Universitys Yang Zhanqiu said there was no need to test every resident in neighbourhoods with no reported cases | Neutral | China is drawing up ambitious plans to test the entire population of Wuhan the city where the Covid19 pandemic began. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-52651651 | 2020-05-15 |
| 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 |
| Sree Sreenivasan a Loeb Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism said it was eradefining news. | Positive | Twitter has told staff that they can work from home forever if they wish as the company looks towards the future after the coronavirus pandemic. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-52628119 | 2020-05-13 |
| 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 |
| 2 million confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 70000 related deaths according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland which is tracking the pandemic | Negative | US President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House coronavirus task force will be winding down with VicePresident Mike Pence suggesting it could be disbanded within weeks. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52553829 | 2020-05-06 |
| 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 |
| JeanLouis Vincent a professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Belgiums Erasme University Hospital told me there was underreporting of Covid19 deaths in many countries including India. | Negative | The global media reports are a mixture of relief and bafflement | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-52435463 | 2020-04-28 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Scientists at Oxford University are in the process of validating an antibody test also known as an Elisa test which will be used in this study. | Neutral | Twenty thousand households in England are being contacted to take part in a study to track coronavirus in the general population | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-52390970 | 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 |
| He said two leading vaccine developments at UK universities Imperial College London and the University of Oxford would receive a total of | Neutral | The government is facing fresh questions over the time it took to join an EU scheme to source medical equipment. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-politics-52377087 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| And Prof Babak Javid consultant in infectious diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals said population mask wearing should be an important part of the response to Covid. | Neutral | NHS supplies of face masks could be put at risk if the government starts advising the public to wear them hospital bosses have warned. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-52363378 | 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 |
| 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 |
| China has confirmed nearly 84000 coronavirus infections the seventhhighest globally according to Johns Hopkins University data. | Negative | The Chinese city of Wuhan where the coronavirus originated last year has raised its official Covid19 death toll by adding 1290 fatalities. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-52321529 | 2020-04-18 |
| A total of 1764 people have died with Covid19 in Brazil while the country has had 29165 confirmed cases according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. | Negative | Brazils health minister has been fired by the countrys rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-latin-america-52316150 | 2020-04-17 |
| Tim Harcourt from the University of New South Wales Business School says the JobKeeper allowance is a throwback to more collaborative times. | Neutral | For many in Australia the bushfire catastrophe now seems a distant memory as the coronavirus pandemic takes this country deeper into the unknown | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52131939 | 2020-04-16 |
| 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 latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows more than 20000 people in the US have now died. | Negative | The United States now has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52258284 | 2020-04-12 |
| Figures from Johns Hopkins University show 2108 people died in the past 24 hours while there are now more than half a million confirmed infections. | Negative | The US has become the first country in the world to record more than 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single day | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52249963 | 2020-04-11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 vaccines made by Oxford University and US company Inovio Pharmaceutical have been cleared for animal testing by the World Health Organization. | Positive | Scientists in Australia have begun testing two potential coronavirus vaccines in milestone lab trials. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52130402 | 2020-04-02 |
| The Oxford University vaccine for example is also being tested by another lab on a separate animal to comply with US regulations. | Positive | Scientists in Australia have begun testing two potential coronavirus vaccines in milestone lab trials. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-52130402 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University the US has overtaken China and Italy | Negative | The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country with more than 85500 positive tests. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52056586 | 2020-03-27 |
| 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 |
| Academics at Leicester University are developing a maskbased test that could cost just per unit it said. | Positive | A private healthcare clinic in London has defended its decision to charge for a coronavirus test. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-52007155 | 2020-03-24 |
| According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University more than 310000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed around the world with some 13000 deaths | Negative | Germany has expanded curbs on social interactions to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak banning public gatherings of more than two people. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-51999080 | 2020-03-23 |
| 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 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 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 |
| Prof Rob MacKenzie of the University of Birmingham is honest about the lack of knowledge | Negative | The UK government has pledged to plant millions a year while other countries have schemes running into billions | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51633560 | 2020-03-14 |
| Keith Neal emeritus professor in the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham said the measures would help contain the spread of the virus. | Neutral | The governments decision not to cancel public events over the coronavirus outbreak is concerning says exhealth secretary Jeremy Hunt. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-51865915 | 2020-03-13 |
| Meanwhile Susan Michie professor of health psychology at University College London said nobody has the right answer when it comes to tackling the virus. | Neutral | The governments decision not to cancel public events over the coronavirus outbreak is concerning says exhealth secretary Jeremy Hunt. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-51865915 | 2020-03-13 |
| University teaching is being suspended as well as indoor events involving more than 100 people and outdoor events with more than 500 | Negative | Austria has banned people entering the country from Italy unless they carry a medical certificate in an attempt to stop coronavirus spreading. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-51815907 | 2020-03-11 |
| 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 |
| His coauthor Prof Friederike Otto from the University of Oxford said such work was needed to build a more accurate picture of the risk of bush fires | Positive | Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent Australian bushfires. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51742646 | 2020-03-05 |
| Prof Roberto Perotti of Bocconi University in Milan says more of the same is now in | Neutral | Italy was the first European country to report a major surge in cases of the coronavirus with numbers quickly climbing into the hundreds. | http://www.bbc.com//news/business-51650974 | 2020-03-01 |
| Prof Jonathan Ball from the University of Nottingham said the Surrey case marks a new chapter for the UK and that it is crucial to understand the infections origin. | Negative | Health officials are trying to discover how a man in England caught coronavirus after he became the first person to be infected within the UK. | http://www.bbc.com//news/uk-51684624 | 2020-02-29 |
| Scientists from Queens University Belfast discovered that while the pine marten preys on both species the greys are much more vulnerable to attack | Negative | A native predator of the red squirrel appears to be an unlikely ally in its battle with the grey squirrel | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51637091 | 2020-02-26 |
| So Joshua Twining from Queens University Belfast used pine marten scent to investigate | Negative | A native predator of the red squirrel appears to be an unlikely ally in its battle with the grey squirrel | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51637091 | 2020-02-26 |
| A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots. | Neutral | A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-51595285 | 2020-02-22 |
| Though the Brown University study was unable to identify who set up the bots Professor Ferrara from USC said there is cause for concern. | Negative | A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-51595285 | 2020-02-22 |
| 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 |
| Japanese health expert Kentaro Iwata professor at the infectious diseases division of Japans Kobe University visited the Diamond Princess and said the situation on board was completely chaotic. | Negative | Two passengers from a cruise ship quarantined in Japan have died after contracting the Covid19 virus | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-51568496 | 2020-02-20 |
| Ruth BenGhiat a historian and cultural critic at New York University He clearly identifies with this man who has a harsh sentence and is a fighter. | Negative | US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of Rod Blagojevich the former Illinois governor convicted of trying to sell Barack Obamas vacated US Senate seat | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-49377676 | 2020-02-19 |
| 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 |
| The latest seat projection by University College Dublin for puts Fianna Fail as the largest party on 45 seats with Sinn on 37 and Fine Gael on 36. | Negative | Sinn president Mary Lou McDonald has described the Irish general election as something of a revolution in the ballot box. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-51432660 | 2020-02-10 |
| 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 |
| At local time on Saturday an Ipsos MRBI exit poll commissioned by The Irish Times TG4 and University College Dublin will be published. | Negative | Voters are going to the polls in the Republic of Irelands general election | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-51416540 | 2020-02-08 |
| 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 |
| But estimates by the University of Hong Kong suggest the total number of cases could be far higher than official figures. | Neutral | Chinas top leadership has admitted shortcomings and deficiencies in the countrys response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51362336 | 2020-02-04 |
| But estimates by the University of Hong Kong suggest the total number of cases could be far higher than the official figures. | Neutral | Hundreds of hospital workers in Hong Kong have gone on strike demanding the border with mainland China be completely closed to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-51349154 | 2020-02-03 |
| 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 University of Queensland is working on a molecular clamp vaccine which it says enables targeted and rapid vaccine production against multiple viral pathogens | Positive | A deadly new virus | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-51299735 | 2020-01-30 |
| Dr Kiya Riverman a glaciologist at the University of Oregon drills down with an ice auger a large spiral stainlesssteel drill bit and sets small explosive charges. | Negative | Sediment sweeps past the camera as Icefin a bright yellow remotely operated robot submarine moves tentatively forward under the ice. | http://www.bbc.com//news/science-environment-51097309 | 2020-01-28 |
| Elsewhere a team at Lancaster University have published their estimates of the number of cases suggesting 11000 have been infected this year | Negative | The spread of a deadly new virus is accelerating Chinese President Xi Jinping warned after holding a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year public holiday. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51249208 | 2020-01-26 |
| 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 |
| But the University of Oxford graduate and former barrister and banker told the BBC he was the victim of a ruthless political insurgency. | Negative | Australian PM Scott Morrison has been accused of lacking leadership during the bushfire crisis by the man he replaced after a party room coup | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-51202534 | 2020-01-22 |
| 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 |
| However Gabriel Leung the dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong put the figure closer to 1300. | Neutral | A fourth person in China has died from a new virus that has spread rapidly across the country as authorities confirmed that it can be passed from persontoperson. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-china-51185836 | 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 |
| The researchers at the University of Washington said the alarming figures were double previous estimates | Negative | One in five deaths around the world is caused by sepsis also known as blood poisoning shows the most comprehensive analysis of the condition. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-51138859 | 2020-01-17 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gary Marcus an AI researcher at New York University By the end of the decade there was a growing realisation that current techniques can only carry us so far | Negative | 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 |
| David Bowman a professor of pyrogeography from the University of Tasmania told the BBC that the implications of the current fires in Australia could not be underestimated | Negative | An employee of Australian media organisation News Corp has lashed out at the company for irresponsible coverage of the current bushfires engulfing parts of the country. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-australia-51071800 | 2020-01-11 |
| Sinagas friends at the University of Indonesia say he was a flamboyant and popular student. | Positive | The father of Reynhard Sinaga the worst rapist in British legal history has said his sons punishment fits his crimes after he was jailed for life. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-51027404 | 2020-01-08 |
| 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 |
| Professor Leon Terry from Cranfield University told BBC News there was growing interest from investors in novel foods. | Positive | 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 |
| The team at the University of California San Francisco says the technology could help people when disease robs them of their ability to talk. | Positive | It has been a remarkable year of promise in medical science from inventing ways of treating the untreatable to reversing paralysis and keeping the brain alive after death. | http://www.bbc.com//news/health-50813226 | 2020-01-01 |
