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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| To be sure some institutions have lowered tuition and fees including Georgetown Princeton and Northwestern University where fall tuition was slashed by | Negative | CHICAGO Fulltime students at Chicagos Columbia College spend a year for professional handson training in dance film and music that the school normally offers in studios and classrooms scattered across the citys South Loop and Near South Side | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-students-tuition/with-classroom-time-reduced-u-s-college-students-demand-tuition-cuts-idUSKBN26I0FU | 2020-09-28 |
| The cadets were from the Kharkiv University of the Air Force which is run by the defence ministry | Neutral | KYIV Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday the causes of a military plane crash which killed 26 people would be investigated promptly and impartially | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-crash/ukraines-president-orders-prompt-investigation-of-plane-crash-idUSKBN26H0H2 | 2020-09-27 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| I was very surprised stunned in said astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in Wales lead author of the research published in the journal Nature Astronomy | Positive | WASHINGTON Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earths inhospitable neighbor a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-exploration-venus/potential-sign-of-alien-life-detected-on-inhospitable-venus-idUSKBN2652GO | 2020-09-15 |
| Enrollment in the companys global trials of the vaccine which it is developing with researchers at Oxford University was put on pause on Sept | Positive | CHICAGO AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine trial remains on hold in the United States pending a U.S. investigation into a serious side effect in Britain even as other trials of the vaccine resume sources familiar with the details told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-us-exc/exclusive-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-in-u-s-on-hold-until-at-least-midweek-sources-idUSKBN26536Y | 2020-09-15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Helfman wanted to hold her school Northeastern University responsible for what she alleges was a sexual assault that occurred in 2013 when she was a freshman and drank too much at a dormroom Halloween party | Negative | A young woman named Morgan Helfman lost her case this week at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/legal-us-otc-northeastern/colleges-have-a-duty-to-protect-drunk-students-from-imminent-danger-says-mass-high-court-idUSKCN24T2ZV | 2020-07-30 |
| The 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| More than 24000 people have so far died of the coronavirus in Italy according to USbased Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the disease globally. | Negative | The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the countrys outbreak began authorities have said | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-europe-52363044 | 2020-04-21 |
| That spike could be because Johns Hopkins University which records the data began to include deaths with a Covid19 probable cause. | Negative | President Donald Trump has defended tweets in which he appeared to endorse protests against stringent lockdown measures in several US states. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-us-canada-52330531 | 2020-04-18 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
