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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -A trial of Pfizer Incs experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 was stopped early after the drug was shown to cut by 89% the chances of hospitalization or death for adults at risk of developing severe disease, the company said on Friday. The results appear to surpass those seen with Merck & Co Incs pill, molnupiravir, which was shown last month to halve the likelihood of dying or being hospitalized for COVID-19 patients also at high risk of serious illness. Full trial...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea can get all the uranium it needs for nuclear weapons through its existing Pyongsan mill, and satellite imagery of tailings piles suggests the country can produce far more nuclear fuel than it is, a new academic study concludes. Despite a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear weapons tests since 2017, North Korea has said it is continuing to build its arsenal, and this year it appeared to have restarted https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-kore...

Swiss Robotics Day Swiss Robotics Day, organised by NCCR Robotics, the most comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland on robotics for the service sector. The event is based on a historically successful conference format with exhibition character. It brings together industry, researchers, innovators, developers, investors, engineers and students to share experiences, new ideas and technologies and to jointly develop solutions for future needs. A wide range of activities ensures that the meeting is ...

On 18 November 2021 at the Palais des Nations (Geneva, Switzerland), the Summit’s edition entitled ‘New Generation, New Solutions’ will honour six outstanding young people who have driven concrete change for their communities and the environment. The third Young Activists Summit (#YAS21) will shed light on six individuals aged between 15 and 26 and their remarkable achievements in all parts of the world. The 2021 laureates demonstrate that youth has the power to shape a sustainable and equ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Danish authorities have detained a Russian research vessel and seized the ships documents, Russias embassy in Copenhagen said on Thursday. Russian RIA news agency reported that 61 people were on board of the vessel, citing the embassy. The embassy said the vessel, Akademik Ioffe of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was detained on Nov. 1 while it was refuelling at the port of Skagen. The arrest of the vessel was carried out as an interim ...

Helping nations speak to nations. A collaborative news service with the participation of SWI swissinfo.ch provides European audiences with trusted content from across Europe thanks to an innovative news sharing model. The curated news feed, A European Perspective, keeps audiences throughout Europe up to date on the most important issues and common challenges of our times, overcoming the language barriers that often separate them. SWI swissinfo.ch is a member of the ten public service media which...

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading disease experts. They expect that the first countries to emerge from the pandemic will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus, su...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received a degree from the University of Cambridge on Wednesday, warning that the world risked falling into a spiral of crises unless it put critical thinking and truth back to the centre of global discourse. Cambridge conferred a honorary degree of Doctor of Law on Guterres, recognising his work and the work of the United Nations, founded in 1945 as a way bring peace after the horrors of World War Two. We face a crisis in the values on ...

More than half of respondents expressed no reservations about using the app for the Covid certificate.

By Mark John GLASGOW (Reuters) - The worlds armies must keep pace with global efforts to tackle climate change and cut their huge carbon footprints according to clearly defined benchmarks, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. Little reliable data exists on emissions created by military activities but there is no doubt they are big: a 2019 report conluded the U.S. military would be the worlds 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases if it were a country. There is no way to rea...