Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Senate to vote on COVID-19 aid as soon as this week: McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate will move to take up their proposed COVID-19 relief legislation and vote as soon as this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a st...
Sep 08, 2020
Dozens of abandoned migrants rescued in Sahara
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 80 African migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert after they were robbed and left to die by people they had paid to smuggle them to Libya, the U.N. migration ag...
Sep 08, 2020
Former Italian PM Berlusconi’s health is ‘constantly improving’: doctor
ROME (Reuters) - The health of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in hospital after contracting coronavirus, is "constantly improving", his personal doctor said in a statement on Tuesday...
Sep 08, 2020
Top Nokia investor has high expectations after past underperformance
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia's largest investor said on Tuesday it had high expectations of new management after the Finnish telecoms equipment maker had failed to live up to its potential under previou...
Sep 08, 2020
Record floods threaten pyramid sites in Sudan
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Record floods in Sudan have threatened sites housing the royal pyramids of Meroe and Nuri, two of the country's most important archaeological areas, an official said on Tuesday. T...
Sep 08, 2020
Iran building new production hall for centrifuges in mountains near Natanz
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has begun to build a hall in "the heart of the mountains" near its Natanz nuclear site for the production of advanced centrifuges, Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday. It is me...
Sep 08, 2020
Lebanese Sunni cleric warns against strife after Beirut shootout
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim religious leader warned against a slide towards violence on Tuesday after a deadly Beirut shootout added to concerns about deteriorating law and order in ...
Sep 08, 2020
As FARC leader testifies, survivors of sexual abuse, recruitment see little hope for justice
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) - Yudy Tovar would like to believe that hope is the last thing ever lost. But Tovar, who was forcibly recruited and sexually abused as a teenager by Colombia's now...
Sep 08, 2020
Nigerian doctors strike again over benefits amid coronavirus
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian resident doctors began their second strike of the year over pay and working conditions amid the spread of the new coronavirus, the doctors' union told Reute...
Sep 08, 2020
Belgium seeks new name for road tunnel as it takes on colonial past
By Bart Biesemans and Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels has asked its residents to pick a new name for the King Leopold II road tunnel in a step aimed at coming to terms with Belgium's c...
Sep 08, 2020
