Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Gone fishing – English angling sees post-lockdown boom
LONDON (Reuters) - Fishing in England has seen a post COVID-19 lockdown boom as more people take advantage of the mental health and wellbeing benefits of casting a rod and being at one with nature, th...
Aug 13, 2020
Hardened Lebanese merchants battered by Beirut blast
By Michael Georgy BEIRUT (Reuters) - Sleep Comfort survived Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But nothing could have prepared the high-end family furniture business for the Beirut port blast that destroyed...
Aug 13, 2020
North Macedonia’s pro-Western leader gets nod to form new government
SKOPJE (Reuters) - North Macedonia's president on Thursday handed a mandate to pro-Western ex-prime minister Zoran Zaev to form a new government after his party bloc narrowly won a July 15 election. "...
Aug 13, 2020
Exclusive: ByteDance censored anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020, say sources
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content it perceived as critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, si...
Aug 13, 2020
EU eyes sanctions over disputed Belarus election ‘as soon as end-August’
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Belarus as soon as later this month, diplomats and officials said, after President Alexander Lukashenk...
Aug 13, 2020
Remove masks, celebrate freedom: fashion grannies return to Beijing street ‘catwalk’
BEIJING (Reuters) - Four famous amateur model grandmothers took off their masks during a saunter down the streets of Beijing on Thursday to demonstrate life returning to normal as the COVID-19 pandemi...
Aug 13, 2020
Airlines cut European recovery outlook as pandemic drags on
PARIS (Reuters) - Airlines further lowered their European traffic outlook on Thursday, as persistent travel restrictions and concerns about a second wave of COVID-19 dent recovery prospects for the se...
Aug 13, 2020
Belgian students to self-collect saliva in large COVID-19 testing experiment
By Francesco Guarascio and Yves Herman BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Thousands of students at a Belgian university will collect weekly from September a sample of their saliva for a rapid COVID-19 test replacin...
Aug 13, 2020
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family cements power with ministerial picks
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed five members of his own family to cabinet and ministerial roles following his resounding parliamentary election w...
Aug 13, 2020
Factbox: AstraZeneca’s potential coronavirus vaccine
(Reuters) - Argentina and Mexico will produce the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for most of Latin America, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Wednesday Drugmakers are racing to combat the pa...
Aug 13, 2020
