Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UN Security Council acts to boost aid to Gaza after US abstains
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and called for urgent steps "to creat...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Only gauze and iodine for injured patients at Gaza field hospital
GAZA (Reuters) - All Palestinian surgeon Bashir al-Hourani has to work with in the central Gaza school where he helps run a field clinic amid Israel's pounding offensive is gauze and disinfectant as h...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Poland hopes truckers dispute can be solved by year-end
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's deputy infrastructure minister said on Friday, after a meeting in Kyiv, that he hoped truckers' protests on the border with Ukraine could be solved before the end of the yea...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Former Ecuador VP asks for asylum in Mexico -lawyer
QUITO (Reuters) - Former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, convicted twice for corruption, has asked Mexico for political asylum, arguing that he is being persecuted by the attorney general's offi...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Facebook's Meta fined for breaches of Italian gambling ads ban
ROME (Reuters) - Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has become the latest tech company to be fined in Italy for breaches of a ban on the advertising of gambling. Meta has been fined 5.85 ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Angola's OPEC exit opens way for more Chinese investment
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) - Angola's decision to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries could open the way for Beijing to increase investment in the country's oil and other se...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Head of Russian space company arrested on fraud charge - state media
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yevgeny Fomichev, the head of a company that makes navigation systems for Russia's space programme, was arrested in Moscow and charged with major fraud, state news agencies reported...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
US new home sales fall to one-year low in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes dropped to a one-year low in November, but the unexpected decline is probably temporary amid a chronic shortage of previously owned homes, ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
Mexican president to boost measures aimed at curbing migration
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday his government plans to reinforce measures aimed at containing migration as he seeks to assist the United States in...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
France grounds aircraft bound to Nicaragua with some 300 Indians on board
PARIS (Reuters) - France has grounded a charter flight headed to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers, and a judicial investigation into the conditions and purposes of the trip has been launched, ...
Thomson Reuters Dec 22, 2023
