Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Pakistan's largest province to hold snap polls in win for former PM Khan
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE (Reuters) - A snap local election will be held in Pakistan's most populous province, officials said, after the provincial leader, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan...
Jan 16, 2023
Russian-installed official in Crimea says air defences shot down 10 drones
(Reuters) - The Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol in Crimea said on Monday that air defences had downed 10 drones over the city in what he called a "failed Ukrainian attack". Sevastopol, which ...
Jan 16, 2023
EU Commission wants first joint purchases of gas by summer
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission aims for EU countries to start jointly buying gas "well before summer", European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic said on Monday, an attempt to hel...
Jan 16, 2023
Tennis-Rybakina has no problem being away from Australian Open spotlight
By Shrivathsa Sridhar MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina shrugged off having to play Monday's Australian Open first round match on an outer court at Melbourne Park, saying she did...
Jan 16, 2023
Brazil's crowdfunded insurrection leaves paper trail for police
By Gabriel Stargardter and Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - With a Brazil flag draped around his neck and his feet propped up on a dark wooden table, Samuel Faria leaned back in the Brazilian Senate...
Jan 16, 2023
Analysis-Europe boosts Russian diesel buying ahead of ban set to rock market
By Rowena Edwards, Ron Bousso and Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) - European traders are rushing to fill tanks with Russian diesel as the clock runs down on a Feb. 5 European ban expected to tighten su...
Jan 16, 2023
Soccer-Shakhtar Donetsk to allocate $25 million for aid in Ukraine
(Reuters) - Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk will allocate $25 million to aid soldiers and their families, president Rinat Akhmetov said on Monday, a day after receiving a record transfer fee for winge...
Jan 16, 2023
China to boost spending for COVID prevention, treatment
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's finance ministry said on Monday it will boost funding for COVID-19 prevention and control, urging local fiscal departments to step up transfer payments to rural and poor ar...
Jan 16, 2023
Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank raid, medics say
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy on Monday during a raid in the occupied West Bank that touched off confrontations with residents, medics and witness...
Jan 16, 2023
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida dies at 95 - ANSA
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died at 95, ANSA news agency reported on Monday. Lollobrigida shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol and later became a ...
Jan 16, 2023
