Author Archives: Syndicated Content
NASA to showcase Webb space telescope's first full-color images
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) - Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a re...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Explainer-How Sri Lanka spiralled into crisis
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa has not commented directly but he plans to ste...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Chinese protesters demanding bank deposits tussle with security men
BEIJING (Reuters) - Several people protesting in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou over the freezing of deposits by some rural-based banks said they were injured on Sunday when heavy-handed security perso...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Candidates to replace UK PM Johnson jostle in packed race
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - The contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathered pace on Sunday as five more candidates declared their intention to run, with many pledging low...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Russia restricts access to website of German daily Die Welt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has restricted access to the website of Germany's Die Welt newspaper at the request of prosecutors, according to the country's communications regulator. Russian officials acc...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Soccer-Forest sign Richards from Bayern
(Reuters) - Nottingham Forest have signed defender Omar Richards from Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich on a four-year contract, the newly promoted Premier League club said on Sunday. British media r...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Junior trade minister Mordaunt announces bid to be next UK PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt on Sunday launched her bid to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, becoming the ninth Conservative lawmaker to announce they are r...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
South Africa shootings in Soweto tavern kills 14 - police
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on people sitting in a tavern in South Africa's biggest township of Soweto in the early hours of Sunday, killing 14 and wounding another nine, police said. ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
Japan election: what you need to know
(Reuters) - Japanese voters went to the polls for a parliamentary election that may give the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) a surge of support after the assassination of former Prime Minister S...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
China's Shanghai asks public to share 'heart-warming' COVID lockdown stories
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The government of Shanghai has called on citizens to share "heart-warming" photographs, videos and stories about a punishing two-month lockdown imposed in April by the authorities...
Thomson Reuters Jul 10, 2022
