Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Motor racing-Baku keen to become an F1 sprint race next season
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Azerbaijan wants its Formula One Grand Prix in Baku to be one of six proposed Sprint weekends next season, promoter Arif Rahimov said on Monday. Speaking to reporter...
May 16, 2022
Blast from gas leak hits Tunisian minister's house, security official says
TUNIS (Reuters) - A gas leak caused a blast at the home of Tunisia's interior minister on Monday, leaving him unhurt but causing slight burns to his wife, a security official said. Interior Minister T...
May 16, 2022
How the new Latin America left is seeking a greener future
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Colombia's presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro wants, if he wins later this month, to stop all new oil exploration and move his country to a greener f...
May 16, 2022
Russia closely following progress of Finnish, Swedish NATO bids -Kremlin
(Reuters) - Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Monday said Russia was closely following Finland and Sweden's bids to join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, and was convinced that their accession...
May 16, 2022
McDonald's to exit Russia after more than 30 years
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Monday it has started a process to sell all its restaurants in Russia, exiting the country after more than 30 years following its invasion of Ukraine. The world's l...
May 16, 2022
Lacking vaccines, N.Korea battles COVID with antibiotics, home remedies
By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a COVID-19 outbreak that - in...
May 16, 2022
Powell's Fed getting more diverse, but big gaps remain
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - The Senate's sign-off last week on Jerome Powell's second term as head of the Federal Reserve leaves the helm of the U.S. central bank in the hands of a white male, just as i...
May 16, 2022
Trump-era special prosecutor takes ex-Clinton campaign lawyer to trial
By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawyer who worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign faces a criminal trial this week on charges of lying to the FBI in a crucial ...
May 16, 2022
Facing raft of Trump-inspired new voter limits, Democrats gird for legal battles
By Nathan Layne and Kia Johnson CUMMING, Ga. (Reuters) - When a Forsyth County, Georgia, man last week challenged the eligibility of 13,000 voters, a power that a new state law gives individual citize...
May 16, 2022
Tokyo COVID curbs declared illegal in "Kill Bill" restaurant case
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's "Kill Bill" restaurant operator prevailed in a court case on Monday that declared Tokyo's now defunct COVID-19 infection curbs were illegal. The orders, enacte...
May 16, 2022
