Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Investors led by Boston Celtics co-owner buy into Italy soccer club Atalanta
MILAN (Reuters) - A group of investors led by the co-owner of the Boston Celtics has reached an agreement to buy a 55% stake in a vehicle that controls Italian Serie A soccer club Atalanta. In a state...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Ukrainian lawmakers and foreign media came under fire in eastern Ukraine: ruling party
KYIV (Reuters) - A group of lawmakers and foreign media visiting the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine came under fire and had to be evacuated to a shelter, the spokeswoman for President Volodymyr Zele...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Ukraine says mercenaries arrived in eastern Ukraine to stage provocations
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military on Saturday said that mercenaries had arrived in separatist-held eastern Ukraine to stage provocations in collaboration with Russia's special services. "The purpose...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Send fighter jets to the Baltics to defend their airspace, Estonia tells U.S.
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia has asked the United States to send fighter jets to the Baltic states to defend their skies, amid worries that Russia could be poised for an attack on Ukra...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Russia says shell hit building near Ukraine border - TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Local authorities in southwest Russia said on Saturday that a shell hit a village house near the Ukrainian border, damaging its roof but hurting no one, the TASS news agency reporte...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Germany urges nationals to leave Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's foreign ministry on Saturday told German nationals to leave Ukraine now, as tensions between Russia and Ukraine increased further. "German nationals are urged to leave the...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Olympics - Bobsleigh - Nolte and Levi of Germany take two-woman gold
YANQING, China (Reuters) - Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany won the gold medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday. Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt of ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Exclusive: Post-Soviet military bloc says it could send peacekeepers to Donbass if needed
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of a Russia-dominated military alliance that is sometimes called Moscow's answer to NATO has said his organisation could send peacekeepers to territory in ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Olympics-Figure skating-Chinese pair banish fraught Games with home gold
By Chang-Ran Kim and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong made sure the Beijing Games' controversial figure skating competition ended in celebration on Saturday...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
Scholz's dismissal of alleged genocide in Donbass 'unacceptable,' Russia says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's dismissal of Moscow's assertion of genocide in the east Ukraine region of Donbass held by pro-Russia rebels is "unacceptable," Interfax newsagency re...
Thomson Reuters Feb 19, 2022
