Author Archives: Syndicated Content
In northern Afghanistan, girls' schools working despite ban elsewhere
KABUL (Reuters) - While girls across most of Afghanistan remain at home while brothers go to high school, classes in some northern areas have been open for all students, highlighting regional differen...
Oct 12, 2021
Lawyer urges leave for jailed Iranian American if father has surgery
DUBAI (Reuters) - The lawyer for an Iranian American jailed in Iran for security offences urged Tehran to allow him to leave jail temporarily if his elderly father undergoes surgery in the country, a ...
Oct 12, 2021
Motor racing-F1 benefiting from cost cap and rule changes, says Brawn
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One fans are seeing the benefits of this year's cost cap and the new rules coming for 2022, the sport's managing director Ross Brawn said on Tuesday with the championship ba...
Oct 12, 2021
Explainer-What a U.S. debt ceiling extension means for bond markets
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gridlock over the U.S. debt ceiling may have been temporarily resolved, but a longer-term solution has also been deferred. Last week's truce appeased t...
Oct 12, 2021
Analysis-Iraqi voters spurn Iran's allies, but Tehran could still fight for clout
By John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Iran's allies in an election this week, but loosening the grip of Shi'ite militia from control of the sta...
Oct 12, 2021
Ex-Myanmar president says army tried to force him to cede power hours before coup
(Reuters) - Myanmar's deposed president testified on Tuesday that the military tried to force him to relinquish power hours before its Feb. 1 coup, warning him he could be seriously harmed if he refus...
Oct 12, 2021
Moderna's search for African site set to intensify - chairman
By Giselda Vagnoni and Emily Roe ROME (Reuters) - Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa could be potential locations for Moderna's planned vaccine factory in Africa, the U.S. drugmaker's co-founder and cha...
Oct 12, 2021
New Austrian leader under fire in parliament, mocked as Kurz's puppet
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Opposition parties attacked Austria's new Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Tuesday over his ties to his predecessor Sebastian Kurz, who quit over corruption a...
Oct 12, 2021
Indian troops kill five militants in Kashmir as hundreds of Hindus flee
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed at least five militants in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Tuesday as hundreds of Hindus flee the disputed Muslim-majority region aft...
Oct 12, 2021
Media veteran Alan Horn to retire as Disney Studios head
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's Alan Horn, who turned the company's studio business into a media powerhouse and oversaw blockbusters such as "Avengers:Endgame" and "Black Panther", is retiring at the end...
Oct 12, 2021
