Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Greece appoints new minister to handle wildfire aftermath
ATHENS (Reuters - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday appointed a new minister in charge of recovery from natural disasters in a bid to defuse growing anger over the struggle to curb wi...
Aug 13, 2021
Taiwan expects fastest growth in a decade this year on export boom
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's economy will grow at its fastest pace in more than a decade in 2021, the statistics office said on Friday, upgrading its outlook on a strong rebound in exports for the tech...
Aug 13, 2021
Russia reports record-high COVID-19 deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported a record high 815 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours on Friday, but Moscow's mayor said hospitalisations from the disease in the capital had halved over...
Aug 13, 2021
India's Rahul Gandhi says blocked by Twitter for political reasons
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party, slammed Twitter on Friday for blocking a tweet over the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, saying the pla...
Aug 13, 2021
COVID-19 curbs seen widening Indonesia's trade surplus in July: Reuters poll
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's trade surplus is expected to show an expansion in July after the government imposed mobility restrictions to control a spike in COVID-19 cases, squeezing exports and im...
Aug 13, 2021
Taliban detain veteran militia chief Khan in Afghanistan's Herat - official
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents detained veteran militia commander Mohammad Ismail Khan on Friday after they seized the western city of Herat, a provincial council member said. Khan, who has been...
Aug 13, 2021
U.N. urges Afghanistan's neighbours to keep borders open as crisis looms
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency called on Afghanistan's neighbours to keep borders open as Taliban insurgent advances heightened the country's crisis. "An inability to seek safety...
Aug 13, 2021
Crypto platform Poly Network rewards hacker with $500,000 'bug bounty'
By Alun John and Tom Westbrook HONG KONG (Reuters) - Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had offered the hacker or hac...
Aug 13, 2021
France's Macron to boycott U.N. racism conference on concerns over anti-Semitism
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will not attend this year's United Nations' conference aimed at tackling racism, citing concerns over anti-semitism, his office said on Friday. "Conc...
Aug 13, 2021
First Hong Kong election under revamped system to be largely uncontested
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pro-Beijing candidates are running uncontested for most seats in a Hong Kong election committee tasked with choosing the city's leader, with the pro-democracy camp almost absent,...
Aug 13, 2021
