Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Athletics-Semenya in last ditch bid to qualify for Olympics
By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Caster Semenya will make a last-ditch attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games when she races over 5000m at a meeting in Belgium this week. The 30-year-old South ...
Jun 27, 2021
Suns outlast Clippers 84-80, take 3-1 lead in West finals
By Beth Harris LOS ANGELES - Neither team could make a shot. The ball bounced crazily on and around the rim, but rarely went in. In timeouts, the Suns only talked defense. The Clippers deliberately mi...
Jun 27, 2021
Australia urges Samoa's parties to work on forming government
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia urged Samoa's political parties on Saturday to work together to form a government after a top court in the Pacific nation dealt a blow to a prime minister who has refus...
Jun 27, 2021
Freed U.S. editor says he was tortured in Myanmar
(Reuters) - Myanmar security forces punched, slapped and beat a U.S. journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after being deported to the United States follow...
Jun 27, 2021
Airbus offers to assemble Eurofighter in Switzerland to win $6.5 billion deal -report
ZURICH (Reuters) - Airbus has offered to assemble Eurofighter aircraft in Switzerland if Bern picks it for a 6 billion Swiss franc ($6.5 billion) defence contract, a top salesman at the consortium tol...
Jun 27, 2021
UK health department to investigate leak of Hancock footage, says minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health ministry will investigate how a recording of former minister Matt Hancock kissing and embracing his aide was released to the media and forced his resignation, North...
Jun 27, 2021
Retired Israeli Supreme Court chief to head inquiry on lethal stampede
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former president of Israel's Supreme Court was appointed on Sunday to head its state commission of inquiry into a stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April that killed 45 p...
Jun 27, 2021
Iran says nuclear site images won't be given to IAEA as deal has expired
DUBAI (Reuters) -The speaker of Iran's parliament said on Sunday Tehran will never hand over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites to the U.N. nuclear watchdog as a monitoring agreement wit...
Jun 27, 2021
Athletics-Hammer thrower Berry turns away from U.S. flag during anthem
EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag while on the podium for the event's medal ceremony at the U.S. Olympic trials on Saturday but said her move was ...
Jun 27, 2021
Olympics-Many Japan schools opt not to take children to Olympic Games -media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Many schools near Tokyo are shunning Olympic and Paralympic events, cancelling more than half the 280,000 tickets reserved for them amid worries that the Games could further spread C...
Jun 27, 2021
