Author Archives: Syndicated Content
France, partners seek urgent aid to help Lebanese army, says French official
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - World powers will seek to raise tens of millions of dollars in emergency aid for the Lebanese army at a meeting on Thursday, aiming to prevent the military from collaps...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Confluent targets over $8 billion valuation in U.S. IPO
(Reuters) - Event streaming platform Confluent Inc is looking to raise as much as $759 million through a U.S. initial public offering, targeting a valuation of about $8.3 billion, according to a regul...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Palestinian woman shot after attacking Israeli troops: army
HIZMA, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot a Palestinian motorist on Wednesday who tried to ram them in the occupied West Bank and then brandished a knife, the Israeli military said. The Palesti...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
EU agrees additional sanctions on Belarus after forced Ryanair landing: EU diplomat
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday agreed additional sanctions on Belarus in response to the forced landing in May of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident journali...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
U.S. envoy for North Korea to visit South Korea for three-way meet: Kyodo
SEOUL (Reuters) - The newly appointed U.S. envoy for North Korea, Sung Kim, will make his first visit to neighbouring South Korea this week for a possible three-way meeting with counterparts from Seou...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Irish house price growth accelerates, up 4.5% year-on-year in April
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish residential property prices rose at the fastest annual pace for almost two-and-a-half years in April, up 4.5% year-on-year compared with a rise of 3.5% the previous month, Cen...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Germany set to end work from home obligation, Merkel aide tells weekly
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not extend beyond the end of June a rule which forces companies to allow working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staf...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Bosnian woman awarded 'Green Nobel' for fighting to save river
By Daria Sito-Sucic KRUSCICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Maida Bilal endured being beaten and harassed when she spent more than 500 days guarding the site of a planned mini hydropower plant on Bosnia's Krusci...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
Tennis-Venus, Murray handed Wimbledon wild cards
LONDON (Reuters) - Former champions Venus Williams and Andy Murray were named in Wimbledon's initial list of wildcards on Wednesday for this month's grasscourt Grand Slam. American Williams, who will ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
The French campaigner rebuilding LGBT+ community's trust in police
By Lea Guedj ORLEANS, France (Reuters) - Christophe Desportes-Guilloux is old enough to remember a time, decades ago, when French police would raid nightclubs and detain people like him for being gay....
Thomson Reuters Jun 16, 2021
