Author Archives: Syndicated Content
WTA says Palermo Ladies Open will go on after player tests positive
(Reuters) - A player set to participate in the Palermo Ladies Open starting on Monday has tested positive for COVID-19 but the event which marks the return of the professional tennis season will conti...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Iran says it has detained U.S.-based opposition leader over 2008 bomb attack
(Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday that its intelligence forces have detained a U.S.-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a 2008 bombing that killed 14, and of plannin...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Motor racing: Absence of fans and eerie silence hang over weird British GP
By Alan Baldwin SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - A half-built hotel and empty grandstands provide the backdrop to the starting grid at Sunday's fan-free British Grand Prix but Silverstone circuit boss...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surge in July, worst in recent days
By Jake Spring BRASILIA (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest jumped 28% in July from a year ago, official data showed on Saturday, as some environmentalists warned a jump this...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Kenya Airways resumes international flights after virus curbs lifted
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya Airways resumed international flights on Saturday, heading to about 30 destinations for the first time since the routes were suspended in March due to the ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Three children among five killed in Nepal monsoon landslides
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Five people including three children were killed in two landslides in Nepal, raising to 175 the toll of dead since the monsoon season began in May, a home ministry official said ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Exclusive: ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch U.S. deal - sources
By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Fri...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Thousands march in Berlin to protest coronavirus curbs
BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Berlin on Saturday to protest against measures imposed in Germany to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying they violated people's rights and fr...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
Ten crushed to death in Indian crane collapse
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a state-run shipyard in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, a senior police officer said. ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020
South Africa's deputy finance minister asked to step aside over abuse of power claim
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo has been asked to step down by the governing African National Congress party's integrity commission for involving an elite...
Thomson Reuters Aug 01, 2020