Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Olympics: Domestic sponsors agree to extend contracts for delayed Tokyo games
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Thursday that all 68 domestic sponsors for the Summer Olympics agreed in principle to extend their contracts for the delayed games. The Tokyo Olympics h...
Dec 24, 2020
Anti-Myanmar hate speech flares in Thailand over virus
By Panarat Thepgumpanat, Shoon Naing and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - "Wherever you see Myanmar people, shoot them down," read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases am...
Dec 24, 2020
Ukraine coronavirus cases rise past one million
KYIV (Reuters) - A total of 1.001 million coronavirus cases has been registered in Ukraine as of Dec. 24, with 17,395 deaths and 631,435 people recovered, Ukrainian health minister Maksym Stepanov sai...
Dec 24, 2020
Iran foreign minister dismisses Trump's tweet that Tehran behind attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
(Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's allegations that Iran was behind the recent rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. "Putting your own citi...
Dec 24, 2020
Thailand confirms 67 new coronavirus infections
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand confirmed 67 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, of which nine were imported from overseas, the public health ministry said. All but three of the 58 locally transmitte...
Dec 23, 2020
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Singapore confirms first case of new coronavirus variant Singapore confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus variant fou...
Dec 23, 2020
Kuroda says BOJ ready to take steps to make stimulus more sustainable
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Thursday the central bank is ready to take new steps to make its massive stimulus programme more effective and sustainable in an upcomi...
Dec 23, 2020
Nigeria school abductions sparked by cattle feuds, not extremism, officials say
By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - The kidnap of 344 schoolboys in northwest Nigeria had the appearance of an Islamist militant attack. There was even a video purporting to show some of the boys w...
Dec 23, 2020
Frightening drive through South Dakota blizzard caught on camera
(Reuters) - A video taken by a meteorologist in South Dakota and posted to social media on Wednesday shows twenty seconds of a frightening drive through a heavy blizzard. A thick grey fills the view i...
Dec 23, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 32,195 - RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 32,195 to 1,587,115, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Thursday. The repo...
Dec 23, 2020
