Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Russia jails man for 13 years for trying to pass secrets to CIA: Russian news agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trying to pass on secret information about Russia's Northern Fleet to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Russian news a...
Nov 20, 2020
Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church dies due to coronavirus
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died due to coronavirus, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic said on his official Instagram account on Friday. ...
Nov 20, 2020
Ukraine reports record daily coronavirus infections
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record of 14,575 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Friday, surpassing the previous day's record of 13,357. ...
Nov 20, 2020
COVID deals blow to Saudi Arabia's G20 summit ambitions
By Marwa Rashad and Raya Jalabi RIYADH/BEIRUT (Reuters) - When Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and a leading U.S. ally, took over the G20 presidency in December 2019, hopes in the kingdom w...
Nov 20, 2020
K-Pop's BTS marks year of the pandemic with 'BE' album, and single 'Life Goes On'
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean megaband BTS released their latest album "BE" on Friday and will perform the new single "Life Goes On" remotely for the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunda...
Nov 20, 2020
Lawyer suspended over will at heart of Singapore first family feud
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The daughter-in-law of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew has been temporarily suspended from legal practice after she was found guilty of misconduct in preparing and execu...
Nov 20, 2020
Exclusive: EU could pay over $10 billion for Pfizer and CureVac vaccines - source
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union could pay more than $10 billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and ...
Nov 20, 2020
Trump to host Michigan lawmakers as he presses dubious effort to overturn election
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House, as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate ...
Nov 20, 2020
Taiwan to start building new submarine fleet next week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will start work next week to build the first of eight new domestically-developed submarines, it said on Friday, a long-mooted project to strengthen the island's defences in t...
Nov 19, 2020
Ethiopia's Tigray rebels fire rockets into Bahir Dar city, regional government says
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A rocket attack by Ethiopia's Tigray rebel forces on the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region caused no damage, the regional government said on Friday. "The illegal TPLF grou...
Nov 19, 2020
