Author Archives: Syndicated Content
IMF says Lebanon should target subsidies at those most in need as reserves dwindle
DUBAI (Reuters) - Lebanon should revamp its subsidy system to reach those most in need and make better use of its rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves, the IMF said on Monday. Crushed by a moun...
Oct 19, 2020
Cycling: Jumbo-Visma launching Vos-led women's team in 2021
PARIS (Reuters) - Jumbo-Visma, one of the leading men's outfits, is starting a women's team for the 2021 season with Dutch great Marianne Vos in the squad, they said in a statement https://www.teamjum...
Oct 19, 2020
2020 U.S. ELECTION: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) - Early voting for the U.S. election kicks off in the battleground state of Florida with a record 28 million nationwide ballots already cast and just over two weeks remaining in the race for...
Oct 19, 2020
Tibetans' political leader sees growing U.S. support after meeting new envoy
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The head of the Tibetan government in exile said he met the new U.S. special coordinator on Tibet, whose appointment last week angered China, at the State Depa...
Oct 19, 2020
Exclusive: COVID-19, low prices push Peru coffee output down 10%
By Maytaal Angel and Marco Aquino LONDON/LIMA (Reuters) - Coffee output in Peru, the world's fifth largest arabica coffee exporter, has tumbled 10% this year due to low prices and migrant labour short...
Oct 19, 2020
Swiss report 8,737 new coronavirus cases over the weekend
ZURICH (Reuters) - The number of new coronavirus infections rose by 8,737 over the weekend, data https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epi...
Oct 19, 2020
With Instagram, hashtags and bitcoin, young Nigerians boost anti-police protests
By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - Ozioma Egemasi says Nigerian police slapped, whipped and struck him with the butt of a pistol when he refused to pay them a bribe. Then he heard them discuss whe...
Oct 19, 2020
Factbox: Key court victories as campaigns battle over U.S. presidential election
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Both sides in the U.S. presidential election are clashing in court over rules and procedures ahead of the Nov. 3 vote, as the coronavirus pandemic prompts hundreds ...
Oct 19, 2020
Chileans turn bakers and pizza makers as pandemic sparks business boom silver lining
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean Pedro Campos hatched a plan to bake and sell homemade sourdough bread to neighbors after riots in Santiago last year shuttered the restaurant where he wo...
Oct 19, 2020
Pakistan to unblock social media app TikTok after it vows to moderate content
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immoralit...
Oct 19, 2020
