Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fifth seed Tsitsipas swats aside Cuevas to reach third round
PARIS (Reuters) - Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas produced a clinical performance to outclass Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-1 6-4 6-2 on Thursday and advance to the French Open third round. The 22-year-old G...
Oct 01, 2020
UK's Queen Elizabeth cancels big palace events for the year
(Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been forced to cancel all large-scale events at her Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle homes for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the p...
Oct 01, 2020
Turkey and Poland added to England's COVID-19 quarantine list
LONDON (Reuters) - Travellers arriving in England from Turkey and Poland will have to self-isolate for 14 days from early on Saturday, Britain's transport minister Grant Shapps said as he expanded the...
Oct 01, 2020
Human rights lawyers sue Trump administration over 'unconstitutional' ICC sanctions
By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Human rights lawyers launched a legal challenge on Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of the wo...
Oct 01, 2020
Muguruza eases into French Open third round
PARIS (Reuters) - Former champion Garbine Muguruza breezed into the French Open third round with a routine 6-3 6-2 victory over Czech Kristyna Pliskova on Thursday. It was a welcome stroll on court Su...
Oct 01, 2020
Pandemic shows need to rework bank capital buffers, says EU
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted flaws in the process by which banks can draw down from their capital buffers in a crisis to avoid crimping the flow of credit, a s...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. says won't hesitate to act against threats to personnel in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not hesitate to act to protect its personnel in Iraq, where it considers Iranian-backed militias that have attacked U.S. targets to be the country's "sing...
Oct 01, 2020
Over 1,000 U.S.-bound Hondurans cross illegally into Guatemala
By Sofia Menchu and Gustavo Palencia GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Honduran migrants bidding to reach the United States on Thursday burst through a border security cordon to e...
Oct 01, 2020
Britain's National Health Service targets net zero emissions by 2040
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's National Health Service pledged on Thursday to become the world's first healthcare system to cut carbon emissions to net zero, hoping to achieve that by 2...
Oct 01, 2020
Libyan professor also mends cars and sells dates to make ends meet
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - When he is not teaching Arabic at Misrata University, professor Omar Mesbah al-Maghreby manages a car repair workshop in the garage of his home in northern Libya and spends ...
Oct 01, 2020
