Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Senior PLO official Erekat taken to Israeli hospital after COVID-19 condition worsens
By Ali Sawafta JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Israel on Sunday for treatment of a worsening case of COVID-19, the Pales...
Oct 18, 2020
Hungarian restaurant reinvents the wheel for social distancing
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to gen...
Oct 18, 2020
Ireland to impose nationwide COVID-19 curbs on Monday: minister
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will bring in "decisive" nationwide COVID-19 restrictions on Monday but will stop short of reintroducing the kind of lockdown imposed earlier this year, Higher Education Min...
Oct 18, 2020
Spanish republicans take to streets to call for prosecution of former king
By Marcelo del Pozo SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Waving red, purple and yellow republican flags, demonstrators in 24 Spanish cities on Sunday called for the prosecution of the former king Juan Carlos wh...
Oct 18, 2020
Bolivians hope to restore political stability in Sunday presidential election
By Marcelo Rochabrun LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday in an election many hope can restore stability to an Andean country that was plunged into turmoil after a fraught and even...
Oct 18, 2020
Tribute planned for beheaded teacher in France; 11th person arrested
PARIS (Reuters) - An 11th person was detained on Sunday, police said, as authorities investigated the murder of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who was beheaded by a suspected Islamist in an attack tha...
Oct 18, 2020
Economy, pandemic overshadow climate for young U.S. voters
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The two dozen students who signed up for air pollution expert James Goldstene's advanced environmental studies class all say they are deeply passiona...
Oct 18, 2020
Young U.S. poll workers brace for Election Day as virus fears keep elders home
By Julia Harte and John Whitesides (Reuters) - After scrambling to replace an aging force of poll workers most at risk from the coronavirus, U.S. election officials face the challenge of running the N...
Oct 18, 2020
Protesters take over Bangkok streets in new show of defiance
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok on Sunday, defying a ban on protests for the ...
Oct 18, 2020
Top Christian cleric urges Lebanese leaders to agree on government
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric urged Lebanese leaders to stop delaying talks on forming a government in a scathing Sunday sermon in which he blamed them for the country's financial ...
Oct 18, 2020
