Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Indian opposition, U.N. call for release of elderly priest held on terror charges
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition leaders on Wednesday called for the release of an elderly priest held on terror charges, one of 16 similar arrests rights groups say are politic...
Oct 21, 2020
Surviving the pandemic: blind Cuban piano tuner struggles to make ends meet
HAVANA (Reuters) - Flora Villareal, 67, part of a cohort of Cubans who graduated from an experimental piano tuning program for the blind and visually impaired in 1970, is still plying her trade half a...
Oct 21, 2020
Czech government shuts shops, curbs movement to stem COVID-19 surge
By Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government on Wednesday ordered most shops and services to close and sought to limit movement to essential trips only to curb Europe's fas...
Oct 21, 2020
Art galleries on the brink as pandemic lays waste to plans
By Barbara Lewis and Will Russell MUDDLES GREEN, England (Reuters) - This was to have been the year that an art gallery deep in the southern English countryside took the United States by storm with ex...
Oct 21, 2020
Kenyan documentary spotlights activist torn between family and the struggle
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan documentary "Softie" opens in 2013 with Njeri Mwangi standing in a doorway, light illuminating a sleepy toddler on her hip as her husband Boniface sieve...
Oct 21, 2020
Analysis: U.S. investment bankers' new pitch - Biden's tax hike
By Joshua Franklin and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) - Investment bankers keen to win lucrative assignments have a new pitch for U.S. corporate owners: hire us to sell your company now or pay at least twice...
Oct 21, 2020
U.S. banks sweat regulatory exposure from pandemic loans
By Lawrence Delevingne, Koh Gui Qing and Michelle Price BOSTON/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks that facilitated the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program at first saw the effort as a sma...
Oct 21, 2020
Vatican number two says deal with China on appointment of bishops will be renewed
By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on Wednesday that a controversial deal with Beijing on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in China wo...
Oct 21, 2020
Mosques in two French cities under police protection after threats: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - French Interior Minister Gerarld Darmanin said on Wednesday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police pr...
Oct 21, 2020
Some Polish school pupils to move to distance learning amid COVID-19 surge: PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will probably move older primary school students to distance learning, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday, as it tries to combat a big increase in COVID-19 c...
Oct 21, 2020
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