Author Archives: Syndicated Content
MLB: League, players agree to 60-game season, starts in July
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) and its players' association agreed to a shortened 60-game 2020 season on Tuesday, ending weeks of heated talks between team owners and ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Singapore PM's estranged brother joins opposition party as election looms
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Singapore prime minister's brother, Lee Hsien Yang, said on Wednesday he had joined an opposition party that is competing against his sibling at the upcoming July 10 election...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Louisville police officer fired over fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - One of three officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators burst into her home in Louisville,...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Brazil suspends WhatsApp's new payments system
By Carolina Mandl and Isabel Versiani SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank effectively suspended a newly-launched system allowing users of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging service to ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
TV show on Trump-Comey clash now likely to air before November election
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A television show about the clash between former FBI director James Comey and U.S. President Donald Trump over Russian interference in the 2016 election is now likely to air be...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Trump aides begin discussions on Israel's West Bank annexation plan: sources
By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior aides to U.S. President Donald Trump began discussions on Tuesday on whether to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a gree...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Australia reports first COVID-19 death in more than a month
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state on Wednesday said a man in his 80s died overnight from the coronavirus, the country's first death from the virus in more than a month, as the ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Colombia extends coronavirus lockdown measures until July 15
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus will continue until July 15, President Ivan Duque said in a nightly broadcast on Tuesday. The Andean country has reported more ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
Popular Turkish TV drama inspires statues in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Residents of the Pakistani city of Lahore have erected statues to commemorate a medieval Turkish leader, a sign of the growing popularity, and cultural impact, of a televi...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
In Thailand, it's statues of democracy leaders that are disappearing
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Certain historical statues have been disappearing in Thailand, but they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by pr...
Thomson Reuters Jun 23, 2020
