Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Algerian activists jailed for criticising authorities, rights group says
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has jailed three activists on charges including threatening national unity for criticising President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the judiciary, a group defending detainees sai...
May 20, 2020
U.S. travelers pick car rentals over flights for holidays: travel website Kayak
By Sanjana Shivdas (Reuters) - Travel website Kayak is seeing more demand for car rentals than air travel from customers looking to avoid crowds and stay closer to home as U.S. states reopen, Chief Ex...
May 20, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,528,235 coronavirus cases, 91,664 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday reported 1,528,235 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 23,405 cases from its previous count, and said that t...
May 20, 2020
Senate passes bill that could block Chinese firms from U.S. securities exchanges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday that could prevent some Chinese companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges unless they follow standards for U.S. audit...
May 20, 2020
Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel: supreme leader
(Reuters) - Iran will support any nation or group that fights Israel, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday. "We will support and assist any nation or any group anywhere who opposes ...
May 20, 2020
Swedish antibody study shows long road to immunity as COVID-19 toll mounts
By Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish study found that just 7.3 percent of Stockholmers developed COVID-19 antibodies by late April, which could fuel concern that a deci...
May 20, 2020
Mexico orders probe into alleged graft linked to ex-president
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday ordered an investigation into allegations the former government irregularly awarded lucrative contracts to a firm rep...
May 20, 2020
Colombian police use drones to detect high body temperatures
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - It is not a bird, a plane or Superman: the aircraft humming in the skies above Colombia's capital Bogota are instead police drones that are meant to detect peop...
May 20, 2020
Colombia considers unprecedented intervention in oil pipeline tariffs
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government could make an unprecedented intervention in oil pipeline tariffs, which private producers have criticized as too high, the president of the country's National ...
May 20, 2020
Hush descends on Havana as street performers vanish in wake of tourists
By Nelson Gonzalez and Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - With her buoyant colonial-style dresses and witty songs about the roasted peanuts she sells, street vendor Lyssett Perez had become something of a...
May 20, 2020
