Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Germany reopens hate speech, gun law debates after shisha bar killings
By Joseph Nasr and Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's government faced calls to toughen gun ownership laws and step up efforts to track far-right sympathizers, after the suspect in one of it...
Feb 21, 2020
Iran confirms 13 more coronavirus cases, two deaths: Health Ministry
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran confirmed 13 more new coronavirus cases and two deaths among the group of new cases, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a tweet on Friday. The new cases comprise...
Feb 21, 2020
Politicians become the punchline as Kenya's comedy scene booms
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Whenever a more risque line shocks his audience into silence, Kenyan comic Brian Onjoro knows he can rescue his set with a sure-fire punchline: the country's l...
Feb 21, 2020
Iran faces global anti-terrorism financing watchdog blacklist: sources
By John Irish and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog is likely to place Iran on its blacklist on Friday after it failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing ...
Feb 21, 2020
China’s Hubei to add virus cases back to tally after methodology change
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, said on Friday it will add back some cases to its tally of the disease, after subtracting 279 cases as part of a ...
Feb 21, 2020
Ireland's Fianna Fail, Fine Gael to meet for initial government talks
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - The leaders of Ireland's Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two of the three largest parties to emerge from a Feb. 8 election, will meet early next week for what they desc...
Feb 21, 2020
Italian tests positive for coronavirus, two more cases suspected
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian national has tested positive for the new coronavirus after meeting a friend who had recently returned from China, the northern Lombardy region said on Friday. It is the fi...
Feb 21, 2020
Pro-North Korea daily praises Oscar-winning 'Parasite' for 'exposing' South Korea's reality
SEOUL (Reuters) - A pro-North Korea daily praised Academy Awards best picture-winning South Korean movie "Parasite" on Friday, calling it a masterpiece that "starkly exposed the reality" of the rich-p...
Feb 21, 2020
U.N.-led Libya ceasefire talks will resume on Friday in Geneva: U.N. spokesman
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will on Friday host a new rounds of ceasefire talks between Libya's warring parties fighting over the capital Tripoli, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday. On Tuesday...
Feb 21, 2020
Russia calls reports of Syrians fleeing Idlib en masse for Turkey false
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defense Ministry on Friday said reports that hundreds of thousands of Syrians were fleeing Idlib in the direction of Turkey were false and urged Ankara to allow Idlib resid...
Feb 21, 2020
