Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Xi calls for improving disaster prevention as floods, landslides batter China
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called for improving the country's ability to prevent, mitigate and respond to natural disasters, after a string of deadly floods and landslide...
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MLB roundup: Christian Walker, Astros stun M's with 10th-inning rally
Christian Walker blasted a three-run, walk-off homer as the Houston Astros answered a three-run rally by the visiting Seattle Mariners in the top of the 10th with a five-run bottom half en route to a ...
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Israeli strikes kill nine in south Lebanon, state news reports
By Nazih Osseiran and Eman Abouhassira BEIRUT Aug 15 (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon's state news agency said. Seven people wer...
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Hungary to sink two barges near nuclear plant to raise Danube levels to ensure cooling
BUDAPEST, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Hungarian authorities will sink two barges in the Danube on Saturday to raise the water level at the Paks nuclear plant to avert a shutdown of one of its last two remainin...
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Spain disregarded Ceuta warnings before migrant rush, say border workers' unions
CEUTA, Spain, Aug 15 (Reuters) - In the weeks before a rush of more than 70,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, border workers warned Spain's central government that more people, spurred o...
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Edwin Diaz struggles again, but Dodgers hold off Brewers
Andy Pages hit a go-ahead home run in the fifth inning, right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto had nine strikeouts over six innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 3-1 victory over the visiting Milwauke...
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Crusading India state food safety chief targets Eternal, Swiggy, Zepto in sweeping crackdown
By Arpan Chaturvedi and Dhwani Pandya MUMBAI, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Maharashtra state's food safety chief has intensified a crackdown on the food and grocery industries, suspending the permits of 12 ware...
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Earthquake hits Spanish city of Granada, damages buildings and cars
MADRID, Aug 15 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck the southern Spanish city of Granada in the early hours of Saturday morning, with the regional government saying houses and cars were dam...
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Jets QB Geno Smith day-to-day after missing start
New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith was scratched from the team's preseason opener on Friday due to an injury, but the ailment isn't believed to be serious. ESPN reported that Smith was dealing with ...
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Funeral held for Australian Indigenous girl whose death sparked outback riots
SYDNEY, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Mourners gathered in Australia's Northern Territory capital Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a five-year-old Indigenous girl whose death in April shocked the nat...
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