Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iran clears oil spill in northern Gulf region, IRNA agency reports
(Reuters) - Iranian teams have cleaned up an oil slick near field in the northern region of the Gulf that had extended over a six-square-km (2.3 square mile) area, an Iranian maritime official said on...
Aug 01, 2020
Indonesia reports 1,560 new coronavirus cases, 62 deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 1,560 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the total in the Southeast Asian country to 109,936, data from the country's COVID-19 task force showed. I...
Aug 01, 2020
Apple’s Taiwan suppliers, Samsung apply for India’s local smartphone scheme
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple Inc's Taiwan contract manufacturers Foxconn , Wistron Corp and Pegatron Corp have applied for India's $6.5 billion scheme to boost local smartphone manufacturing, the count...
Aug 01, 2020
Hurricane Isaias strengthens slightly as it bears down on Florida
(Reuters) - Hurricane Isaias strengthened slightly as it tore past the Bahamas on Saturday, bearing down on Florida and expected to approach the southeast of the state later in the day before travelin...
Aug 01, 2020
Thousands protest against Kremlin in Russian far east for fourth weekend
KHABAROVSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for the fourth weekend in a row, protesting at President Vladimir Putin's handling o...
Aug 01, 2020
UAE official tells Turkey to stop meddling in Arab affairs over Libya
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs said on Saturday that Turkey should stop interfering in Arab affairs, criticising comments on Libya made by Turkey's de...
Aug 01, 2020
Palermo Open marks return of professional tours
By Sudipto Ganguly (Reuters) - A handful of prominent late withdrawals may have taken some of the sheen off the Palermo Ladies Open but the importance of the claycourt event is not lost on the sport a...
Aug 01, 2020
The revolution will be stencilised: ‘Thailand’s Banksy’ won’t back down
By Chalinee Thirasupa BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai political street artist who goes by the name "Headache Stencil" prefers to keep his true identity anonymous, but he is pretty sure that authorities k...
Aug 01, 2020
Russia plans mass vaccination against coronavirus from October, RIA reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus in October, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Saturday, RIA news agency reported. The m...
Aug 01, 2020
Ukraine police kill man after hostage-taking, official says
KYIV (Reuters) - A man who had taken a senior police officer hostage a week ago and then escaped was killed by police special forces in central Ukraine early on Saturday when he took a new hostage and...
Aug 01, 2020
