Category Archives: Syndicated
Palestinians rally against Bahrain-Israel normalisation
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli, U.S., Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries' moves to norma...
Sep 12, 2020
Highlights: Key comments as historic Afghan-Taliban peace talks begin
DOHA (Reuters) - Afghan government representatives and Taliban insurgents, along with U.S. diplomats and other dignitaries gathered in Doha on Saturday for the start of historic peace talks aimed at e...
Sep 12, 2020
Explainer: Afghan-Taliban peace talks: who, what, where and why
KABUL (Reuters) - Talks seeking to end 19 years of war in Afghanistan started this weekend, with an opening ceremony on Saturday. Negotiators representing the Kabul government and Taliban insurgents a...
Sep 12, 2020
Austria’s Kurz reiterates opposition to taking in asylum seekers from Moria
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his go...
Sep 12, 2020
European economy is recovering better than we had feared: Scholz
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European economy is recovering much better than many had feared at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Saturday, adding that gove...
Sep 12, 2020
Factbox: Five of the largest wildfires ever to hit the U.S. West
(Reuters) - More than 100 wildfires have ripped through parts of the U.S. West in recent weeks, consuming areas nearly the size of New Jersey, killing at least 24 people and forcing hundreds of thousa...
Sep 12, 2020
ECB does not target the exchange rate, but it is an important variable: de Guindos
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank does not target the euro exchange rate in its policy, but it is an important variable and the bank monitors it when assessing the effects on price stabilit...
Sep 12, 2020
Showers and a place to sleep: Portland Convention Center shelters wildfire evacuees
By Deborah Bloom PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Joey Slate was getting kidney dialysis treatment at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, which has been transformed into a major evacuation center for ...
Sep 12, 2020
‘It’s exhausting’: American families stumble through first weeks of virtual school
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Meredith Kablick sat next to her five-year-old son Peter at home in Cheverly, Maryland, as he logged on to a Zoom video call for his first week of kindergarten at a Fre...
Sep 12, 2020
On election eve, several thousand join anti-Kremlin rally in Russian Far East
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several thousand people gathered in Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for what has become a regular weekly protest against the Kremlin since the region's popular g...
Sep 12, 2020
