Category Archives: Syndicated
WR Lee becomes seventh Patriots player to opt out
New England wide receiver Marqise Lee became the seventh Patriots player to opt out of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus. No team has had as many players choose not play this fall. "This is a big...
Aug 01, 2020
Horse racing: Champion jockey Mellor dies aged 83
(Reuters) - Three-times champion jockey Stan Mellor - the first to ride 1,000 winners over jumps during a celebrated career - has died aged 83, the British media reported on Saturday. Mellor, the cham...
Aug 01, 2020
LATAM Airlines set to fire at least 2,700 workers in Brazil: reports
BRASILIA (Reuters) - LATAM Airlines is poised to fire at least 2,700 workers in Brazil, including pilots, starting with a voluntary redundancy process slated to commence next week, O Globo and O Estad...
Aug 01, 2020
Motor racing: Hamilton takes pole for home British GP
SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - Six times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton put Mercedes on pole position for his home British Grand Prix in a track record time on Saturday. The 35-year-old, ...
Aug 01, 2020
Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok: NYT
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy ByteDance-owned TikTok, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing a source. The discussions between Microsoft and TikTok were first reported earlier o...
Aug 01, 2020
WTA says Palermo Ladies Open will go on after player tests positive
(Reuters) - A player set to participate in the Palermo Ladies Open starting on Monday has tested positive for COVID-19 but the event which marks the return of the professional tennis season will conti...
Aug 01, 2020
Iran says it has detained U.S.-based opposition leader over 2008 bomb attack
(Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday that its intelligence forces have detained a U.S.-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a 2008 bombing that killed 14, and of plannin...
Aug 01, 2020
Motor racing: Absence of fans and eerie silence hang over weird British GP
By Alan Baldwin SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - A half-built hotel and empty grandstands provide the backdrop to the starting grid at Sunday's fan-free British Grand Prix but Silverstone circuit boss...
Aug 01, 2020
Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surge in July, worst in recent days
By Jake Spring BRASILIA (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest jumped 28% in July from a year ago, official data showed on Saturday, as some environmentalists warned a jump this...
Aug 01, 2020
Kenya Airways resumes international flights after virus curbs lifted
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya Airways resumed international flights on Saturday, heading to about 30 destinations for the first time since the routes were suspended in March due to the ...
Aug 01, 2020
