Category Archives: Syndicated
French court sentences homegrown militant to 30 years in prison for crimes in Syria
By Tangi Salan PARIS (Reuters) - A Frenchman who converted to Islam and went abroad to fight for Islamic State was sentenced by a Paris court on Friday to 30 years in prison in France's first successf...
Jul 03, 2020
Small tailings dam collapses in Ecuador, communities denounce pollution
QUITO (Reuters) - A small tailings dam associated with a mine run by Ecuadorean firm Austro Gold has collapsed, Ecuador's government said on Friday, sending mining waste into a nearby river. A retaini...
Jul 03, 2020
Brazil court orders eviction of illegal gold miners from Yanomami reservation
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A federal court ordered the Brazilian government on Friday to expel an estimated 20,000 illegal gold miners from the Yanomami indigenous reservation to protect one of the most iso...
Jul 03, 2020
Ecuador indigenous group holds hostage police, official; demand return of corpse amid pandemic
CARACAS (Reuters) - An indigenous group in the Ecuadorean Amazon has taken two police officers and a state official hostage to demand authorities return the body of a community leader who according to...
Jul 03, 2020
Ryanair flight makes emergency landing in Greece
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Ryanair flight en route from Berlin to Athens made an emergency landing at Thessaloniki airport on Friday with 164 people on board, Greek authorities said. The flight issued a dis...
Jul 03, 2020
Canada suspends its extradition treaty with Hong Kong, eyes immigration boost
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in the wake of new Chinese national security legislation and could boost immigration from the former Br...
Jul 03, 2020
Cameroon holds first peace talks with main separatist insurgents
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Representatives of Cameroon's government held talks this week with the main leaders of an Anglophone separatist insurgency for the first time since the conflict began in 2017, a se...
Jul 03, 2020
Cyprus watchdog imposes Commerzbank fine for deals of defunct bank
(Reuters) - Cyprus's securities regulator on Friday imposed a 650,000 euro ($730,795.00) fine on Germany's Commerzbank for transactions ordered by a now defunct local bank whose demise featured in a f...
Jul 03, 2020
Latifi finally makes it past first practice
SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) - Nicholas Latifi declared himself a proper Formula One driver on Friday after the Canadian rookie finally made it past first free practice at a grand prix weekend. The Wi...
Jul 03, 2020
Golf: DeChambeau motors into share of early lead in Detroit
(Reuters) - Bryson DeChambeau birdied his final hole to cap an error free five-under 67 and grab a share of the early second round lead with three others at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit on F...
Jul 03, 2020
