Category Archives: Syndicated
Lebanon protesters burn roads, clash with security in second night of unrest
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese protesters set fire to roadways and clashed with security forces in a second night of unrest on Friday, according to witnesses and Lebanese media. Protests erupted on Thurs...
Jun 12, 2020
Masks significantly reduce infection risk, likely preventing thousands of COVID-19 cases -study
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Requiring the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in areas at the epicenter of the global pandemic may have prevented tens of thousands of infect...
Jun 12, 2020
Soccer team mobs coffin of murdered Mexican teen after moving tribute
By Ivan Sanchez VINCENTE CAMALOTE, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican soccer teammates of Alexander Martinez, a 16-year-old whose murder this week was blamed on police, mobbed his wooden coffin this week afte...
Jun 12, 2020
Report: WNBA proposal includes full salaries for ’20
An updated proposal from WNBA owners for the 2020 season includes full salaries for a 22-game regular season, ESPN reported Friday. The first WNBA proposal went to players on June 4 and offered player...
Jun 12, 2020
Chile’s military moves through shadows to spot coronavirus curfew breakers
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The armored vehicle rumbles through the near-empty, darkened streets of a scruffy neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago, bristling with heavily-armed troop...
Jun 12, 2020
New York City oversight bill to force police to detail surveillance tools
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - New York politicians are expected to vote next week to force the city's police force to divulge the surveillance technology it uses, one of many reforms of law enforcemen...
Jun 12, 2020
Fed’s Bostic calls for end to racism, says Fed can play a role
(Reuters) - Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic, the Fed's only African American policymaker, on Friday issued an impassioned call for an end to racism and laid out ways the U.S. cen...
Jun 12, 2020
Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab says sets up COVID-19 treatment centre
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country, and said the disease posed a grave threat, citing international hea...
Jun 12, 2020
Congo’s gold being smuggled out by the tonne, U.N. report finds
(Reuters) - Gold production in Democratic Republic of Congo continues to be systematically underreported while tonnes of the precious metal is smuggled into global supply chains through its eastern ne...
Jun 12, 2020
Golf: Spieth keeps his cool to overcome hiccup at Colonial
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Jordan Spieth's decision to work on his mental game during the PGA Tour's three-month break paid off on Friday as he recovered from a late ugly stretch at the Charles Schwa...
Jun 12, 2020
