Category Archives: Syndicated
Russian strategic document names strike weapons deployed in space as key military threat: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin approved a strategic document on Tuesday naming the creation and deployment of anti-missile and strike weapons in space as one of the main military threats ...
Jun 02, 2020
Italy’s opposition parties flout social distancing rules at rally in Rome
ROME (Reuters) - Italian opposition parties and hundreds of supporters defied social distancing rules on Tuesday to pack Rome's central streets in an anti-government protest rally. With more than 233,...
Jun 02, 2020
Austria presents design turning Hitler’s birthplace into police station
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria presented an architectural plan on Tuesday to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station in the hope of "neutralising" the space and ensuring it does n...
Jun 02, 2020
Duterte’s ‘draconian’ anti-terror bill alarms activists in Philippines
MANILA (Reuters) - Lawyers and human rights activists in the Philippines have raised the alarm over a new anti-terrorism bill pushed by the President Rodrigo Duterte, warning of draconian and arbitrar...
Jun 02, 2020
Philippines suspends scrapping of troop agreement with U.S.: minister
(Reuters) - The Philippines has suspended its decision to scrap a two-decade-old Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. "The abrogation of the Vi...
Jun 02, 2020
Reaction to revised Formula One calendar
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One announced on Tuesday it would start its delayed season in Austria on July 5 with eight races in Europe over the space of 10 weeks. It will be the first time Austria's Re...
Jun 02, 2020
Egypt’s wealth fund to develop Cairo Citadel district into tourist destination
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's antiquities authority is to transfer Cairo's historic Bab al-Azab district - with Ottoman-era architecture and the medieval Citadel overlooking the capital - to its sovereign...
Jun 02, 2020
Paris bans demo over black Frenchman who died in 2016 police operation
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris police banned on Tuesday a demonstration planned in memory of Adama Traore, a 24-year old black Frenchman who died in a 2016 police operation which some have likened to the dea...
Jun 02, 2020
Bank of America pledges $1 billion to address racial, economic inequality
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said on Tuesday it is making a $1 billion, four-year commitment to help communities address economic and racial inequality exacerbated by the COVID-19 global pandemic....
Jun 02, 2020
UK warns China: do not destroy the jewel of Hong Kong
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom warned Beijing on Tuesday to step back from the brink over an "authoritarian" national security law in Hong Kong that it said risked destroyi...
Jun 02, 2020
