Category Archives: Syndicated
‘We don’t know how IOC money will be spent’: Tokyo 2020 chief
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the first in history to be postponed, said on Friday they were not aware of detailed spending allocations for $800 million ...
May 15, 2020
First Hong Kong protester to admit ‘rioting’ gets four years’ jail
By Sharon Tam and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Hong Kong lifeguard, the first anti-government protester to plead guilty to the charge of rioting during last year's unrest, was sente...
May 15, 2020
Hungary ruling in Roma segregation case ‘unfair’: PM Orban
By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban on Friday said a Supreme Court ruling awarding damages to schoolchildren from the Roma minority who were put in separate clas...
May 15, 2020
Free movement across Italy to be allowed from June 3: draft decree
ROME (Reuters) - Italy is set to allow free travel across the country from June 3, according to a draft decree seen by Reuters on Friday, as the government moves to unwind the coronavirus lockdown and...
May 15, 2020
Turkey detains 38 over suspected links to armed attack: governor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have detained 38 people including the local head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in relation to an armed attack which killed two people in t...
May 15, 2020
Spain’s coronavirus death toll climbs by 138 on Friday: health ministry
(Reuters) - Spain's death toll from coronavirus registered its lowest increase since Monday as health authorities registered 138 new fatalities on Friday, the health ministry reported. The overall cor...
May 15, 2020
Delayed survey data blurs India’s coronavirus picture
By Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a nat...
May 15, 2020
Indonesia reports 490 new coronavirus cases, 33 new deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 490 new coronavirus infections and 33 new deaths, taking the total number of cases to 16,496 and deaths to 1,076, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said o...
May 15, 2020
Ethiopia migrants recall nightmare when 64 died in a metal container
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Silence gradually replaced the screams around Dejene Degefa as his fellow travelers suffocated one by one inside a locked metal container. He struggled to sta...
May 15, 2020
Check-up after check-in: Accor bets on online medicine for hotel rebound
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Accor , which runs hotels such as Ibis and Movenpick, said on Friday it would offer its clients free access to online medical consultations run by insurer AXA as it prepares...
May 15, 2020
