Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Death toll from rains in southern Brazil climbs to 66, over 100 still missing
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people ...
May 05, 2024
Gulf bourses end higher as Fed cut hopes rise
By Md Manzer Hussain (Reuters) - Stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Sunday, led by the Qatar index, after slowing U.S. jobs growth in April raised hopes of early interest rate cuts by the U.S. ...
May 05, 2024
South Africa inquiry blames authorities for neglect leading to deadly fire
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder, dru...
May 05, 2024
Gaza ceasefire talks continue in Cairo, Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas leaders held a second day of truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Sunday, with no apparent progress reported as the Islamist group maintained ...
May 05, 2024
Slowing global economy to mean smaller revenue bump in Australian budget
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global economic weakness and a slowing domestic economy were among the reasons Australia will report a smaller revenue increase in its federal budget for the year ended June 30 comp...
May 05, 2024
Hamas claims responsibility for attack on Israel-Gaza border crossing, casualties reported
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza that local media reports said resulted in...
May 05, 2024
Poland wants best ties with US no matter who's in power, minister says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wants "the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report b...
May 05, 2024
Four Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli strike on border village
AMMAN (Reuters) - Four members of a Lebanese family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said. They said the famil...
May 05, 2024
Berkshire's Brooks Running CEO sees China, Europe as growth areas
By Jonathan Stempel OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - The new chief executive of Brooks Running said the running shoe maker owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway views China and Europe as growth areas fo...
May 05, 2024
Ex-US Capitol cop, Jan. 6 rioter's runs for Congress illustrate a divided America
By Richard Cowan ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland (Reuters) - A former U.S. Capitol police officer who defended lawmakers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and a man who served time in prison for joining the mob...
May 05, 2024
