Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sweden passes law to make it easier to change legal gender
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's parliament on Wednesday passed a law that will make it easier for people to change their legal gender and lower the age at which it is allowed to 16 years from 18 years,...
Apr 17, 2024
Italy's ruling coalition accused of attacking abortion rights
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's right-wing ruling coalition faces opposition accusations of trying to limit abortion rights with a parliamentary amendment that could make it easier for anti-abortion groups t...
Apr 17, 2024
Germany launches urgent appeal to bolster Ukraine's starved air defences against Russia
By Andrey Sychev and Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has appealed to European Union and NATO member states to bolster Ukraine's air defences as quickly as possible as Russian missiles pounde...
Apr 17, 2024
UN Security Council to vote Friday on Palestinian UN membership
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for full U.N. membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel ally...
Apr 17, 2024
UN agency says staff, other Gaza detainees subjected to ill-treatment
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said some of its staff members and other people detained by Israeli forces in Gaza were subjected to ill-treatment, including severe beat...
Apr 17, 2024
Swiss vote to ban swastika in crackdown on extremist symbols
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's parliament on Wednesday approved a motion to ban the Nazis' swastika emblem as part of a crackdown on extremist symbols in the neutral country. The lower house of parl...
Apr 17, 2024
Woman wheels corpse into Brazil bank to sign for loan
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on Wednes...
Apr 17, 2024
Widow of Russia's Alexei Navalny hires bodyguard after hammer attack on activist
LONDON (Reuters) - Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said in an interview with Time magazine published on Wednesday that she had hired a bodyguard following a...
Apr 17, 2024
On a Greek island, volunteers remake burial site for refugees lost at sea
By ELIAS MARCOU LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Under an overcast sky on the Greek island of Lesbos, Afghan asylum-seeker Safika placed a red rose on the grave of a refugee who died trying to reach Europe....
Apr 17, 2024
Key Brazilian economic activity index rises for fourth straight month
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Economic activity in Brazil rose for the fourth straight month in February, a central bank index showed on Wednesday. The IBC-Br economic activity index, considered a leading ind...
Apr 17, 2024
