Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Factbox-Election promises of Thailand’s major parties
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's main political parties have differing ideologies and support bases but are proposing many similar policies ahead of a May 14 general election, focusing on winning over t...
May 10, 2023
Austria to join countries banning TikTok from government phones
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will join the growing list of countries banning Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government employees' work phones, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Wedne...
May 10, 2023
Hong Kong restricts foreign lawyers from national security cases
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature passed a legal amendment on Wednesday to prevent foreign lawyers working on national security cases, a restriction critics say will undermi...
May 10, 2023
Southeast Asian leaders pledge crackdown on human traffickers online scams
By Kate Lamb LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Southeast Asian leaders pledged on Wednesday to crack down on online scams operated by human traffickers to prey on vulnerable job seekers, particularly...
May 10, 2023
Column-Cromwell’s rule and the global economic outlook: Kemp
By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) - "Think it possible you may be mistaken", England's leader Oliver Cromwell demanded in a public letter to the Church of Scotland ahead of the battle of Dunbar in 1650. C...
May 10, 2023
Tunisian security officer wounded in synagogue shooting dies
TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian security officer wounded in Tuesday's shooting attack outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has died, TAP news agency reported on Wednesday citing hospital ...
May 10, 2023
Explainer-G7 Hiroshima Summit 2023: when is it, who will attend and what’s on agenda?
TOKYO (Reuters) - Leaders of seven of the world's richest nations meet next week at the G7 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima to discuss geopolitical, economic and climate issues as the war in U...
May 10, 2023
Biden heads to New York to talk debt ceiling, raise funds for re-election
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to make the case that Congress needs to move quickly to raise the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling in a Wednesday ...
May 10, 2023
Israel says hit Islamic Jihad members at Gaza launch site
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military launched a strike against members of the Islamic Jihad armed group at a rocket launch site in Gaza, the army said on Wednesday, as witnesses reported explosi...
May 10, 2023
Shell wins UK Supreme Court case on 2011 oil spill off Nigerian coast
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill they say had a devastatin...
May 10, 2023
