Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Explainer-Why are Facebook and Instagram ending news access in Canada?
By Samrhitha A (Reuters) - Meta Platforms plans to cut off access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a new law requiring internet giants to pay news publishers takes effect...
Jun 26, 2023
Reports of fighting in Sudan’s southeast after RSF advance in Khartoum
(Reuters) - Sudan's army confirmed on Monday that the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had taken the main base of a well-equipped police brigade in Khartoum and there were reports of fighting spreadin...
Jun 26, 2023
Russia’s Prigozhin in his own words on the ‘mutiny’
By Darya Korsunskaya and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday, in his first public comments since ending a one-day mutiny by his Wagner force ...
Jun 26, 2023
Spain weathers scorching temperatures as heatwaves become more frequent
MADRID (Reuters) - Areas of southern Spain such as Seville and Cordoba registered scorching temperatures of up to 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 Fahrenheit) on Monday as the first heatwave of the summer hi...
Jun 26, 2023
Kering snaps up fragrance label Creed for new beauty division
PARIS (Reuters) - Gucci-owner Kering said on Monday it had struck a deal to buy high-end French fragrance label Creed, its first acquisition since flagging intentions earlier this year to create an in...
Jun 26, 2023
John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100
(Reuters) - Nobel laureate John Goodenough, a pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries that today power millions of electric vehicles around the globe, died on Sunday just a month short of ...
Jun 26, 2023
‘We didn’t want to overthrow government’ – Prigozhin, in first comments since mutiny
(Reuters) - Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that a one-day mutiny by his Wagner force had been intended not to overthrow Russia's government but to register a protest over wh...
Jun 26, 2023
UK’s Cleverly: Prigozhin’s rebellion is an unprecedented challenge to Russia’s Putin
LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Monday the aborted mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenary group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, represented an unprecedented challenge to Rus...
Jun 26, 2023
Lack of funds risks Europe missing climate goals, auditors say
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is at risk of failing to meet its 2030 climate change targets, owing to uncertainty over whether sufficient funds are being invested in the low-c...
Jun 26, 2023
Israel approves thousands of building permits in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's nationalist-religious government approved the construction of 5,700 additional housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, despite U.S. pressu...
Jun 26, 2023
