Author Archives: Syndicated Content
European officials to begin Lebanon graft questioning next week -minister
BEIRUT (Reuters) - European investigators will arrive in Lebanon on January 16 as part of a cross-border probe into alleged fraud by the Mediterranean country's central bank governor Riad Salameh, Leb...
Jan 11, 2023
Chinese health officials exchange views with WHO on COVID – Commission
BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese health officials exchanged views with the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday on COVID-19 via a video conference, China's National Health Commission said in...
Jan 11, 2023
Factbox-Flights, airports affected by U.S. system outage
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. flights were grounded or delayed on Wednesday as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage, with passengers told to check with airlines for upd...
Jan 11, 2023
French soccer federation president Le Graet suspended from duties – BFM
PARIS(Reuters) - Noel Le Graet, the president of France's FFF soccer federation has been suspended from his duties and Vice Chairman Philippe Diallo was named acting interim Chairman, BFM television s...
Jan 11, 2023
U.S. first lady Jill Biden to have surgery to remove skin lesion
By Andrea Shalal BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - First lady Jill Biden, accompanied by U.S. President Joe Biden, traveled to a military hospital on Wednesday for surgery to remove a lesion discovered during...
Jan 11, 2023
French unions gear up for fight against delayed retirement
By Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - French unions and opposition parties on Wednesday said they would fight hard to try to derail a highly unpopular plan to make people work longer b...
Jan 11, 2023
FA to investigate spot-fixing allegations over booking of Oxford’s Brown
(Reuters) - England's football association will investigate reports of spot-fixing surrounding the booking of Oxford United defender Ciaron Brown during the League One side's 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in ...
Jan 11, 2023
U.S. investigating FAA outage, cause not clear -Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden has ordered an investigation into an FAA system outage that grounded flights across the country Wednesday morning and said the cause of the failure was unknow...
Jan 11, 2023
German industry is losing green energy race, autos association warns
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany urgently needs more carbon-neutral energy at affordable prices if it is to maintain its global relevance as an industrial player, the president of German autos association VD...
Jan 11, 2023
Voodoo dances and rituals wow tourists at Benin festival
By Pulcherie Adjoha and Seraphin Zounyekpe OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haysta...
Jan 11, 2023
