Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK defence minister Wallace rules himself out of leadership race
LONDON (Reuters) - British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, one of the favourites to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said on Saturday he had decided not to run in the leadership contest. Wallace, ...
Jul 09, 2022
Syria’s Assad makes first visit to Aleppo since recapture
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Saturday in Aleppo, his first visit to the northern city since his forces recaptured it in 2016 with hel...
Jul 09, 2022
Muslim pilgrims perform haj’s symbolic stoning of the devil
By Soha Gado JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims threw pebbles on giant columns symbolising Satan on Saturday, part of annual haj rituals that mark the first day of Eid...
Jul 09, 2022
Rogers services restored for majority of customers after Canada-wide outage
(Reuters) - Rogers Telecommunication said on Saturday that it has restored services for the majority of its customers after a service outage at one of Canada's biggest telecom operators shut banking, ...
Jul 09, 2022
All 11 victims of Italian glacier collapse identified, authorities say
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police on Saturday confirmed 11 people died when a glacier collapsed in the Alps in an incident being blamed on rising temperatures. Rescue teams had feared a 12th person coul...
Jul 09, 2022
Tennis-Djokovic set for the unexpected as Kyrgios blocks path to 21st Grand Slam title
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic has contested 31 Grand Slam finals and faced just about every scenario possible in collecting 20 titles but even he will not know what to expect in S...
Jul 09, 2022
Russia’s Sberbank executes first digital asset issue on its platform
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's dominant lender Sberbank on Saturday said it had carried out the first digital financial asset transaction on its own platform, with its subsidiary SberFactoring executing ...
Jul 09, 2022
UK’s Conservative Party looking to speed up leadership contest -committee member
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservative Party committee overseeing the contest to select British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's replacement will look to whittle it down to two names by July 20, one of its...
Jul 09, 2022
China’s Wang Yi says direction of U.S.-China ties in danger of going ‘astray’
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken on Saturday that the direction of U.S.-China relations was in danger of being further led "astray" due to ...
Jul 09, 2022
Motor racing-Better to be fast and in the wall than slow, says Wolff
(Reuters) - Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said Lewis Hamilton's and George Russell's Austrian Grand Prix qualifying crashes would hit the team in the pocket but he would rather have a quick car that wen...
Jul 09, 2022
