Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Facebook-owner Meta launching high-fashion clothing store for avatars
(Reuters) - Facebook-owner Meta Platforms is launching a digital clothing store where users can purchase designer outfits for their avatars, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday. Initial fas...
Jun 17, 2022
Motor racing-Verstappen quick off the mark in Canada GP practice
By Alan Baldwin MONTREAL (Reuters) - Formula One revved up for the first Canadian Grand Prix since 2019 on Friday with Max Verstappen setting the practice pace for Red Bull and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz ...
Jun 17, 2022
Retired priest, 92, charged with indecent assault after Canadian residential school probe
By Jenna Zucker (Reuters) - A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday. Arthur ...
Jun 17, 2022
Golf-Mickelson misses U.S. Open cut after second-round 73
By Frank Pingue BROOKLINE, Mass. (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson's highly anticipated start at this week's U.S. Open following a controversy-filled few months came to an early end as the six-times runner-u...
Jun 17, 2022
Canada seeks to prosecute some extremely intoxicated people who harm others
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada's federal government introduced a bill on Friday to hold some people criminally responsible if they harm someone else while extremely...
Jun 17, 2022
Cowboys for Trump founder sentenced to 14 days for breaching Capitol grounds
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican member of a governing commission in New Mexico who founded a group called "Cowboys for Trump" was sentenced on Friday in federal court in Washingt...
Jun 17, 2022
Russian imports may drop by 30% this year, says top official -Tass
(Reuters) - Russian imports may drop by 30% this year but will not dwindle to zero, Tass news agency reported Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister who now heads the state Audit Chamber, as saying ...
Jun 17, 2022
Venezuelan oil cargo for Eni departing, supertanker to load next -document, sources
(Reuters) - A 650,000-barrel-cargo of Venezuela's heavy crude chartered by Italy's oil company Eni is about to set sail carrying the first export of crude to Europe from the U.S.-sanctioned country in...
Jun 17, 2022
Jamaica top court sides with challenge to detentions under states of emergency
By Kate Chappell KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaica's top court on Friday said authorities violated a man's human rights by detaining and holding him for months without trial under a 2018 state of emergency...
Jun 17, 2022
Golf-Daffue impresses with shot from carpeted deck at U.S. Open
By Frank Pingue BROOKLINE, Mass. (Reuters) - MJ Daffue may have squandered a three-stroke lead late during his second round of the U.S. Open but the South African still left a lasting impression in hi...
Jun 17, 2022
