Author Archives: Syndicated Content

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - French diplomats went on strike on Thursday for the first time in 20 years in protest at a perceived lack of recognition, fewer means, and reforms pushed by President E...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A phone app that allows women in the Palestinian Gaza Strip to report domestic abuse anonymously is allowing growing numbers of victims to seek help while avoidin...

By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar will gain ground over the coming year as high commodity prices bolster Canada's economic outlook and the Bank of Canada likely continues to rais...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain began four days of celebrations on Thursday to mark Queen Elizabeth's seven decades on the throne. The 96-year-old Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning and currently the wo...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is seeking help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its 17th program in seven decades, needing a bailout in place before its economy disin...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Uri Zohar, an avant garde Israeli satirist and filmmaker who left the secular arts when he embraced ultra-Orthodox Judaism and became a rabbi, died on Thursday aged 86, the Cultu...

(Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday its military had downed a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in the Mykolaiv region. It also said in a briefing that it had struck command points of Ukr...

(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has vaccinated all those who must be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, state news agency WAM reported on Thursday. The UAE "announces th...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Support for Sweden's ruling Social Democrats has risen to a third of voters as the public seeks stability amid the war in Ukraine, an official poll showed on Thursday, but a frag...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Purchasers of vehicles equipped with defeat devices must have a right to compensation from the manufacturer, an adviser to the top EU court said on Thursday in a case brought agai...