Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Austria says it is putting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on ice
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria is suspending its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, its ministers for health and constitutional affairs said on Wednesday, six days before fines for breaches were due to start being...
Mar 09, 2022
UNHCR head estimates 2.1-2.2 million people have now fled Ukraine
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The number of people fleeing Ukraine since the Russian invasion began has probably now reached 2.1-2.2 million people, the head of the United Nation's refugee agency UNHCR said o...
Mar 09, 2022
Ukraine makes new attempt to get civilians out of Mariupol, other cities
LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine will on Wednesday try to evacuate civilians through six "humanitarian corridors", including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Ir...
Mar 09, 2022
UK impounds aircraft under new Russian sanctions
LONDON (Reuters) - British transport minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday Britain had used new aviation sanctions to impound an aircraft after making it a criminal offence for Russian aircraft to f...
Mar 09, 2022
Marketmind: A new kind of curtain
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. When McDonald's opened in central Moscow's Pushkin Square in 1990, it became a symbol of thriving American capitalism as the Soviet Union fell...
Mar 09, 2022
Tunisian questionnaire on constitution is met with a nationwide shrug
By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) - As Tunisia's president prepares to rewrite the constitution after dismissing parliament last year and ruling by decree, he has called for citizens' ...
Mar 09, 2022
Cricket-MCC bans use of saliva to shine ball, ‘Mankad’ no longer unfair play
(Reuters) - Cricketers will not be allowed to use saliva to shine the ball while the rarely used but entirely permissible "Mankad" method of dismissing batters will not be listed under unfair play in ...
Mar 09, 2022
Poland only ready to act on jets for Ukraine within NATO framework, presidential adviser says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is ready act on supplying MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, but only within the framework of NATO, an adviser to the Polish president said on Wednesday after the United States ...
Mar 09, 2022
China blames NATO for pushing Russia-Ukraine tension to ‘breaking point’
BEIJING (Reuters) - Moves by U.S.-led NATO have pushed tension between Russia and Ukraine to a "breaking point", Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday. At a daily news brief...
Mar 09, 2022
Russia says aviation sanctions threaten safety of Russian flights – RIA
(Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said that sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union on aviation threatened the safety of Russian passenger flights, the RIA Novosti news agency re...
Mar 09, 2022
