Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Canada’s worst mass shooting helped push 2020 murder rate to 15-year high
(Reuters) - The murder rate in Canada last year rose to its highest level since 2005, pushed up in part by the country's worst-ever mass shooting, in which 22 people died, Statistics Canada said on Th...
Nov 25, 2021
Gambia’s truth commission recommends prosecutions for Jammeh-era crimes
By Pap Saine and Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) -A Gambian commission wrapped up a sweeping three-year public inquiry into former president Yahya Jammeh's 22 years in power on Thursday by recommen...
Nov 25, 2021
Who will be the Bundesbank’s next chief?
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats, the senior partner in the three-way coalition that is forming a new government, are expected to pick a new head of the Bundesbank, the national centra...
Nov 25, 2021
In-person spectators return to New York’s Thanksgiving parade
(Reuters) - Spectators once again lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for the 95th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after last year's spectacle was scaled down and closed to the public bec...
Nov 25, 2021
Bid target Telecom Italia’s auditors meet before key board meeting -sources
MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia's auditors and risk committee will examine its financial health on Thursday ahead of a board meeting which could decide the future of Italy's biggest phone group and i...
Nov 25, 2021
Choosing between ‘bad and worse’: a migrant’s dilemma after Channel tragedy
By Layli Foroudi DUNKIRK, France (Reuters) - For the past month, Mahdi, 31, has been holed up in a makeshift camp in northern France, waiting for his place in a dinghy run by people smugglers to reach...
Nov 25, 2021
Italian coastguard rescues hundreds of migrants off Lampedusa island
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian coastguard has rescued about 300 migrants from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe. Some of the pe...
Nov 25, 2021
‘I was murdered’: video brings domestic violence victims back to life to warn others
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - "I was Michal Sela," the dead woman says, looking straight into the camera. "In 2019, I was murdered by the man who was my husband, the killer Eliran Malul. And t...
Nov 25, 2021
Lebanon court rejects suits over Beirut blast by former PM, ministers
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A top Lebanese court Thursday rejected lawsuits filed by a former prime minister and three former ministers seeking to sue the state over the conduct of the judge probing the deadly...
Nov 25, 2021
Bolsonaro denounces Macron-Lula meeting as a ‘provocation’
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday called out French President Emmanuel Macron for the "provocation" of meeting with Brazil's leftist former lea...
Nov 25, 2021
