Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Cape Town fights alien trees threatening its water supply, biodiversity
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - In South Africa's Franschhoek mountains a helicopter drops off abseilers to cut down invasive pine trees that are choking off water supplies to millions of Cape ...
Oct 18, 2021
Polio vaccination campaign to begin in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - Health workers in Afghanistan will begin a house-to-house polio vaccination drive next month after the new Taliban government agreed to support the campaign, the World Health Organiz...
Oct 18, 2021
OSCE says rebels in eastern Ukraine holding its monitors prisoner in hotel
KYIV (Reuters) - Europe's main security watchdog said a group of its monitors overseeing a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine had been barred from leaving their hotel by pro-Russian separatists who ...
Oct 18, 2021
Olympics-Tibetan activists removed from site of Beijing Games torch ceremony
By Karolos Grohmann ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (Reuters) - Four Tibetan activists were removed from outside the archaeological site of ancient Olympia and detained on Monday, an hour before the start of ...
Oct 18, 2021
Australia’s Aristocrat Leisure makes $2.9 billion bet on online gambling provider Playtech
(Reuters) -Australia's Aristocrat Leisure said on Monday it would buy London-listed gaming software supplier Playtech for 2.1 billion pounds ($2.89 billion), offering new growth areas for the gambling...
Oct 18, 2021
China hopes to work closer with U.S. firms in NEVs, biopharma -industry minister
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China hopes U.S. firms will strengthen their cooperation with Chinese companies in the areas of new energy vehicles, biopharma and next-generation information and communication te...
Oct 18, 2021
Russian court to consider transfer of jailed ex-U.S. Marine Whelan to U.S. – TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court will consider a request next month to transfer former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, sentenced last year to 16 years in a Russian jail, to the United States, his lawyer to...
Oct 18, 2021
Thailand to cease Sinovac vaccine use when stocks end this month
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will stop using the COVID-19 vaccine of China's Sinovac when its current stock finishes, a senior official said on Monday, having used the shot extensively in combination ...
Oct 18, 2021
Kenyan court allows police to hold husband of athlete for 20 days
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Monday allowed police to hold the husband of long distance runner Agnes Tirop for 20 days over her killing, the KTN News channel reported. Tirop's husband Ibrahim...
Oct 18, 2021
Opposition candidate Neves wins Cape Verde election
By Julio Rodrigues PRAIA (Reuters) - Opposition candidate and former prime minister Jose Maria Neves won Cape Verde's presidential election on Sunday, as his main rival, the ruling party's flagbearer ...
Oct 18, 2021
