Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Iran orders travel ban and shutdown amid COVID surge
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is to impose a one-week lockdown and a ban on road travel amid a fifth COVID-19 surge in the worst-hit country in the Middle East, state television reported on Saturday. All non...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
Factbox-Afghan cities taken over or contested by Taliban
(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have made rapid advances across Afghanistan in recent months as U.S. and other foreign forces withdraw. Following is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, o...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
Lebanese central bank head maintains innocence against corruption charges
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh maintained his innocence amid allegations of corruption, saying in a radio interview on Saturday that his conscience was clear. Salameh i...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
MLB roundup: Braves grab share of NL East lead
Austin Riley belted a go-ahead homer to lead off the seventh inning to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 4-2 victory over the host Washington Nationals and into a tie for first place in the National League...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
BBC reporter says Russia told her never to return
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A BBC journalist said on Saturday that Russia was expelling her and had told her she could never return in "devastating" treatment showing the country she reported on for years was ...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
At least 40 killed in Turkey flood as search for missing continues
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Bulent Usta BOZKURT, Turkey (Reuters) - Families of those missing after Turkey's worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing ...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
Musicians at Serbian trumpet festival play on despite pandemic
GUCA, Serbia (Reuters) - The sound of trumpets filled the air as thousands of people crowded into a small Serbian town late on Friday for the 60th Guca Brass Band Festival, with visitors undeterred by...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
Austria keeps hard line on deporting Afghans
ZURICH (Reuters) - Austria stuck on Saturday to its hard line on sending home Afghans whose requests for asylum fail even as Taliban insurgent advances prompted other European Union countries to recon...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
India’s commerce minister faces heat for criticism of businesses including Tata
By Abhirup Roy and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's commerce minister faced heat on social media on Saturday for his remarks that many big domestic businesses had overlooked national interes...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021
Nobody running Lebanon, says central bank boss
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's central bank governor said nobody was running the country as he defended his decision to halt fuel subsidies that have drained currency reserves, saying the government cou...
Syndicated Content Aug 14, 2021

