Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Olympics-Athletics-Gardiner takes 400m gold on night of firsts
By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) -Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the 400 metres on Thursday, becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in an individual men's event in his country's history, a...
Aug 05, 2021
Taliban target provincial Afghan cities in response to U.S. strikes, commanders say
KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants have switched strategy from targeting rural areas of Afghanistan to attacking provincial cities, in response to increased U.S. air strikes after ...
Aug 05, 2021
Russia says boosts arms supplies to Central Asia amid Afghan conflict
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has increased arms and military hardware supplies to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan amid fighting in Afghanistan, Interfax news agency quoted Russian military chief of staff Valer...
Aug 05, 2021
Olympics-Wrestling-‘Magic Man’ Taylor wins final at the death, Japan’s Kawai claims gold
By Ece Toksabay CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - American David Taylor edged Iran's Hassan Yazdanicharati to win the Olympic freestyle middleweight gold medal on Thursday, turning the bout around in the dying...
Aug 05, 2021
Qatar Airways says regulator grounds 13 of its Airbus A350s over surface issue
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways has been instructed by its regulator to ground 13 Airbus A350 planes due a faster than expected deterioration of the fuselage surface below the paint on the jets. The s...
Aug 05, 2021
Protesters gather at Indian crematorium where girl, 9, raped and murdered
By Alasdair Pal and Anushree Fadnavis NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Protesters gathered in India's capital on Thursday outside a crematorium where a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered, the la...
Aug 05, 2021
‘I’m going to die’: a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing
By Lucy Marks and Natalie Thomas DOVER, England (Reuters) - Sitting in a small boat with 22 other migrants, lashed by driving rain and heaving waves, Abdullah al Badri thought he was going to drown in...
Aug 05, 2021
Africa’s COVID vaccine project takes a step forward with bottling agreement -document
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senegal's Institut Pasteur of Dakar (IPD) has reached a deal with U.S. company MedInstill for the bottling of COVID-19 shots, an EU document shows, marking ...
Aug 05, 2021
Olympics-Athletics-Gardiner triumphs as U.S. men endure day to forget
By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the Olympic 400 metres title on Thursday but it was the failure of the formerly all-conquering American men that was talk of the ...
Aug 05, 2021
Migrant dinghies dodge France’s security net to reach the English coast
By Pascal Rossignol AMBLETEUSE, France (Reuters) - At the break of dawn on a beach in northern France, a dozen migrants waited for a police patrol to pass by, then quietly climbed into an inflatable d...
Aug 05, 2021
