Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia to work on easing travel restrictions
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani workers back home, foreign m...
Jul 27, 2021
Libya headed back to ‘square one’ of post-Gaddafi turmoil if polls delayed: parliamentary speaker
By Ayman al-Werfali QUBAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libya will return to "square one" and the turmoil of 2011 if national elections planned for December are delayed, the speaker of parliament said, with a ne...
Jul 27, 2021
Olympics-Weightlifting-Guryeva makes history with Turkmenistan’s first medal
By Ece Toksabay and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifter Polina Guryeva made history on Tuesday as Turkmenistan's first Olympic medallist and, as the shock sank in, began wondering how she migh...
Jul 27, 2021
Hundreds of civilians killed in attack in Ethiopia’s Somali region, local government says
By Dawit Endeshaw and Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The government of Ethiopia's Somali region on Tuesday accused militia from the neighbouring Afar region of killing hundreds of civilians...
Jul 27, 2021
Olympics-Table Tennis-‘Lose quickly and come home’, demands Austrian paddler’s daughter
By Eimi Yamamitsu TOKYO (Reuters) - For Austrian Liu Jia, reaching the last 16 of the women's singles table tennis event has left her facing a dilemma -- she is still in the running to win a medal at ...
Jul 27, 2021
Google takes legal action over Germany’s expanded hate-speech law
BERLIN (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday that it was taking legal action over an expanded version of Germany's hate-speech law that recently took effect, saying its provisions violated the right to p...
Jul 27, 2021
Afghan authorities arrest local journalists on propaganda charges
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities have arrested four journalists on propaganda charges after they tried to enter the contested area of Spin Boldak in southern Kandahar province, where security forc...
Jul 27, 2021
Six killed in landslide, flooding at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
DHAKA (Reuters) - At least six Rohingya Muslims, including children, were killed and several injured on Tuesday after heavy monsoon rains triggered a landslide in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh,...
Jul 27, 2021
Olympics-Gymnastics-Biles out of team event
TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles's quest to become the greatest female Olympian here in Tokyo took a bizarre twist on Tuesday. After a disappointing vault in the first rotation of the women's team event,...
Jul 27, 2021
Food, water running out in Tigray refugee camps – UN
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Some 24,000 Eritrean refugee are trapped in two camps in Ethiopia's Tigray region, cut off from humanitarian aid and where food rations may have run out, the Un...
Jul 27, 2021
