Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID-19 outbreaks in Myanmar jails sow alarm
(Reuters) - Forty prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in Myanmar's main jail where some of the thousands of anti-coup protesters who have been arrested by the junta are being held, BBC Burmese...
Jul 08, 2021
Israeli demolishes family home of suspected Palestinian attacker
TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel drew U.S. criticism on Thursday when it destroyed the family home of a Palestinian-American accused of involvement in a shooting that killed an Israeli and wo...
Jul 08, 2021
Italian parliament lowers voting age for Senate elections
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's parliament voted on Thursday to lower the voting age for elections to the upper house Senate to 18 from 25, bringing it into line with that of the lower house. Elections for b...
Jul 08, 2021
China’s powerful internet regulator flexes muscles with Didi probe
By Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) - China's internet watchdog, which stunned investors with an investigation into Didi Global two days after the ride-hailing giant's New York stock market debut, has co...
Jul 08, 2021
Texas legislature to take up voting limits, other measures in special session
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers will kick off a special session on Thursday to consider a range of Republican-backed measures, including voting restrictions that Democratic lawmakers previo...
Jul 08, 2021
No hope: Families confront fate of Florida collapse victims
By Brad Brooks SURFSIDE, Florida (Reuters) - It was the dreaded end that all had feared. Fourteen days after a seaside condominium tower collapsed just north of Miami, rescuers said their mission was ...
Jul 08, 2021
Google to buy Japan payment startup for $182 million-plus – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is set to buy Japanese smartphone payment startup Pring for more than 20 billion yen ($181.9 million), the Nikkei financial daily reported on Thursday. (Reporti...
Jul 08, 2021
Volkswagen to appeal Italian court decision on class action over Dieselgate
MILAN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Thursday it would appeal against a decision by an Italian court ordering the German group to refund consumers participating in a class action lawsuit over the carm...
Jul 08, 2021
Soccer-Heroic Danes show heart despite fall at final Euro hurdle
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - With their Euro 2020 campaign looking over by halftime in the opening game after Christian Eriksen's collapse, Denmark somehow came blazing back to reach the semi-finals, only t...
Jul 08, 2021
Futures tumble on growth worries, Chinese tech rout
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell more than 1% on Thursday as the growing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant cast doubts over an economic recovery, while a rout in Chinese technology stocks ...
Jul 08, 2021
