Author Archives: Syndicated Content

(Reuters) - Yaphet Kotto, an American actor known for his roles in movies including "Alien" and "Midnight Run" and as a villain in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die," has died at age 81. Kotto's d...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian junior ice hockey player died on Tuesday after being struck in the head by a puck during a game last week, Russia's Junior Hockey League (MHL) said. Timur Faizutdinov, a d...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Output at U.S. factories plunged in February, depressed by winter storms in Texas, which put some petroleum refineries, petrochemical facilities and plastic resin plants out of ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police detained a Gambian man on Tuesday suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver in the elite guard of forme...

By Jonathan Saul and Laura Sanicola LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. refiners are scaling back on hiring ships for longer periods to save on costs in another sign of uncertainty over when global oil d...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, has registered 12,762 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health agency statistics showed on Tuesday. The figure comp...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Europe's medicines watchdog on Tuesday said the benefits of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine continue to outweigh the risks after several countries halted its use due to concerns a...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At least one major state-owned Chinese bank is conducting large currency swaps in mainland markets, possibly as part of efforts to cap the yuan, as domestic banks deal with a heav...

By Waruna Karunatilake and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Tuesday a call to ban the wearing of the burqa was "merely a proposal", following criticism from regional allies ahead of ...

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of artefacts, including fragments of a biblica...