Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Before Beijing 2022 top Olympians focused on medals not pandemic, politics
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Two of the world's top winter athletes, Italian skier Sofia Goggia and Australian snowboarder Scotty James, said they were focusing on winning medals at the 2022 Wint...
Feb 04, 2021
Cycling: Giro d’Italia to start from Piedmont region – organisers
(Reuters) - This year's Giro d'Italia will start from the Piedmont region with an individual time trial in Turin, 160 years after it served as the first capital of the united Italy, organisers said on...
Feb 04, 2021
India government says 21.5% of population may have caught COVID-19 – survey
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - About 21.5% of India's 1.35 billion people may have been infected with COVID-19, according to a government serological survey of more than 35,500 people released on Thursday. Amo...
Feb 04, 2021
In first for Europe, Iran envoy sentenced to prison term over bomb plot
By Clement Rossignol and Robin Emmott ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursd...
Feb 04, 2021
Sixteen African nations interested in AU vaccine plan
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Some 16 African countries have shown interest in securing COVID-19 vaccines under an African Union (AU) initiative and the aim is to deliver allocations in the next three weeks, th...
Feb 04, 2021
Kremlin says mass detentions at Navalny protests are not repressions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday rejected allegations of Russian state repression against opposition politician Alexei Navalny's supporters and said police had made mass detentions because p...
Feb 04, 2021
Elon Musk, back on Twitter, turns his support to Dogecoin
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan LONDON (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency Dogecoin surged more than 50% on Thursday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted his support for it, two days after he said he was ...
Feb 04, 2021
Biden to pursue arms control, seeks to engage China, U.S. envoy says
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Biden administration views the New Start Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues including multilateral arms control, the U.S. e...
Feb 04, 2021
Thailand to get vaccine from Asia after EU export control, minister says
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will import the first doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine from Asia after Europe enforced export controls, the country's health minister said on Thursday. The European Union (E...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. calls for dialogue to resolve India’s farmers’ protests
By Sanjeev Miglani and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the U.S. embassy in New Delhi on Thursday urged his government to re...
Feb 04, 2021
