Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. pandemic death toll mounts as danger season approaches
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have surged past 2,000 for two days in a row as the most dangerous season of the year approached, taxing an overwhelmed...
Dec 03, 2020
Ethiopia’s war still churns, but relief aid coming
ADDIS ABABA/HAMDAYET, Sudan (Reuters) - Relief agencies in Ethiopia prepared convoys on Thursday to truck aid into Tigray region, where clashes were still reported in a month of war that may have kill...
Dec 03, 2020
Central African Republic court rejects ex-president Bozize’s candidacy
BANGUI (Reuters) - The top court in Central African Republic (CAR) on Thursday rejected the candidacy of former President Francois Bozize in a Dec. 27 election, in which he planned to run against incu...
Dec 03, 2020
Bosnia’s top Catholic cleric taken to hospital over coronavirus
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, has been taken to hospital after contracting COVID-19, hospital officials said on Thursday. The healt...
Dec 03, 2020
Sweden’s COVID-19 death toll rises above 7,000
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy placed it in the global spotlight, registered 35 new COVID-19 related deaths, Health Agency statistics showed on Thursday, taking the t...
Dec 03, 2020
Lebanese crisis deepens Syrian refugee misery
By Issam Abdallah BEIRUT (Reuters) - Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad, he says he recently contemplated suicide. The 54-year-old father of three cleans shops at a mall ...
Dec 03, 2020
Swedish high schools switch to distance learning as second COVID wave mounts
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's high schools will switch to distance learning from Dec. 7 for the rest of the term, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Thursday amid mounting numbers of new coronaviru...
Dec 03, 2020
Six killed in building collapse in northern Egypt
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - At least six people died when an old four-storey building collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria in northern Egypt, local officials said on Thursday. Authorities had...
Dec 03, 2020
Russia orders U.S. rights worker to leave on national security grounds – spokeswoman
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has revoked the residence permit of a U.S. human rights worker on national security grounds and ordered her to leave within two weeks, a spokeswoman for the organisation she ...
Dec 03, 2020
Caixabank shareholders pave way to create Spain’s biggest bank with Bankia
MADRID (Reuters) - Caixabank's shareholders on Thursday lifted one of the last hurdles to the merger with state-owned lender Bankia that will create Spain's biggest domestic lender two days after Bank...
Dec 03, 2020
