Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Hurricane Delta bears down on storm-weary U.S. Gulf Coast
By Stephanie Kelly BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Residents in parts of the U.S. state of Louisiana left town or made last-minute preparations on Friday as Hurricane Delta spun across the Gulf of Mexico...
Oct 09, 2020
U.N. food agency WFP wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
By Terje Solsvik and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve...
Oct 09, 2020
Meet the six-year-old pianist who plays Rachmaninoff
PARIS (Reuters) - When Guillaume Benoliel sits at the piano stool rehearsing Rachmaninoff's Italian Polka for a forthcoming concert, his feet dangle in the air. "I've met talented people in my career ...
Oct 09, 2020
Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo to end pandemic furlough schemes
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Truckmaker AB Volvo is ending all its short-time working schemes in Sweden effective immediately, Swedish public service television SVT reported on Friday. Some 20,000 Volvo staf...
Oct 09, 2020
EU’s Barnier to return to Brussels after meeting UK’s Frost: EU official
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will shortly return to Brussels from London on Friday after a morning meeting with Britain's lead negotiator David Fro...
Oct 09, 2020
Russia’s COVID-19 cases hit record high, Moscow mulls closing nightclubs
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in Moscow were considering closing bars and nightclubs to halt a second coronavirus wave as the number of new daily cases surged on Friday to the highest it has been sin...
Oct 09, 2020
Azeris and ethnic Armenians fight before planned talks with Russia
By Nailia Bagirova and Nvard Hovhannisyan BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces fought new clashes on Friday as Russia prepared to host talks with the warring sides' foreign minist...
Oct 09, 2020
Cut from the same cloth, Nigerian waste fabric becomes art
By Nneka Chile LAGOS (Reuters) - Marcellina Akpojotor weaves past thumping sewing machines, and leaves a Lagos shop with a bag brimming with discarded fabric. The colourful pieces, which would typical...
Oct 09, 2020
Nagorno-Karabakh says 26 soldiers killed; military toll rises to 376
YEREVAN (Reuters) - The defence ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said on Friday it had recorded another 26 deaths among its military, pushing the toll to 376 since fighting with Azeri forces er...
Oct 09, 2020
Explainer: Indonesia’s jobs law endangers environment, say activists, investors
By Fathin Ungku, Gayatri Suroyo and Bernadette Christina JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Environmentalists in Indonesia are calling for the reversal of a controversial law aimed at job creation because ...
Oct 09, 2020
