Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Divided Montenegro on course for knife-edge election
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegrins go to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that looks too close to call, with neither the long-ruling pro-Western party nor a rival pro-Russian alliance t...
Aug 29, 2020
A picture and its story: The despair of a Rio widow, in a city struggling with violence
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work be...
Aug 29, 2020
Murray ready to have fun again at U.S. Open
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andy Murray is fighting fit and ready to banish memories of his last visit to the U.S. Open, when a painful hip contributed to a second-round demise in 2018, as he ...
Aug 29, 2020
Brazil coronavirus deaths rise above 120,000
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil has registered another 758 novel coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours and 41,350 new cases, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The nation has now registered 1...
Aug 29, 2020
Trump says he will likely visit Wisconsin city where police shot Black man in back
ORANGE, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will likely visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, the city that has seen unrest since a white police officer shot a Black man in the back....
Aug 29, 2020
King hails Osaka as sport’s latest torchbearer for change
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - At the end of a week when Naomi Osaka brought the fight for racial justice to sport's front door, it seemed fitting that another great tennis pioneer Billie Jean Ki...
Aug 29, 2020
Duchess Kate judges photography project capturing lockdown Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has helped choose 100 final images from more than 31,000 submissions made to Hold Still, a photography project she launched in Ma...
Aug 29, 2020
Quiet please! U.S. Open players bemoan the sound of silence
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - As chatty spectators so often learn the hard way, silence is golden in the sport of tennis. Yet facing the prospect of empty stands at the first fanless Grand Slam ...
Aug 29, 2020
Costa Rica requests $1.75 billion in IMF financial assistance
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's government said on Saturday it has requested $1.75 billion in financial assistance over three years from the International Monetary Fund as the Central American natio...
Aug 29, 2020
Rocket falls inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, no casualties, police sources say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Katyusha rocket landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, causing damage to an empty building and no casualties, Iraqi police sources said on Saturday. Sirens blasted fro...
Aug 29, 2020
