Category Archives:
EU warns Polish regions they could lose funding over ‘LGBT-free’ zones
WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Commission has written to five Polish regional councils urging them to abandon declarations that they are "LGBT-free" in order to receive funding, one of the councils a...
Sep 06, 2021
Top U.S. diplomat slams ‘shameful sentencing’ of Belarus opposition figures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday condemned the "politically motivated conviction and shameful sentencing" of Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and ...
Sep 06, 2021
Blinken arrives in Qatar as four Americans leave Afghanistan
DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived on Monday in Qatar where he will seek support to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans left behind in Afghanistan. A senior State Depar...
Sep 06, 2021
Four Americans evacuated from Afghanistan overland -State Dept official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan into a bordering country, a State Department official said on Monday, in the first U.S.-facilitated overland evac...
Sep 06, 2021
Nord Stream 2: Russia’s push to boost gas supplies to Germany
(Reuters) - The operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline announced on Monday that the final piece of pipe had been attached, leaving only the linking of its two long stretches to complete the projec...
Sep 06, 2021
G20 vows more COVID help for poor states, Italian presidency says
ROME (Reuters) - The group of 20 rich countries agreed on Monday to step up the provision of resources to help poor countries vaccinate their populations against COVID-19 but did not appear to have ma...
Sep 06, 2021
Veolia, Suez to seek EU antitrust okay for tie-up this month – source
By Foo Yun Chee and Gwnalle Barzic BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - French waste and water management companies Veolia and Suez will seek EU antitrust approval this month for their tie-up to create a nation...
Sep 06, 2021
U.N. footage from northern Ethiopia shows humanitarian crisis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Footage of war-hit northern Ethiopia published by the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday reflected the severe humanitarian crisis there, after the United Nations warned that...
Sep 06, 2021
UK records 41,192 new COVID cases on Monday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain recorded 41,192 new daily COVID-19 cases on Monday, up from 37,011 on Sunday, government statistics showed. There were 45 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus tes...
Sep 06, 2021
Sudanese rap thrives with post-uprising freedoms
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rappers in Sudan taking advantage of looser social controls https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-culture-idUSKBN2132I5 following the 2019 uprising are seeing their scene expan...
Sep 06, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
76 °F Sunny
