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By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: The 2015 Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich speaks to reporters at her apartment in Minsk, Belarus September 9, 2020. Tut.By via REUTERS MINSK (Reuters) – Nobel laureate author Svetlana Alexievich, a prominent opposition figure, has left Belarus for a trip to Germany, but her departure…
Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books were most excited about. Picked up in July for a Netflix adaptation by Sam Esmail and…
By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: Malaysia’s King, Al-Sultan Abdullah RiÕayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, inspects an honour guard during the 62nd Merdeka Day (Independence Day) celebrations in Putrajaya, Malaysia, August 31, 2019.ÊREUTERS/Lim Huey Teng KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysias king will remain hospitalised after undergoing treatment for his knees and ankles…
By Reuters Staff KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Malaysias king will remain hospitalised after undergoing treatment for his knees and ankles to address sports injuries, the national palace said in a statement on Monday. The palace said the king, Al-Sultan Abdullah, was initially warded for food poisoning on Sept.…
By Reuters Staff NICOSIA (Reuters) – An Iranian dissident who fled his country fearing arrest has fallen foul of politics and COVID-19 restrictions in ethnically split Cyprus. Since mid-September, Omid Tootian has been living in a small tent in Cypruss buffer zone, a United Nations-controlled slice of territory carved out…
You had discussed taking out loans to cover budget deficits. Does this change that? We were planning on a $55 million shortfall. And we had worked through all of our numbers the cuts weve made, the salary reductions, the reductions in our operational budget, and some of the other pieces…
Mr. Streeter has also tackled more personal subjects, writing first-person accounts reflecting on race issues in America and telling stories that examine class divisions, specifically the challenges facing lower- and middle-class families trying to afford for their children to play sports. In August, he wrote his first Sports of The…
Particularly damning is the way Taylors story has been discussed by coaches, reporters, players and fans. The focus has almost entirely been on the doctors error. Little has been said about the deeper, more troubling part of this case: the reliance on numbing drugs that allow athletes to take to…
By Reuters Staff SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinas capital Beijing will protect whistleblowers who disclose information about public health emergencies, it said on Sunday, part of the countrys efforts to fix some of the systemic faults that hindered its initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in…
