X says govt ordered it to block Reuters News accounts in India
- 09-Jul-2025
India’s government last week directly ordered X to block more than 2,000 accounts, including two belonging to Reuters News, the social media platform said on Tuesday in a sharp public attack on “ongoing press censorship” in India. Two Reuters News accounts – @Reuters and @ReutersWorld – were suspended for India users late on Saturday, and […]
X blasts India ‘censorship’ order on thousands of accounts
- 08-Jul-2025
Social media platform X said Tuesday it was “deeply concerned” after the Indian government ordered it last week to block more than 2,000 accounts, including two belonging to the Reuters news agency. Many of the blocked accounts were restored within hours, and New Delhi denied any role in the takedown. India, the world’s biggest democracy, […]
X suspends Reuters account in India after ‘legal demand’
- 06-Jul-2025
NEW DELHI, July 6: The Reuters News account on X has been inaccessible to users in India since Saturday, when the social media platform suspended it in response to what it described as a “legal demand”. A spokesperson for the Indian government’s Press Information Bureau, however, told Reuters there was no requirement from any agency […]
Trump gets middling grades on Americans’ top issues, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
- 23-Feb-2025
WASHINGTON: Americans give President Donald Trump middling marks on his handling of the economy and efforts to shrink the government and are unimpressed by some of the early fights he has picked, such as proposals to take over Gaza, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. The poll, conducted February 13-18, asked more than 4,000 U.S. adults nationwide whether they supported […]
Magnitude 5 earthquake strikes Kuwait
- 05-Jun-2022
An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Kuwait, the ministry of information tweeted on Saturday. The ministry said, “the Kuwait National Seismic Network recorded an earthquake measuring 5 … southwest of al-Ahmadi, and it occurred at exactly 04:28:02 a.m. Kuwait time (0128 GMT), at a depth of 5 km (3 miles)”. Also Read: 4.6-magnitude earthquake hits […]
Forbes lists Pakistan one of the best countries for social entrepreneurs
- 06-Nov-2019
Pakistan's overall ranking has improved from 32nd place to 14th in the last three years.
North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
- 07-Oct-2019
North Korea said the ball was now in Washington’s court, and warned Washington that it would wait only until the end of the year for the United States to change course.
Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed from prison
- 07-May-2019
Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail
Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail journalists
- 13-Sep-2018
HANOI: Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression. Asked how she felt about jailing journalists as a democratic leader, Suu Kyi said: “They were not jailed because they were journalists, they […]
Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar refused bail
- 01-Feb-2018
YANGON: A district court in Myanmar rejected bail on Thursday for two Reuters journalists accused of violating the country’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act. In proceedings, a lawyer for the two journalists told the court that documents police said were found in their possession when they were arrested contained information that was publicly available in newspaper […]