Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected to announce independent run for president
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist and son of the former senator, is expected to announce Monday in Philadelphia that he is dropping his Democra...
Oct 09, 2023
Soccer-FIFA to ‘mitigate environmental impact’ of 2030 World Cup
(Reuters) - FIFA will take measures to "mitigate the environmental impact" of the three-continent 2030 World Cup, world soccer's governing body said. FIFA last week named Morocco, Spain and Portugal a...
Oct 09, 2023
Saudi Arabia to launch greenhouse gases and crediting scheme early next year
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman on Monday launched a greenhouse gases and crediting scheme that will begin next year. The scheme aims to drive progress to...
Oct 09, 2023
Rescuers search for survivors days after deadly quakes hit northwest Afghanistan
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Syed Hassib HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Rescue workers on Monday scrambled to pull out survivors, and the dead, from beneath the rubble two days after the northwestern c...
Oct 09, 2023
Death toll in floods in Indian Himalayan state rises to 74 – govt officials
KOLKATA (Reuters) - The death toll after floods in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim has risen to 74, government officials said on Monday. At least 101 people were still missing after a cloudburst ...
Oct 09, 2023
Remnants of Typhoon Koinu bring floods to Hong Kong
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong ordered people to stay indoors, shut schools and closed the stock exchange on Monday as the remnants of Typhoon Koinu caused floods a month after the city was paralysed...
Oct 08, 2023
Japan issues tsunami advisory for Izu, Ogasawara Islands area
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan issued a tsunami advisory for the Izu, Ogasawara island areas in the eastern part of the country on Monday. The tsunami is believed to have already arrived in the island areas,...
Oct 08, 2023
Head of Exxon’s shale oil business faces sexual assault charge in Texas
By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) - The head of Exxon Mobil's shale oil and gas business, a unit involved in merger talks with rival Pioneer Natural Resources, was arrested at a Texas hotel last we...
Oct 08, 2023
Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Advocates hoped that California's bill passed by the state legislature to ban caste discrimination would make history as the first of its kind statewide law in the United...
Oct 08, 2023
Israel war adds urgency to US Republican House speaker crisis
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress face new pressure to select a House speaker after Israel declared war on Sunday, following a rare attack by Hamas militants tha...
Oct 08, 2023
