Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Delhi city lawmakers summon Facebook India chief over February riots
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A panel of local lawmakers in New Delhi have summoned Facebook's top executive in India to answer allegations that it did not properly apply hate speech rules and policies, which...
Sep 12, 2020
Belarus police detain people during protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus police detained at least six people on Saturday at the beginning of an anti-government protest in the capital Minsk, a Reuters witness reported. Hundreds of women gathered i...
Sep 12, 2020
Ambulance hits landmine in southern Mali, killing six
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Six civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed in southern Mali when the ambulance they were travelling in struck a landmine, the health ministry said on Saturday. It was no...
Sep 12, 2020
French police use tear gas as yellow vests return to Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities deployed a heavy police presence in Paris and used tear gas on Saturday as the "yellow vest" movement returned to the capital after being dampened by the coronavir...
Sep 12, 2020
Palestinians rally against Bahrain-Israel normalisation
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli, U.S., Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries' moves to norma...
Sep 12, 2020
Highlights: Key comments as historic Afghan-Taliban peace talks begin
DOHA (Reuters) - Afghan government representatives and Taliban insurgents, along with U.S. diplomats and other dignitaries gathered in Doha on Saturday for the start of historic peace talks aimed at e...
Sep 12, 2020
Explainer: Afghan-Taliban peace talks: who, what, where and why
KABUL (Reuters) - Talks seeking to end 19 years of war in Afghanistan started this weekend, with an opening ceremony on Saturday. Negotiators representing the Kabul government and Taliban insurgents a...
Sep 12, 2020
Austria’s Kurz reiterates opposition to taking in asylum seekers from Moria
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his go...
Sep 12, 2020
Factbox: Five of the largest wildfires ever to hit the U.S. West
(Reuters) - More than 100 wildfires have ripped through parts of the U.S. West in recent weeks, consuming areas nearly the size of New Jersey, killing at least 24 people and forcing hundreds of thousa...
Sep 12, 2020
Showers and a place to sleep: Portland Convention Center shelters wildfire evacuees
By Deborah Bloom PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Joey Slate was getting kidney dialysis treatment at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, which has been transformed into a major evacuation center for ...
Sep 12, 2020
