Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
UN marks 75 years of human rights declaration in shadow of Gaza
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged countries on Monday to work together to defeat threats such as war and pollution at an event to mark 75 years of the Universal Declar...
Dec 11, 2023
Austria makes conditional ‘Air Schengen’ offer to Bulgaria, Romania
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria, which has led opposition within the European Union to Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen open-travel area, said on Monday it was willing to relent but only on plane ...
Dec 11, 2023
France weighing sanctions to address West Bank settler violence
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris is considering imposing national sanctions on actors involved in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said ahead of a Europea...
Dec 11, 2023
Small-town mayor is caught in north Kosovo tensions
By Fatos Bytyci LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) - Meet the small-town Kosovo mayor who is rejected by most inhabitants of his municipality and who is trapped amid tensions between Albanians and Serbs that...
Dec 11, 2023
Taiwan again reports Chinese carrier group in Taiwan Strait as election looms
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's military sent forces to watch a Chinese naval formation, led by the aircraft carrier Shandong, sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, Taiwan's defence ministry said, ...
Dec 11, 2023
Italy, France, Germany call for ad hoc EU sanctions on Hamas
ROME (Reuters) - Italy, France and Germany called on the European Union to impose ad hoc sanctions against Hamas and its supporters, the foreign ministers of the three nations wrote in a joint letter ...
Dec 11, 2023
Two people killed in Swiss town shooting – police
GENEVA (Reuters) -Two people were killed and another injured in a shooting in the Swiss town of Sion on Monday, police said. The suspect, an unidentified man who remained at large, fired several shots...
Dec 11, 2023
Russia unleashes new attacks in eastern Ukraine, says Ukrainian military
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian forces have unleashed a massive new offensive on the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, part of their campaign to secure control of the eastern Donbas region, the Ukrainian military ...
Dec 11, 2023
Rohingya face rejection in Indonesia after surge of boat arrivals
By Hidayatullah Tahjuddin and Stanley Widianto PIDIE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Myanmar's Rohingya face a wave of hostility and rejection in Indonesia, where regional communities say they are fed up of a ...
Dec 11, 2023
Factbox-What led to Kashmir decision by India’s top court?
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court upheld on Monday a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to revoke special status for Kashmir and split the region into two federally a...
Dec 11, 2023
