Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Grain ship lightly damaged off Ukraine, likely hit sea mine – sources
LONDON (Reuters) - A merchant ship transporting grains was lightly damaged off the coast of Ukraine and was likely to have been hit by a floating sea mine, according to maritime specialists and a Ukra...
Nov 17, 2023
Family buries Israeli conscript hostage, vows never to forgive
By Janis Laizans MODIIN, Israel (Reuters) - The body of an Israeli hostage recovered from Gaza City was buried on Friday by weeping family and friends, with her mother telling mourners she would never...
Nov 17, 2023
Taliban minister raises return of deported Afghans’ assets in Pakistan visit
By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting commerce minister said he had asked Pakistan to help return the assets of expelled Afghans and discussed ways to overcome Afghanistan...
Nov 17, 2023
Ukraine says it has destroyed 15 Russian naval vessels in Black Sea during war
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Friday its operations had resulted in the destruction of a total of 15 Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea since the start of Russia's invasion and that ...
Nov 17, 2023
Senior EU official channels increasing gloom over Russia’s war in Ukraine
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union decision next month to launch membership talks with Ukraine is "at risk" and there is no agreement in the bloc to grant Kyiv a further 50 bi...
Nov 17, 2023
World Court says Azerbaijan must let ethnic Armenians return to Nagorno-Karabakh
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges at the World Court on Friday ordered Azerbaijan to let ethnic Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh in September return and to keep the remaining Armenians in the enclave sa...
Nov 17, 2023
British author A.S. Byatt, who won Booker prize for ‘Possession’ dies aged 87
LONDON (Reuters) - Booker-prize winning British novelist Antonia Susan Byatt, known most commonly as A.S. Byatt, has died aged 87, her publisher said in a statement on Friday. Byatt, whose career span...
Nov 17, 2023
Greece optimistic over Gaza humanitarian aid – foreign minister
By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Talks on opening a humanitarian aid corridor into north Gaza could yield results soon, Greece's foreign minister George Gerapetritis said on Friday, a day after me...
Nov 17, 2023
US issues sanctions targeting group in Iraq it says is behind recent attacks
By Daphne Psaledakis and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday issued sanctions targeting Iran-aligned militia group Kata'ib Hizballah in Iraq, accusing the group of being beh...
Nov 17, 2023
War crimes court drops case against ex-LRA commander after his reported death
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Friday it had ended proceedings against Vincent Otti, the former deputy head of the notorious Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), as it...
Nov 17, 2023
