Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Germany’s budget committee interrupts 2024 budget deliberations – panel members
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's budget committee interrupted final deliberations on the 2024 draft budget early on Friday morning, according to the chief budget officers of the coalition government, afte...
Nov 17, 2023
Vietnam ramps up South China Sea island expansion, researchers say
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has been ramping up its dredging and landfill work in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, creating another 330 acres of land since December last year, a U.S. think ta...
Nov 17, 2023
Myanmar military, insurgents battle over port town
(Reuters) - Myanmar's military has launched attacks from the air and the sea to recapture a port town on the Bay of Bengal, an opposition alliance said on Friday, as junta forces face the fiercest off...
Nov 16, 2023
US sanctioned tankers previously shipped Russian crude to India – data
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Three oil tankers, newly sanctioned by Washington, regularly shipped Russian Sokol crude to India in recent months, shiptracking data from LSEG and Kpler showed. The U.S. on Thurs...
Nov 16, 2023
China hopes Fiji will continue ‘firm’ support for Chinese issues – Chinese state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it hopes Fiji will continue to give 'firm' support to it on issues concerning Chinese core interests and major concerns, Chinese state media cited President Xi Jinping a...
Nov 16, 2023
Indian rescuers still 40 metres away from workers trapped in collapsed tunnel
By Saurabh Sharma SILKYARA, India (Reuters) - Rescuers drilled about one-third of the way into the debris of a collapsed highway tunnel in India by Friday morning to reach 40 workers trapped inside fo...
Nov 16, 2023
US, Philippines ink landmark deal on nuclear cooperation
MANILA (Reuters) - The United States and the Philippines on Friday signed a landmark deal that would allow Washington to export nuclear technology and material to Manila, which is exploring nuclear po...
Nov 16, 2023
Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Myanmar-China border region – GFZ
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck the Myanmar-China border region on Friday, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles) GFZ said....
Nov 16, 2023
Philippines’ Marcos, China’s Xi to discuss tensions, way forward in South China Sea
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Friday he will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the sidelines of the APEC Summit in San Francisco to discuss tensions...
Nov 16, 2023
Guatemalan prosecutor moves to strip president-elect’s immunity
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan prosecutor moved to strip President-elect Bernardo Arevalo of his immunity from prosecution on Thursday, in the latest escalation of a political...
Nov 16, 2023
