Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Fiji embassy opening in Israel faces potential delay amid Israel-Hamas war
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Fiji could delay opening its embassy in Israel, the Pacific Island nation's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, amid fears the war between Israel and P...
Oct 18, 2023
Anglican church calls for ‘restraint’ on placing blame for Gaza hospital attack
LONDON (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of the Anglican church, which runs the hospital in Gaza where a deadly blast killed huge numbers of Palestinians, on Wednesday called for restraint in placing b...
Oct 18, 2023
US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between ...
Oct 18, 2023
Iranian-French academic Adelkhah has returned to France from Iran, says Paris university
PARIS (Reuters) - Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah - who had previously been held in prison in Iran - has returned to France from Iran, said Paris' Sciences-Po university on Wednesday. Iranian ...
Oct 18, 2023
Saudi Arabia, Japan agree to cooperate to ease Middle East tensions
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed in a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday to work together to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza and help e...
Oct 18, 2023
Georgia’s pro-EU president avoids impeachment after break with government
By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili escaped impeachment on Wednesday, amid a bitter dispute with a government she says is pro-Russian and insufficiently committe...
Oct 18, 2023
Factbox-What is Islamic Jihad? The Hamas ally at war with Israel
(Reuters) - Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that is an ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel from Gaza, has denied Israel's accusations that it was behind a strike on ...
Oct 18, 2023
EU leaders vow tighter borders, more repatriations after Brussels attack
By Marine Strauss, Gabriela Baczynska and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union's chief executive promised on Wednesday to tighten border securi...
Oct 18, 2023
EU proposes more robust suspension mechanism on visas to tackle migration problems
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Wednesday proposed setting up more robust mechanisms to suspend visas, as the region tries to find ways to overhaul its troubled migration system. The E...
Oct 18, 2023
Factbox-Gaza hospital blast: what we know about the explosion
(Reuters) - A blast at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of Palestinians just before U.S. President Joe Biden visited Israel as the conflict between the Israeli military and the Hamas raged. WHO BOMBED ...
Oct 18, 2023
