Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Australian journalist Cheng back home after China release
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who had been detained on national security charges in Beijing for more than three years, returned home on Wednesday after being rel...
Oct 11, 2023
Israel killed at least 1,000 Gaza infiltrators, reinforcing nationwide – military
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops have killed at least 1,000 Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza in incursions that began at the weekend, and have reinforced all communities in Israel as h...
Oct 11, 2023
New Zealand election winner will face defence spending decisions
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Whoever wins New Zealand's election on Saturday is going to have to make some difficult decisions on investment and staffing for a defence force struggling with ...
Oct 11, 2023
Denmark offers to evacuate Danes from Israel, Palestinian territories
OSLO (Reuters) - The Danish government said on Wednesday it will offer to evacuate its citizens as well as holders of permanent residency in Denmark from Israel and Palestinian territories following t...
Oct 11, 2023
Fiji Airways flight leaves Israel with pilgrims, travellers: Fiji minister
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fiji's Defence Minister said a Fiji Airways flight had left Tel Aviv with almost 200 Fijian religious pilgrims, plus citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States...
Oct 11, 2023
Fourteen Thai nationals taken hostage in Israel unrest – foreign ministry
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand said it received reports that three more of its nationals had been taken hostage in the ongoing violence in Gaza, bringing the total abducted to 14, the foreign ministry s...
Oct 11, 2023
Paraguay’s biggest prison set ablaze, rioting inmates take guards hostage
ASUNCION (Reuters) - Inmates at Paraguay's largest prison rioted on Tuesday, taking 11 guards hostage and setting fire to facilities in the crowded Tacumbu penitentiary on the outskirts of the capital...
Oct 10, 2023
Australia’s outback dialysis clinic says Indigenous Voice can save lives
By Jill Gralow and Praveen Menon ALICE SPRINGS (Reuters) - Three times a week, Rachel Napaltjarri, an Aboriginal woman suffering from end-stage kidney failure, receives lifesaving dialysis to cleanse ...
Oct 10, 2023
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes northwestern Afghanistan – GFZ
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck northwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said....
Oct 10, 2023
Australia police says pro-Palestinian protest plans ‘unauthorised’
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Wednesday a pro-Palestinian protest scheduled for the weekend in Sydney will be an "unauthorised" activity, and it would set up a task force after reports ...
Oct 10, 2023
