Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Moldova to alter Soviet-era abbreviation for its airport, minister says
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova is to alter the three-letter international abbreviation for Chisinau airport, a government minister said on Thursday, a new bid to distance itself from ...
Dec 20, 2023
North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack’ when enemy provokes it with nukes -KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said Pyongyang would not hesitate with a nuclear attack when an enemy provokes it with nuclear weapons, state media reported on Thursday. Kim made...
Dec 20, 2023
France prepared to change plans on 2024 Olympics opening based on security
PARIS (Reuters) - France is prepared to move the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony from the River Seine to another location should the security situation require it, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wedn...
Dec 20, 2023
Explainer-Who is Maduro ally Alex Saab, who was granted clemency in prisoner swap?
By Luc Cohen and Alexandra Ulmer NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has decided to grant clemency to Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as part of a deal in which Ma...
Dec 20, 2023
Burkina Faso detains four French civil servants, says diplomatic source
PARIS (Reuters) - Four French IT workers with diplomatic passports and visas have been arrested in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday, denying a media re...
Dec 20, 2023
Analysis-Riyadh reluctant to derail Iran detente over U.S. Red Sea taskforce
By Alexander Cornwell and Pesha Magid DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's name was conspicuously - perhaps surprisingly - absent from a list of countries the United States announced as part of its...
Dec 20, 2023
Factbox-Main elements of fiscal reforms agreed by EU governments
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers agreed on Wednesday changes to the EU's fiscal rules updating them to the post-pandemic realities of high public debt and the ...
Dec 20, 2023
Tunnels from Hamas leaders’ homes found under Gaza City, Israel military says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces uncovered a network of tunnels running deep beneath central Gaza City from properties registered to Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas organizers of the Oct. 7 at...
Dec 20, 2023
British teenagers convicted of ‘ferocious’ murder of transgender girl
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British teenagers were found guilty on Wednesday of killing 16-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey in a "ferocious attack" in a park in northwest England earlier this year. T...
Dec 20, 2023
Blinken says US wants Israel to shift to targeted operations in Gaza focusing on Hamas leadership
By Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. wants and expects Israel to shift its military operations in Gaza to a lower-intensity phase during which there will be more target...
Dec 20, 2023
