Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Poland dismisses its representative at World Bank, drawing central bank rebuke
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's new government has dismissed the country's representative to the World Bank, the prime minister said on Tuesday, drawing a rebuke from the central bank that had appointed h...
Dec 19, 2023
Zelenskiy says he has working relationship with army chief
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday dismissed suggestions of a rift with army chief Valery Zaluzhny and said he maintains a working relationship with the top general. H...
Dec 19, 2023
Mexican president says his country is world’s leading cultural power
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday declared his country to be the foremost cultural power in the world, praising its ethnic and culinary diversity and int...
Dec 19, 2023
Zelenskiy confident U.S. won’t ‘betray’ Ukraine over financial support
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was confident the U.S. would not "betray" his country by withholding crucial wartime funding as it fights off a Russian inva...
Dec 19, 2023
High civilian toll in Gaza is cost of crushing Hamas, Israeli military officials say
By Frank Jack Daniel PALMACHIM AIRBASE, Israel (Reuters) - Heavy civilian casualties are the cost of Israel's intense campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza and the militants' urban warfare strategy, Israe...
Dec 19, 2023
Iraq’s ruling Shi’ite alliance leads in provincial elections – preliminary results
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took the single-largest bloc of votes in Baghdad and most of the country's southern provinces in provincial council ele...
Dec 19, 2023
Ukraine’s military asks for additional 450,000-500,000 people to be mobilised – Zelenskiy
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the military had asked for an additional 450,000-500,000 people to be mobilised into the army, but that a final decision h...
Dec 19, 2023
Hijacked ship off Somalia fuels fears pirates back in Red Sea waters
By Jonathan Saul, Emma Pinedo and Abdi Sheikh LONDON/MADRID/MOGASISHU (Reuters) - A merchant ship sailing off Somalia has been hijacked by unknown raiders, Spain's defence ministry said on Tuesday, fu...
Dec 19, 2023
Qatar, Israel hostage talks positive but deal not imminent – source
DUBAI (Reuters) - A meeting between Qatar's prime minister and the heads of Israel's Mossad spy agency and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Warsaw on Monday about hostages held by Hamas w...
Dec 19, 2023
UN Security Council supports wind-down of Congo peacekeeping mission
KINSHASA (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution starting to wind down its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N.'s news ...
Dec 19, 2023
