Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Russia says new U.S. sanctions blacklist is ‘clumsy’ PR
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday criticised a new round of U.S. sanctions over alleged human rights abuses, saying they were not backed up with hard evidence of wrongdoing and describing them as "c...
Dec 11, 2020
Vietnam courts sentences ex-Hanoi chairman to jail amid crackdown on graft
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced the former head of Hanoi's governing body to five years in jail for misappropriating secret state documents and misusing assets in a case that ...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. returns 12 military sites to South Korea after years of haggling
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military agreed on Friday to return 12 sites to South Korea, including some in central Seoul, clearing the way for civilian construction projects after years...
Dec 11, 2020
Britain wants a Brexit trade deal but will survive no matter what, minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to get a Brexit trade deal and there is a still a chance of getting one but he will not back down on the two main outstanding issues, Cult...
Dec 11, 2020
EU summit goes through night as Poland holds out on climate deal
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders haggled through the night for a deal on the bloc's new climate target at a summit in Brussels, but were still deadlocked on Friday morning as...
Dec 11, 2020
Australia police finds 450 kg of ‘ecstasy’ in excavator from UK, arrests 5
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities said on Friday they had uncovered almost half a tonne of illicit drug MDMA concealed inside an excavator imported from the United Kingdom. An investigation, l...
Dec 11, 2020
Taiwan commissions new coast guard ships to bolster defences
By Ben Blanchard KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan commissioned the first of a new fleet of coastguard ships on Friday, an advanced catamaran that can be armed with missiles during war, as the isla...
Dec 11, 2020
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
By Cate Cadell WUHAN, China (Reuters) - For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten min...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S., allies to raise human rights in North Korea at U.N. Security Council
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half the 15-member U.N. Security Council plan to raise the issue of rights abuses in North Korea during a closed-door meeting on Friday - a move likely ...
Dec 11, 2020
Ahead of U.N. climate summit, urgent calls to ‘fix the future’
By Matthew Green and Valerie Volcovici LONDON (Reuters) - When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged ...
Dec 11, 2020
