Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
‘Leave Immediately’: Bushfire approaches township in Australia’s Fraser Island
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Monday asked residents of a coastal township in the world heritage listed Fraser Island to "leave immediately" after a massive bushfire burning there since...
Dec 06, 2020
Insecurity holds up aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, aid workers say
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's northern Tigray region is too volatile for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians in need, humanitarian workers said on Sunday, amid reports of pers...
Dec 06, 2020
Romania’s PM Orban says centrists win parliament election
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling centrist National Liberal Party (PNL) is the winner of the Dec. 6 parliamentary election, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Sunday. "The PNL thinks it is the ...
Dec 06, 2020
Romanian Liberals and Social Democrats tied in general election: exit polls
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Liberals (PNL) and the leftist Social Democrats (PSD) appeared tied for first place in a general election on Sunday with 29.0% and 30.5%, an exit poll showed, in...
Dec 06, 2020
Thousands protest in London against India’s farming reforms
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in central London on Sunday over Indian agricultural reforms that have triggered mass demonstrations in India. A crowd of demonstrators converged on th...
Dec 06, 2020
UK records 17,272 new COVID cases and 231 new deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 17,272 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, up from 15,539 a day earlier and raising the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to over 1...
Dec 06, 2020
South Africa urges quarantine after ‘super-spreader’ student parties
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa on Sunday urged school students who attended a series of end-of-year "Rage" parties to enter 10 days of quarantine after identifying four such parties as COVID-19 "s...
Dec 06, 2020
Turkey records 30,402 daily coronavirus cases
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 30,402 new coronavirus cases, including asymptomatic ones, over the past 24 hours, Health Ministry data showed on Sunday. The COVID-19 death toll rose by 195 in the ...
Dec 06, 2020
Italy’s COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, with 564 new deaths
ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 564 COVID-related deaths on Sunday, down from 662 a day earlier and taking the official toll since the outbreak began in February above 60,000, the health ministry said...
Dec 06, 2020
Indonesia receives first COVID vaccine from China’s Sinovac
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday, President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme. Jokowi, as t...
Dec 06, 2020
