Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
‘We’re not Hungary,’ Macron says, rejecting ‘illiberal’ accusations
By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday rejected accusations his government had taken an illiberal turn with a contested bill to protect police officers and a crack...
Dec 04, 2020
Pompeo slaps visa restrictions on Chinese accused of quashing dissent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday he had imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials and others who have used or threatened to use violence, the release of p...
Dec 04, 2020
Jerusalem church suffers damage in arson near Garden of Gethsemane
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police on Friday arrested a man for trying to set fire to an east Jerusalem church by the Garden of Gethsemane, the site revered by Christians as the place where Jesus pr...
Dec 04, 2020
Portugal approves extension of COVID-19 emergency as Christmas approaches
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament on Friday approved a 15-day extension of a state of emergency to Dec. 23 under a decree that envisages a further extension into January, as the government prep...
Dec 04, 2020
Montenegro approves new coalition, overturning three decades of socialist role
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Montenegro's parliament on Friday endorsed a new coalition government with a wafer-thin majority that needs to steer the country through the coronavirus crisis and an economic dow...
Dec 04, 2020
Canada PM Trudeau won’t comment on possible Meng release, says priority is detainees in China
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday declined to comment on talks between the U.S. Justice Department and lawyers that could lead to the release of a senior Huawei curre...
Dec 04, 2020
U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavi...
Dec 04, 2020
Pompeo says violence levels in Afghanistan ‘unacceptably high’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The violence currently taking place in Afghanistan is 'unacceptably high', U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, adding that Washington has asked the warring parti...
Dec 04, 2020
War in Ethiopia’s Tigray wrenches families apart
By Seham Eloraby and Baz Ratner UM RAKUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Ethiopian farmer Gebrahid Welderfael said he last saw his wife and 18-year-old daughter in the sewer in his village in the Tigray region wh...
Dec 04, 2020
WHO’s Tedros says concerned about perception pandemic is over
GENEVA (Reuters) - Recent progress on COVID-19 vaccines is positive but the World Health Organization is concerned this has led to a growing perception that the pandemic has come to an end, WHO Direct...
Dec 04, 2020
