Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
U.S. House Democrats adopt mobile internet voting for leadership contests
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers used a mobile phone app over the last two weeks to remotely cast votes for the first time, according to technologists and some involved in the process, e...
Dec 04, 2020
Third of Spaniards ready to take COVID-19 vaccine immediately, survey shows
MADRID (Reuters) - About a third of the Spanish population is ready to take the COVID-19 vaccine immediately, while 55.2% of them would rather wait for the effects to be known, a survey carried out by...
Dec 04, 2020
India formally protests to Canada over Trudeau remarks on farm protests
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India summoned Canada's ambassador on Friday and said comments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over protests by farmers near Delhi were an interference i...
Dec 04, 2020
Russian state employees describe pressure to join vaccine trials
By Polina Ivanova, Rinat Sagdiev, Gleb Stolyarov and Kate Kelland MOSCOW (Reuters) - In late September, Moscow municipal official Sergei Martyanov sent a series of text messages to his subordinates: "...
Dec 04, 2020
Protests break out in captured Ethiopian city, says Tigrayan leader
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The leader of Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces said on Friday that protests were breaking out in the regional capital which fell to federal troops days ago in their month-...
Dec 04, 2020
U.N. rights boss Bachelet calls on Belarus to release protesters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official Michelle Bachelet called on Belarus on Friday to release all people unlawfully arrested in post-election protests and investigate some 2,000 compl...
Dec 04, 2020
Qatar foreign minister says there has been movement on resolving Gulf dispute
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's foreign minister said on Friday that there has been movement on resolving a bitter diplomatic dispute among the Gulf countries but that he could not predict whether a breakth...
Dec 04, 2020
Blast rocks South African oil refinery, seven injured
By Rogan Ward and Wendell Roelf DURBAN (Reuters) - An explosion rocked South Africa's second-largest crude oil refinery in Durban on Friday injuring seven people, local emergency services said. Engen,...
Dec 04, 2020
South Korea’s Moon replaces ministers as sinking ratings put policy agenda at risk
By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in reshuffled his cabinet on Friday as his approval rating sank to a record low amid a backlash over housing policies, ri...
Dec 04, 2020
Cat-and-mouse game with Turkey must stop, Michel says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A game of "cat-and-mouse" between the European Union and Turkey needs to come to an end, European Council President Charles Michel said on Friday, in reference to a dispute over n...
Dec 04, 2020
