Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
France to investigate dozens of mosques suspected of ‘separatism’
PARIS (Reuters) - France will on Thursday start investigating dozens of mosques suspected of fomenting Islamist ideology to combat the rising threat of religious extremism, Interior Minister Gerald Da...
Dec 03, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus cases exceed one million : health ministry
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's total cases of novel coronavirus hit 1 million on Thursday with 13,922 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said, as the Middle East's worst-affected c...
Dec 03, 2020
Azerbaijan says 2,783 of its soldiers killed during Karabakh conflict
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Thursday that 2,783 of its soldiers were killed during its conflict with ethnic Armenian forces over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and that ...
Dec 03, 2020
Last foreign Red Cross workers leave North Korea amid coronavirus curbs
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - The last remaining foreign staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have left North Korea, the aid organisation said on Thursday, the latest in a ma...
Dec 03, 2020
English health service looking at ways to deploy Pfizer vaccine in care homes – official
LONDON (Reuters) - England's National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in care homes with the medical regulator, but there is no guarantee that it w...
Dec 03, 2020
Africa foresees 60% of people vaccinated against COVID in two to three years
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa aims to have 60% of its population vaccinated against COVID-19 within the next two to three years, the African Union's disease control group said on Thursday. The conti...
Dec 03, 2020
Pandemic silver lining: empty Paris hotel shelters the homeless
PARIS (Reuters) - In normal times the Hotel Avenir Montmartre is a tourist magnet with its views of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur church, but COVID-19 has scared off the usual guests. Instead, ...
Dec 03, 2020
Germany is a victim of early COVID-19 success, RKI chief says
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's success in dealing with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in March and April had led many to doubt the virus's severity or even existence, the head of Germany's p...
Dec 03, 2020
Japan, China, South Korea summit postponed due to COVID-19 – media
TOKYO (Reuters) - A trilateral summit between Japan, China and South Korea has been postponed until next year as the countries prioritize their COVID-19 response, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported on ...
Dec 03, 2020
Poland should act to stop LGBTI intolerance, says Council of Europe
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish politicians should stop stigmatising LGBTI people, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights said in a memorandum published on Thursday, adding that such behaviour ...
Dec 03, 2020
