Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Lithuania finds its first coronavirus cases in mink
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's health agency said on Thursday it had found the first cases of coronavirus among its mink, as 22 dead mink on a farm in central Lithuania tested positive. The tests at ...
Nov 26, 2020
Turkey does not expect U.S. sanctions over Russian S-400s under Biden
By Orhan Coskun and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey does not expect ties with the United States to be strained under President-elect Joe Biden and does not anticipate sanctions over its purch...
Nov 26, 2020
Analysis: Libya’s rival forces have stopped shooting, but they’re not pulling back
By Ayman al-Warfali and Angus McDowall SIRTE, Libya/TUNIS (Reuters) - In Libya's frontline city of Sirte, parts of which still lie in ruins, the commission set up to oversee warring rivals' recent cea...
Nov 26, 2020
China wields patriotic education to tame Hong Kong’s rebellious youth
By Sarah Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Cua Chiu-fai is on a mission to rid Hong Kong's classrooms of what he sees as poisonous anti-China bias. His soldiers: mainly parents. He has recruited hundreds of mo...
Nov 26, 2020
Austria tightens security at churches, citing Vienna attack inquiry
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria is stepping up security at churches in case of copycat attacks after an Islamist gunman killed four people in a rampage earlier this month in which he may have intended to t...
Nov 26, 2020
France, EU lawmakers push for sanctions on Turkey next month
By Robin Emmott and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has ...
Nov 26, 2020
Azeri lawmakers call for France to lose Karabakh mediation role over senate resolution
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's parliament called on Thursday for France to be stripped of its mediation role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to punish the French Senate for adopting a resolution backi...
Nov 26, 2020
Netanyahu sends condolences to Bahrain’s king on death of PM – Bahrain news agency
DUBAI (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message of condolence to Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on the death of former prime minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Kh...
Nov 26, 2020
“Corona cabbies” in driving seat of Stockholm’s COVID testing
By Colm Fulton STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Taxi driver Lars-Goran Goransson admits to feeling a little anxious each time he slips on a pair of latex gloves and gingerly lifts a COVID-19 test administered ju...
Nov 26, 2020
Pandemic weakening more in France than elsewhere in Europe, says PM
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) - France has done a better job of flattening a second wave of COVID-19 infections that some of its European neighbours but it would be premature to talk about an end...
Nov 26, 2020
