Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Indian state criminalizes ‘forced’ religious conversions by marriage
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) - India's ruling Hindu nationalist party approved a decree in the country's most populous state on Tuesday laying out prison terms for anyone compelling others to c...
Nov 24, 2020
Sweden’s foreign minister calls her Iranian counterpart over scientist sentenced to death in Iran
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's foreign minister said on Tuesday she had spoken to her Iranian counterpart after reports Iran may soon enforce a death sentence on Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Dj...
Nov 24, 2020
Deal reached for UK’s four nations to relax COVID measures together over Christmas – Times Radio
LONDON (Reuters) - The four nations of the United Kingdom have agreed to relax COVID-19 restrictions together for Christmas, Times Radio's Chief Political Commentator Tom Newton Dunn said on Tuesday. ...
Nov 24, 2020
Two blasts kill seven in Syrian rebel-held northwest near Turkish border
AMMAN (Reuters) - Two bomb blasts killed at least seven people and wounded scores on Tuesday in areas of northwest Syria near the Turkish border and under heavy Turkish influence, witnesses and police...
Nov 24, 2020
Two hurt in knife attack in Swiss city of Lugano, paper reports
ZURICH (Reuters) - A female assailant choked one woman and stabbed another in a department store in the southern Swiss city of Lugano on Tuesday, the Blick newspaper reported. "Police are not ruling o...
Nov 24, 2020
Conservative Simonyte wins Lithuanian parliament’s approval to form government
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament approved the appointment of conservative Ingrida Simonyte as the Baltic country's next prime minister on Tuesday and tasked her with forming a government fol...
Nov 24, 2020
French PM says curbs on identifying police not targeting journalists
PARIS (Reuters) - A draft law that would make it a crime in certain circumstances to circulate an image of a police officer's face is not aimed at infringing journalists' right to report on public eve...
Nov 24, 2020
Nursing homes will be first to get COVID-19 vaccine in Spain
By Emma Pinedo and Jose Elas Rodrguez MADRID (Reuters) - Elderly residents and staff in nursing homes will be the first to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in Spain, Health Minister Salvador Ill...
Nov 24, 2020
Saudi tells U.N. that Houthis to blame for Aramco attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia told the U.N. Security Council that Yemen's Houthi group were to blame for a missile attack on a petroleum products distribution plant in Jeddah on Monday, urging the...
Nov 24, 2020
Brazilian clothes brand removes image of Hindu deity from shorts
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian fashion clothes brand has removed ads for its line of shorts for men and women that used an image of Lord Ganesh, one of the most revered deities of Hinduism, in respo...
Nov 24, 2020
