Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Irresponsible ‘tough talk’ with China is useless, says Canada foreign minister
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will keep pressing China to improve its human rights record but has no interest in irresponsible tough talk, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne s...
Nov 23, 2020
Japan’s ramen bars struggle to stay open as COVID hammers small firms
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Sixty-year-old Yashiro Haga is folding his Tokyo noodle ramen shop after 15 years in December, unable to overcome the prospect of a lasting customer slump due to t...
Nov 23, 2020
Carrefour Brasil shares plunge as Brazilians protest killing of Black man at store
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Supermarket chain Carrefour Brasil's share price plummeted 6% in afternoon trading on Monday after the death of a Black man beaten by security guards last week at one ...
Nov 23, 2020
Analysis: Biden’s pick for U.N. envoy will find waning American influence
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be his ambassador to the United Nations in New York will have to tackle Washington's waning leadership at the world body in...
Nov 23, 2020
China launches robotic spacecraft to retrieve rocks from the moon
WENCHANG, China (Reuters) - China on Tuesday launched a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve samples from the lunar surface since the 1970s,...
Nov 23, 2020
Catholic leaders in Mexico move Guadalupe pilgrimage online to avoid crowds
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican church and civic leaders on Monday canceled an annual gathering that attracts massive crowds of Catholic pilgrims to protect people amid an intensifying coronavirus out...
Nov 23, 2020
UK considers whether to remove British judges from Hong Kong court
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is considering pulling its judges out of Hong Kong's highest court, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday, in its latest response to what it considers China's breach...
Nov 23, 2020
Spain’s King Felipe in quarantine after close contact with coronavirus case
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI started 10 days of quarantine on Monday after coming into close contact with someone who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, a Royal House source s...
Nov 23, 2020
Pope, for first time, says China’s Uighurs are ‘persecuted’
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In a new book, Pope Francis for the first time calls China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to ...
Nov 23, 2020
Burkina Faso’s Kabore ahead in early presidential election results
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Incumbent Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore was leading with just 12 of around 360 voting districts declared on Monday, the electoral commission said, a day after a presidenti...
Nov 23, 2020
