Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
At Thalys attack trial, passengers recount stopping gunman with bare hands
By Tangi Salan PARIS (Reuters) - Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed t...
Nov 19, 2020
Death toll from Iota slowly rises in Central America amid ongoing rescue efforts
By Gustavo Palencia and Ismael Lopez TEGUCIGALPA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The death toll from storm Iota is slowly rising in Central America as authorities on Thursday said they'd recovered more bodies...
Nov 19, 2020
As COVID toll among Kenyan doctors jumps, one widow shares her grief
By Baz Ratner and Maggie Fick KHUMUSALABA, Kenya (Reuters) - When Daniel Alushula began gasping for air after contracting COVID-19 last month, all the intensive care beds in his home town hospital wer...
Nov 19, 2020
Round the world on an electric boat: Briton commemorates Magellan
SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - British navigator Jimmy Cornell set sail from Seville in Spain on Thursday to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first voyage around the world - this time on an electr...
Nov 19, 2020
Yemen aid workers fear possible U.S. blacklisting of Houthis
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - Humanitarian agencies say a possible U.S. designation of Yemen's Houthi group as a foreign terrorist organisation would prevent lifesaving aid to the conflict-rive...
Nov 19, 2020
Lebanon sets starting point for sea border negotiations with Israel
BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Michel Aoun on Thursday specified Lebanon's starting point for demarcating its sea border with Israel under U.S.-mediated talks, in the first public confirmation of a stan...
Nov 19, 2020
Iran’s Guards launch aircraft carrier-scale warship amid tensions with U.S.: TV
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have added a warship capable of carrying aircraft, missile launchers and drones to its naval fleet, state media said on Thursday, at a time of high ...
Nov 19, 2020
Turkey’s behaviour “widening its separation” from EU, Borrell says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's rhetoric on Cyprus is aggravating tensions with the European Union and Ankara must understand that its behaviour is "widening its separation" from the 27-nation bloc, EU ...
Nov 19, 2020
Mexico’s president: we didn’t threaten to expel DEA agents over General Cienfuegos arrest
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that Mexico did not threaten to expel U.S. agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) from Mexico in retaliat...
Nov 19, 2020
At 100, last Nuremberg prosecutor still yearns for justice
By Lena Toeppler NUREMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - Seventy-five years on from the Nuremberg Trials, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nazi war criminals behind some of history's worst crimes is 100-ye...
Nov 19, 2020
