Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Pompeo, on visit to Israel, says will travel to Golan Heights
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday he would visit the Golan Heights, territory Israel captured from Syria and occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, in a break f...
Nov 19, 2020
Head of Greek church, Archbishop Ieronymos, tests positive for COVID
ATHENS (Reuters) - The head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated with mild symptoms in a central Athens hospital, Greek media reported o...
Nov 19, 2020
Canadian accusations on China being cyber-crime threat are groundless, says China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Thursday accusations by Canada are groundless, when asked about Canada naming China and Russia among main cyber-crime threats...
Nov 19, 2020
‘Too soon’ to let Boeing 737 MAX fly again, say families of Lion Air crash victims
By Augustinus Beo Da Costa and Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) - Some of the relatives of victims of a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash in Indonesia have slammed a decision by U.S. aviation authoriti...
Nov 19, 2020
Pakistan’s PM goes to Afghanistan as U.S. prepares drawdown, peace talks stall
KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on Thursday to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, at a time when peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Tali...
Nov 19, 2020
Asia-Pacific leaders push for freer trade after Trump
By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders called on Thursday for open and multilateral trade to support a global economy battered by the novel coronavirus, ...
Nov 19, 2020
Ethiopian government says rebels have committed ‘atrocities’ during two-week Tigray conflict
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government on Thursday said rebels have committed "serious crimes" after conflict broke out this month in the northern Tigray region, as U.S. Pr...
Nov 19, 2020
Campus march by Hong Kong graduates marks a year since university clashes
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dozens of Hong Kong students turned their graduation ceremony on Thursday into a march to commemorate pro-democracy protests last year that included violent clashes with police a...
Nov 19, 2020
Ukraine reports new daily high coronavirus cases, deaths: minister
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record of 13,357 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Thursday, up from a previous record of 12,524 cases reported las...
Nov 19, 2020
Hong Kong court rules that police complaints system breaches Bill of Rights
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court ruled on Thursday that the city government had failed to provide an independent mechanism to handle police complaints, breaching the Asian financial hub's ...
Nov 19, 2020
