Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Storm Iota breaks up over El Salvador but leaves major flood risk
PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Storm Iota unleashed flash floods in areas already waterlogged with rain, forcing tens of thousands of people across Central America to flee their homes with a de...
Nov 18, 2020
Scottish police hand file to prosecutors over whether lawmaker broke COVID-19 rules
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish police have handed the results of an initial investigation to prosecutors into whether lawmaker Margaret Ferrier broke COVID-19 rules because she made a long train journey ...
Nov 18, 2020
Ukraine faces ‘severe’ coronavirus winter but no new lockdown measures, minister says
By Ilya Zhegulev KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine faces a "very severe" period of COVID-19 cases but will not tighten lockdown restrictions because measures taken last week should stabilise the situation, Hea...
Nov 18, 2020
‘Where there’s a will there’s a way’ as English doctors prepare COVID vaccine roll-out
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - English doctors are grappling with the prospect of seven-day service, -75 degree Celsius freezers and vaccines known as "Talent" and "Courageous" as they prepare f...
Nov 18, 2020
Smoke rising from coronavirus hospital in Moscow, television footage shows
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Smoke was seen billowing from Kommunarka hospital, one of Moscow's main coronavirus centres, Russian television footage showed on Wednesday. Television channel NTV said one of the m...
Nov 18, 2020
Stateless young woman breaks barrier for Shona community at Kenya university
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of poor children are missing out on state education in Kenya due to a lack of identification documents, rendering them officially stateless, even though they were born in ...
Nov 18, 2020
U.S. imposes fresh Iran-related sanctions, targets Khamenei-linked foundation: website
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday imposed Iran-related sanctions on dozens of individuals and entities, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's website, in Washington's latest ...
Nov 18, 2020
Trump to represent U.S. at this week’s APEC summit, official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump plans to represent the United States at a virtual Asia-Pacific summit this week in which his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping also plans to p...
Nov 18, 2020
Twitter apologises to India parliament panel for China geo-tagging error
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China, promising to make correct...
Nov 18, 2020
BBC appoints former judge to lead Princess Diana interview inquiry
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC said on Wednesday it had appointed a former senior judge to head an inquiry into how the broadcaster secured a famous 1995 interview with the late Princess...
Nov 18, 2020
