Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Crisis-weary Beirut residents defy new lockdown despite COVID surge
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Beirut's popular Sabra market teemed with shoppers this week, some of them unmasked, in apparent defiance of a full national lockdown imposed on Saturday to stem a resurgence of cor...
Nov 17, 2020
UK PM Johnson tests negative for COVID-19, continues to self-isolate
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested negative for COVID-19, his spokesman said on Tuesday, but the British leader will continue to self isolate according to government guidance. ...
Nov 17, 2020
British PM tells ministers an EU deal is far from certain
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his top ministers on Tuesday it was far from certain that a trade agreement would be reached with the European Union and that time was runn...
Nov 17, 2020
Belarus opposition leader calls for sanctions on Lukashenko supporters
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on European leaders to impose targeted economic sanctions on supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko...
Nov 17, 2020
At least six dead after suicide bomber attacks restaurant in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Six people died on Tuesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police academy, a police spokesman and a witness said. It w...
Nov 17, 2020
Iran says U.S. move against it would face ‘crushing’ response
DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Any U.S. attack on Iran would face a "crushing" response, an Iranian government spokesman said on Tuesday, following reports U.S. President Donald Trump asked for options f...
Nov 17, 2020
Bosnia detains a Serb ex-policeman over wartime killing of 51 civilians
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian police on Tuesday detained a Serb ex-policeman accused of taking part in the killing of 51 non-Serb civilians in northwestern Bosnia early in the Balkans war of the 1990s,...
Nov 17, 2020
Japan PM Suga says broad agreement reached on military pact with Australia
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday Japan and Australia had reached a broad agreement on their bilateral defense pact. The pact called the Reciprocal Access Agreeme...
Nov 17, 2020
Russia says coronavirus mutations appearing in Siberia as deaths hit record daily high
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mutations in the coronavirus are appearing in Siberia, the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog said on Tuesday, as the country reported a record daily high of 442 deaths from ...
Nov 17, 2020
U.S. warship successfully destroys ICBM target in test off Hawaii
(Reuters) - A U.S. warship has intercepted and destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) target in a test conducted northeast of Hawaii, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. The te...
Nov 17, 2020
