Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Putin, Macron discuss situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in phone call: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday to discuss the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin said. The two lead...
Nov 16, 2020
Crisis-hit Peru seeks third president in a week to exit ‘nightmare’
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru awoke on Monday morning still searching for a new head of state after lawmakers failed overnight to name what would be the third president in a week. Interim lead...
Nov 16, 2020
Polish cardinal accused of sexual abuse dies aged 97
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish cardinal who was accused of sexually abusing a minor has died at the age of 97, Poland's Roman Catholic Church said on Monday. Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, the former archb...
Nov 16, 2020
EU says won’t monitor Uganda election, limiting poll’s international scrutiny
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The European Union will not deploy an observer mission for Uganda's presidential election in January, an official said on Monday, after complaints that advice ...
Nov 16, 2020
Scientists sound warning about UK PM Johnson’s mass-testing ‘moonshot’
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plans for mass COVID-19 testing that might re-open large parts of the economy, known as "Operation Moonshot", are likely to be ineffective and...
Nov 16, 2020
South Africa’s Zuma says graft inquiry biased, seeks judge’s recusal
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lawyers for South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma, who was compelled to appear before a judicial inquiry into corruption, accused the judge of being biased and said he sh...
Nov 16, 2020
Seven-year-old Italian influencer challenges disability stereotypes
By Antonio Denti and Emily Roe ROME (Reuters) - Sirio Persichetti can't speak and can't feed himself but the seven-year-old has taken the social media world by storm with his daily antics, proving tha...
Nov 16, 2020
Spain’s hard-pressed millennials move out of the city amid COVID
By Clara-Laeila Laudette, Silvio Castellanos and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) - Thirty-one-year-old Ines Alcolea ditched the bustling life of Madrid in October for a village near the much quieter ...
Nov 16, 2020
Saint Pope John Paul II – a hasty halo?
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory". Now, the Polish pope's own lega...
Nov 16, 2020
Moldova’s Dodon says concedes defeat in presidential runoff if courts find no violations
CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's incumbent Igor Dodon said on Monday he would concede defeat in the presidential election if local courts find no violations. "If the courts confirm that everything is ok...
Nov 16, 2020
