Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Major police operation underway near Montreal downtown
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Police cordoned off an area near downtown Montreal on Friday amid media reports of a hostage situation and asked people to stay away. "There is an ongoing polic...
Nov 13, 2020
Second wave, same strategy: Swedish COVID-19 czar defiant despite surge
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden remains steadfast in its strategy of voluntary measures and no lockdowns, the architect of its unorthodox COVID-19 response said on Friday, as the countr...
Nov 13, 2020
Libya talks set December 2021 date for elections
TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan participants in political talks taking place in Tunis have set 24 December 2021 as the date for parliamentary and presidential elections, the acting U.N. Libya envoy Stephanie...
Nov 13, 2020
French prosecutors: Nice church attack and teacher’s beheading are linked
PARIS (Reuters) - The man suspected of knifing to death three people in a church in the French city of Nice had on his telephone pictures of the man who beheaded a middle school teacher near Paris 13 ...
Nov 13, 2020
Outside Mogadishu, locusts turn farmland into desert
By Abdirahman Hussein MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A rifle on his back, Mohamed Yasin tries in vain to chase away the swarm of yellow-coloured insects that have invaded his farm as his camels mill about near...
Nov 13, 2020
New coronavirus cases and hospital admissions drop sharply in France
PARIS (Reuters) - New coronavirus infections and hospital admissions for COVID-19 dropped sharply at the end of the second week of a new nationwide confinement in France, health ministry data showed o...
Nov 13, 2020
After Ivory Coast election, fighting comes to a once-calm town
By Ange Aboa M'BATTO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Before last month's presidential election, M'Batto in central Ivory Coast was a small, peaceful town where ethnic groups intermarried and churches and mos...
Nov 13, 2020
Austria prepares tighter coronavirus restrictions as cases soar
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria was preparing on Friday to introduce tougher restrictions aimed at slowing a surge in coronavirus infections, with media reporting measures ranging from closing shopping cen...
Nov 13, 2020
Denmark has not registered new COVID-19 infections with mink-related mutation
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark has not registered any new examples of humans infected with a so-called Cluster-5 mutated coronavirus strain stemming from mink, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on ...
Nov 13, 2020
Italy extends lockdowns to more regions, tightens curbs
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Restrictions aimed at slowing a surge in coronavirus cases will be extended in various Italian regions, with both Tuscany and Campania set to be designated as high-...
Nov 13, 2020
