Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
U.N. chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by armed clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray
By Giulia Paravicini and Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The head of the United Nations said he was deeply alarmed by fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, where federal troops have be...
Nov 06, 2020
German police search homes of four people suspected of having ties with Vienna attacker
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Friday they were conducting searches in several German towns in connection with four people believed to have ties to the suspected Vienna attacker who killed f...
Nov 06, 2020
China’s Hengfeng Bank ex-chairman Cai sentenced to death with two-year reprieve
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced on Friday the former chairman of Hengfeng Bank, Cai Guohua, to death with two-year reprieve after convicting him of abuse of power, corruption, embezzleme...
Nov 06, 2020
U.S. to sanction leader of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement: WSJ
(Reuters) - The United States is planning to sanction Gebran Bassil, the leader of Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement party, which was founded by President Michel Aoun and is allied with Hezbollah, the...
Nov 06, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern increases parliamentary majority after final vote tally
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's centre-left government has increased its parliamentary majority after the results of postal and other special circumstance votes bolstere...
Nov 05, 2020
Exclusive: Trump administration advances $2.9 billion drone sale to UAE – sources
By Mike Stone and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department gave Congress informal notification it plans to sell 18 sophisticated armed aerial drones to the United Arab Emirat...
Nov 05, 2020
South Korean ‘sparrows’ try to cap surge of throwaway plastic
By Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) - At a workshop in the South Korean capital, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collecte...
Nov 05, 2020
Northern Ireland will not be ready for Jan.1 post-Brexit trade checks: watchdog
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Ireland will not be ready to conduct checks on certain goods moving between Britain and the province from January as required by the Brexit divorce deal and ...
Nov 05, 2020
‘America is more than a one-man show,’ says German foreign minister on U.S. vote
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday urged both sides in the U.S. election to show restraint until the results were available, adding it was irresponsible to aggravate tensi...
Nov 05, 2020
Experts spar over ethical question: Should we be paid to get COVID-19 shots?
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A suggestion by an ethics professor at a leading UK university that governments should pay citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has sparked debate over whethe...
Nov 05, 2020
