Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Iran imposes new restrictions to stem coronavirus spread: Rouhani
(Reuters) - Weddings, wakes and conferences will be banned in the Iranian capital until further notice as the Middle East's hardest-hit nation battles a third wave of COVID-19, police said on Saturday...
Oct 31, 2020
Spanish police arrest man for praising attack near Paris
BARCELONA (Reuters) - A Moroccan man was arrested in Barcelona for praising the beheading of a French schoolteacher outside Paris this month and inciting more attacks, police said on Saturday. The man...
Oct 31, 2020
More than 150 evacuated from Russian coronavirus hospital after fire
MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 150 patients were evacuated on Saturday from a makeshift coronavirus hospital in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals following an oxygen explosion and fi...
Oct 31, 2020
Slovakia mobilises as bid to COVID-test most of country in two days begins
By Radovan Stoklasa TRENCIN, Slovakia (Reuters) - Long queues formed outside coronavirus testing centres in Slovakia on Saturday, as the country embarked on a bid to test most of the country's 5.5 mil...
Oct 31, 2020
Greece to shut most bars, restaurants in country for month from Tuesday
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will expand a night-time curfew on movement and shut restaurants and bars in the most populous areas of the country for one month from Nov. 3 to contain a resurgence in COVID...
Oct 31, 2020
Poland reports record rise in daily coronavirus cases
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland reported a record 21,897 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, while the country faces massive protests following an abortion ruling last week. Poland has seen widespread, ...
Oct 31, 2020
Gas pipeline blast in southern Iraq kills 2, injures 51, police say
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and 51 injured after a gas pipeline explosion in southern Iraq, police sources said on Saturday. The blast occurred on Friday night near the sou...
Oct 31, 2020
Tanzania’s two leading opposition parties reject poll, demand new vote
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's two leading opposition parties said on Saturday they will not recognise results of a presidential election that handed incumbent leader John Magufuli another term ...
Oct 31, 2020
Indonesia condemns France attacks, but warns against Macron’s remarks
By Maikel Jefriando JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian president Joko Widodo on Saturday condemned what he called "terrorist" attacks in France, but also warned that remarks by President Emmanuel Macron h...
Oct 31, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan trade fresh accusations of Karabakh attacks
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia and Azerbaijan once more accused each other of bombing residential areas on Saturday, in defiance of a pact to avoid the deli...
Oct 31, 2020
