Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Angry French city asks after church attack: Why us again?
By Caroline Pailliez NICE, France (Reuters) - When a suspected Islamist from Tunisia killed three people this week in a church in the French Riviera city of Nice, for many residents it brought painful...
Oct 30, 2020
U.S. fights delay in extraditing Carlos Ghosn’s accused escape plotters to Japan
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday urged a federal judge to swiftly reject a last-minute bid by two Massachusetts men to avoid being extradited to Japan to face c...
Oct 30, 2020
Bolivian Congress approves report recommending lawsuit against outgoing president
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's Congress, controlled by the socialist party of the former indigenous President Evo Morales, approved on Thursday night a report that recommends a lawsuit against outgoing ...
Oct 30, 2020
Three Thai protest leaders re-arrested, one carried from van
By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police carried one of the country's most high profile protest leaders apparently unconscious from a van on Friday, as he and two ot...
Oct 30, 2020
Canada increases immigration targets in bid to boost growth, fill labor gaps
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Friday that it was increasing its immigration targets after a significant decline in new permanent residents in 2020 due to COVID-19 in a bid to underpin an economic ...
Oct 30, 2020
Young Tunisian’s journey from dowdy suburb to French church beheading
By Tarek Amara and Jihed Abidellaoui SFAX, Tunisia (Reuters) - When Brahim al-Aouissaoui made a video call to his family back in Tunisia early on Thursday he told them he had just arrived in Nice and ...
Oct 30, 2020
Iran brands U.S. ‘pirates’ over seized Venezuela-bound oil
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran accused the United States on Friday of acting like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" after Washington said it had sold off Iranian crude oil shipments that it seized on their way t...
Oct 30, 2020
Madame Tussauds in Berlin dumps Trump before U.S. election
BERLIN (Reuters) - The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect i...
Oct 30, 2020
First Jerusalem-born American gets U.S. passport that lists ‘Israel’ as birthplace
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States on Friday issued for the first time a passport to a Jerusalem-born American with 'Israel' listed as the place of birth instead of the city. The U.S. Ambassador ...
Oct 30, 2020
Analysis: Stick or twist? Azerbaijan looks to drive home Nagorno-Karabakh gains
By Robin Paxton and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber (Reuters) - A recent rallying cry by the ethnic Armenian leader of Nagorno-Karabakh contained a startling admission: enemy troops were no more than five ki...
Oct 30, 2020
