Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Guinea’s Conde wins presidency with 59.5% of vote
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's President Alpha Conde won the Oct. 18 election with 59.5% of the vote, according to a full preliminary tally from the election commission on Saturday. The victory, which r...
Oct 24, 2020
Spain’s regions urge government to impose state of emergency to allow curfews
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish regions are urging the central government to take measures that would give them legal backing to impose curfews as the country battles a resurgent coronavirus epidemic. As o...
Oct 24, 2020
South Korean authorities stick to flu vaccine plan after deaths rise to 48
By Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - The number of South Koreans who have died after getting flu shots has risen to 48, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Saturday, adding th...
Oct 24, 2020
Europe becomes second region to cross 250,000 deaths as second COVID wave hits
By Anurag Maan and Kavya B (Reuters) - Europe became the second region after Latin America to surpass 250,000 deaths on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, with record numbers of daily COVID-19 in...
Oct 24, 2020
Merkel reinforces appeal to reduce contacts as German infections rise
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday reinforced a message to Germans to curb social contacts and keep travel to a minimum as coronavirus infections continued to rise. Instead of ...
Oct 24, 2020
Indonesian unions vow mass protests if president signs jobs law
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's workers will stage further mass protests across the country if President Joko Widodo signs new jobs measures into law next week, the head of the main labour group said ...
Oct 24, 2020
Ethiopia says it will not cave to ‘aggression’ in dam dispute
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Saturday that threats of any kind towards resolving a dispute with its neighbours over the filling and operation of a massive hydropower dam were "misguided, unpro...
Oct 24, 2020
Egypt begins voting to elect new parliament
CAIRO (Reuters) - Polls opened in Egypt on Saturday for parliamentary elections that will stretch over several weeks and are set to be dominated by supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A firs...
Oct 24, 2020
IOC chief Bach says Olympic Games cannot be ‘marketplace of demonstrations’
(Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the Olympic Games are not about politics and must guard against becoming a "marketplace of demonstrations". Against the bac...
Oct 24, 2020
New clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh after Washington talks
By Nailia Bagirova and Vladimir Soldatkin BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to en...
Oct 24, 2020
