Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Mexico’s coronavirus death toll rises to 85,285
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Thursday reported 5,514 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 387 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 834,910 cas...
Oct 15, 2020
Mainland China reports 24 new COVID-19 cases vs 10 a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 24 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Oct. 15, compared with 10 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Friday. All of the new infections were imp...
Oct 15, 2020
Japan has decided to release Fukushima contaminated water into sea: reports
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government has decided to release treated water containing radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea, Jiji news agency and other media repo...
Oct 15, 2020
First ‘no-quarantine’ flights arrive into Australia as virus cases fall
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several hundred passengers from the New Zealand city of Auckland are due to land in Sydney on Friday as part of a new trans-Tasman travel bubble amid a rapidly falling growth rate i...
Oct 15, 2020
Some movement on Brexit, Merkel says after EU summit talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel reported "some movement" on Thursday in talks between European Union leaders about an agreement with the United Kingdom on their post-Brexit relati...
Oct 15, 2020
Brazil registers another 713 coronavirus deaths on Thursday
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil has registered 713 additional coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours and 28,523 new cases, the nation's Health Ministry said on Thursday evening. The South America...
Oct 15, 2020
Foreign lawyers for ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero say they have been denied access to him
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Foreign lawyers of Paul Rusesabagina, depicted as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, say they have been stopped from seeing their cl...
Oct 15, 2020
Tanzania deploys helicopter to boost fight to douse Kilimanjaro fires
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Thursday it had deployed a helicopter to bolster its efforts to put out a blaze that has been burning on Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in the East ...
Oct 15, 2020
‘I want freedom’: Thais mass to defy protest ban
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - From shops, offices and schools they spilled onto a Bangkok street in their tens of thousands, voicing shock and anger and above all defiance. Thailand's...
Oct 15, 2020
Paramilitary convoy attacked in southwestern Pakistan, killing 14
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A gun and rocket attack targeting a Pakistani paramilitary escort on Thursday killed seven soldiers and seven private security guards in southwestern Paki...
Oct 15, 2020
