Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Mexican president’s anti-corruption drive buffeted by scandals
By Diego Or MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three months after taking charge of a new office created by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to compensate Mexicans for years of public sector embezzlement, it...
Oct 14, 2020
Panicked Europe battens down against COVID second wave
By Jan Lopatka and Marine Strauss PRAGUE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European countries have begun to close schools and cancel surgeries, going well beyond curbs on social life, as overwhelmed authorities fa...
Oct 14, 2020
Australia says it’s deeply concerned about writer in China espionage trial
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned that Australian writer Yang Hengjun was on trial in China charged with espionage, adding his treatment fell sho...
Oct 14, 2020
Moscow doesn’t see prospects for extending New START nuclear pact with Washington
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow does not see prospects for extending the new START arms control treaty with Washington, but plans to continue talks nonetheless, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said o...
Oct 14, 2020
Afghan defence minister flies to embattled Helmand after Taliban gains
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's defence minister flew to the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday a day after government forces launched a counter-offensive against Taliban ins...
Oct 14, 2020
Russia will respond in kind against EU sanctions over Navalny case, foreign minister says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow will respond in kind against European Union sanctions over the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. European Union...
Oct 14, 2020
Somali Islamist insurgents pile up cash, says U.N. report
By Michelle Nichols and Katharine Houreld NEW YORK/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist insurgents are moving millions of dollars through the formal bank system and appear to be investing in busines...
Oct 14, 2020
Pope Francis keeps his distance at audience over COVID concerns
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis stayed a safe distance from well-wishers at his weekly general audience on Wednesday, saying new rules aimed at curbing the coronavirus meant he had to hold back....
Oct 14, 2020
Ireland may tighten COVID-19 restrictions further – deputy PM
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland is more likely to tighten its COVID-19 restrictions in the coming weeks than to ease them, and may decide on Wednesday to impose new measures in areas bordering Northern Ire...
Oct 14, 2020
Australian politician tells inquiry Chinese visa scheme was a scam
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian politician at the centre of a corruption probe told an inquiry on Wednesday that he had received envelopes full of thousands of dollars in cash at hi...
Oct 14, 2020
