Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Palestinian negotiator Erekat facing ‘difficult’ coronavirus symptoms
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday he was suffering "difficult" symptoms after contracting coronavirus, but that things were "under control". Erekat, 65, a l...
Oct 09, 2020
Lukashenko says people’s assembly elections are needed in Belarus: Belta
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday said it was necessary to hold elections of the all-Belarusian people's assembly, as part of plans to amend the country's constitu...
Oct 09, 2020
Exclusive: Pakistan to block social media app TikTok for ‘immoral’ content – sources
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to block social media App TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral" content, three top government officials said on Friday. A formal announcement to this ef...
Oct 09, 2020
Spain invokes state of emergency for Madrid lockdown
By Inti Landauro MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist-led government invoked a state of emergency on Friday to impose a partial lockdown for several million people in Madrid, one of Europe's worst COV...
Oct 09, 2020
French aid worker describes years in captivity in Mali desert
By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) - At one point during her four years in the hands of jihadist militants in northern Mali, French aid worker Sophie Petronin said she felt like giving up hope. She wan...
Oct 09, 2020
Special Report: For Black South African rugby player, a COVID victory, and loss
By Tim Cocks CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) - On Broadhurst Cona's fifth night in the COVID-19 ward of Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, the patient in the bed next to him was giving up. The man ...
Oct 09, 2020
Slovak COVID-19 infections keep rising, government calls troops to help
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia reported another daily record number of new coronavirus infections on Friday, prompting the government to call up hundreds of troops to help public health officials and war...
Oct 09, 2020
Romania recalls its ambassador from Belarus
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania is recalling its ambassador to Belarus in solidarity with Lithuania and Poland, Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said on Friday, joining several other states amid continue...
Oct 09, 2020
‘We’re scared’: Lebanon on edge as time and money run out
By Ellen Francis and Issam Abdallah BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fouad Khamasi fills his taxi every day with about 40,000 Lebanese pounds' worth of fuel. It could cost at least four times that much if subsidies...
Oct 09, 2020
China expects to meet poverty alleviation goal, sustainability the next test
By Yew Lun Tian LIANGSHAN, China (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping beamed down benevolently from a poster in the new flat of unemployed Jigu Gatie, provided by the Chinese government as part of efforts...
Oct 09, 2020
