Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end: WHO’s Tedros
GENEVA (Reuters) - A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebre...
Oct 06, 2020
Exclusive: ‘Big progress’ in Brexit talks leaves EU seeing trade deal closer – sources
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the EU are close to agreement on reciprocal social security rights for their citizens after Brexit, two diplomatic sources said, with one describ...
Oct 06, 2020
Braving coronavirus, pilgrims flock to Senegal’s ‘little Mecca’
By Christophe Van Der Perre TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) - Organisers of an annual religious festival in the Senegalese city of Touba are expecting three to five million pilgrims this week, despite the ma...
Oct 06, 2020
Colombia’s government must protect communities to stop activist killings: report
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government must prioritize communities' safety over military operations against armed groups to stop killings of activists, while ensuring perpetrators ...
Oct 06, 2020
Undeterred by virus, Iraqi volunteers cater for thousands of Arbaeen pilgrims in Baghdad
By Charlotte Bruneau and Maher Nazer BAGHDAD (Reuters) - "Fried chicken, fried fish, rice!" Mohammed al-Mohammedawi shouts to Shi'ite pilgrims passing his roadside food tent in Baghdad on their way to...
Oct 06, 2020
West African leaders lift sanctions on Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Leaders of the West African regional bloc have lifted sanctions imposed on Mali following the Aug. 18 military coup that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the group said on T...
Oct 06, 2020
Italy loosens migration rules to dismay of hardliner Salvini
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italy has softened rules penalising aid groups that bring illegal migrants ashore and extended protection for refugees who risk persecution at home, drawing the fire ...
Oct 06, 2020
Belarus opposition leader sees inspiration in fallen Berlin wall
BERLIN (Reuters) - Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya visited a fragment of the Berlin Wall ahead of a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, saying she saw in it a symbol...
Oct 06, 2020
‘All I could do was fear for my life’, says Belarus singer who fled to Kyiv
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Sergiy Karazy KYIV, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Belarusian electro-folk singer Rusia Shukiurava fled Minsk in early September but every sight of a police officer or sound of a...
Oct 06, 2020
Finland’s COVID-19 cases hit new daily record
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland reported on Tuesday its highest daily number of COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic and they now exceed the rate that Helsinki sets for other countries bef...
Oct 06, 2020
