Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Pompeo arrives in Japan for trip shortened by Trump’s COVID-19
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Japan on Tuesday shortly after midnight for a visit that has been cut short by President Donald Trump's hospitalisation with COVID-19. ...
Oct 05, 2020
Kidnapped politician, French aid worker to be freed in Mali prisoner swap
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Mali will release scores of suspected Islamist insurgents in a prisoner exchange for opposition leader Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin, two security source...
Oct 05, 2020
Technical problem with coronavirus data ongoing, says UK health minister
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday a technical problem that stopped some positive test results from entering the contact tracing system was an ongoing incident but ...
Oct 05, 2020
Right to work from home splits German coalition parties
BERLIN (Reuters) - An initiative from Germany's Social Democrat labour minister to give people the right to work from home is facing opposition from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and busine...
Oct 05, 2020
Palestinian business leader hopes UAE, Bahrain will press Israel to stop settlements
RAWABI, West Bank (Reuters) - A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel, condemned by Palestinian leaders, could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pre...
Oct 05, 2020
First Black Canadian to head a federal party says victory can make politics more inclusive
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - New Green leader Annamie Paul, the first Black person to head a mainstream Canadian federal party, on Monday said her victory was a sign that politics could becom...
Oct 05, 2020
Ireland to resist lockdown, tighten COVID-19 restrictions: reports
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government has rejected a surprise recommendation by its health chiefs to go into lockdown and will instead tighten current COVID-19 restrictions, local media reported on ...
Oct 05, 2020
UK COVID cases fall to 12,594 on Monday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 12,594 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, down from 22,961 a day earlier when authorities said the jump was partly due to a technical problem. (Reporting by Andy Br...
Oct 05, 2020
Kyrgyz police use teargas, water cannon to disperse protest
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz police used teargas and water cannon to disperse thousands of people demonstrating on Monday against the result of a parliamentary election, after some protesters tried to b...
Oct 05, 2020
Myanmar’s trishaws turn campaigners as virus curbs canvassing
By Zaw Naing Oo YANGON (Reuters) - As surging coronavirus infections make election canvassing difficult in Myanmar, humble trishaw drivers are becoming unlikely champions for a nationwide ballot just ...
Oct 05, 2020
