Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Britain opens investigation into coronavirus test and trace glitch
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has launched an investigation into why a technical issue with its test and trace programme had not been identified sooner, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris ...
Oct 05, 2020
Russia calls for examining U.S. moves ‘against the WHO’
GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia called on Monday for an evaluation of the legal and financial repercussions of the Trump administration announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. calls for WHO reforms, timely information on outbreaks
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, in apparent criticism of China, said on Monday that it could not tolerate the "failure" of a member state of the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide accura...
Oct 05, 2020
Indonesia parliament passes flagship jobs bill, critics vow protests
By Maikel Jefriando and Tabita Diela JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament passed into law President Joko Widodo's flagship "Job Creation" bill on Monday that aims to boost investment in Southeas...
Oct 05, 2020
One in 10 may have caught COVID, as world heads into ‘difficult period’: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Roughly 1 in 10 people may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world's population vulnerable to the related COVID-19 disease, the World H...
Oct 05, 2020
Iceland closes bars, gyms again to curb coronavirus spread
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Iceland has ordered bars, gyms and entertainment venues to close and has sharply cut the number of people allowed to gather in public in order to curb a recent rise in COVID-19 ...
Oct 05, 2020
Business as usual? Little enforcement of Madrid’s new lockdown
By Silvio Castellanos and Michael Gore MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid residents were largely going about business as usual on Monday despite a prohibition on non-essential travel in the first European capi...
Oct 05, 2020
Turkish drill ship heads back to Turkey from off Cyprus: data
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish drill ship has left the area where it was operating southwest of Cyprus and reached Turkey's coast, Refinitiv Eikon shipping data showed on Monday, in a move the Europea...
Oct 05, 2020
Ethiopia bans flights over dam for security reasons: aviation chief
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has banned all flights over its giant new hydropower dam on the Blue Nile for security reasons, the head of its civil aviation authority said on Monday. Ethiopia is lo...
Oct 05, 2020
Thailand seeks Red Bull heir extradition after Interpol ‘red notice’
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Monday they would seek the extradition of the fugitive heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, after Interpol issued a global "red notice" seeking his arrest...
Oct 05, 2020
