Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Ethiopia’s Oromo celebrate tense thanksgiving amid tight security
By Dawit Endeshaw BISHOFTU, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Thousands of people from the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, celebrated their thanksgiving festival in Bishoftu city amid tight security on Sun...
Oct 04, 2020
Pope says free market, ‘trickle-down’ policies fail society
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and "trickle-down" economic policies had fail...
Oct 04, 2020
UK’s Johnson sees bumpy COVID winter, but radical changes by spring
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he expected the next few months of the COVID-19 pandemic to be bumpy, but that things would look radically different in the sprin...
Oct 04, 2020
UK’s Johnson says he doesn’t want no-deal Brexit but can live with it
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he did not particularly wish for the Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal being in place, but that Britain co...
Oct 04, 2020
Kuwait’s new emir meets senior U.S., Iranian officials
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's new Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah met on Sunday with senior U.S. and Iranian officials who separately paid respects over the death of the Gulf Arab state's former rul...
Oct 04, 2020
Azerbaijan says Armenian forces shell second city of Ganja
YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said on Sunday that Armenian armed forces had shelled its second city of Ganja in a major new escalation of the conflict in the South Caucasus. Armenia denied that ...
Oct 04, 2020
Russia’s new coronavirus cases top 10,000 for first time since mid-May
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 10,499 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest number of daily infections since May 15, when the outbreak was at its peak and lockdowns were in place. Russia's ...
Oct 04, 2020
Umrah pilgrims return to a Mecca stilled by COVID-19 slump
By Marwa Rashad MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Mecca slowly stirred from a seven-month hibernation on Sunday as pilgrims trickled in after Saudi Arabian authorities partially lifted a coronavirus ban...
Oct 04, 2020
Voting heavy in New Caledonia referendum on independence from France
By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Voters took to the polls in large numbers in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia on Sunday for a referendum on whether to break away from France after n...
Oct 04, 2020
Thousands flock to Mexico City protest against President Lopez Obrador
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through central Mexico City on Saturday in one of the biggest demonstrations against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador since he took office ...
Oct 04, 2020
