Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Malaysian leaders draw flak after post-election virus jump
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysians took to social media on Friday to lambast politicians for violating social distancing protocols and refusing to self-isolate, after the country re...
Oct 02, 2020
UK university students’ first lesson: coping with COVID
By Paul Sandle and Ben Dangerfield LONDON (Reuters) - For thousands of new students in Britain, their first weeks of university have been all too similar to their final weeks of school, marked by lock...
Oct 02, 2020
Turkey orders 17 jailed pending trial over 2014 Kobani protests
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court ordered the pre-trial detention on Friday of 17 people, including senior pro-Kurdish opposition members, for their role in violent protests against the army's inac...
Oct 02, 2020
Madrid regional authorities to lock down city in coming hours, source says
MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid's regional authorities will in the coming hours publish a decree to put the Spanish capital and nine nearby towns under partial lockdown, with immediate effect, a source from...
Oct 02, 2020
Duterte ally seeks Philippine senate probe on Facebook ‘censorship’
MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine senator on Friday sought an inquiry into what he described as "censorship" by Facebook after the social media giant took down a network of accounts it said were inauthe...
Oct 02, 2020
Tunisia reports daily coronavirus record of 1308 cases
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia recorded 1,308 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Friday, a record since the start of the pandemic, prompting the government to impose ...
Oct 02, 2020
Face masks become mandatory in Rome as coronavirus cases rise
ROME (Reuters) - Face masks will have to be worn at all times out of doors in the Italian capital Rome and the surrounding Lazio region, local authorities ruled on Friday in an effort to counter risin...
Oct 02, 2020
Turkey criticises EU for continued reference to sanctions
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday many areas of the European Union summit decisions concerning Turkey were "divorced from realities", voicing concern about the bloc's co...
Oct 02, 2020
Refugees in their own country as wildfire destroys California towns
By Sharon Bernstein NEVADA CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - Jeannie Weber could probably rebuild her ruined house in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. But as wildfires rage with increasin...
Oct 02, 2020
Merkel to meet with Belarus opposition’s Tsikhanouskaya
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Berlin on Tuesday, a German government spokeswoman said on Friday. The meetin...
Oct 02, 2020
