Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Thailand’s ‘Bad Students’ demand education reform
By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's "Bad Student" campaigners toured Bangkok high schools in a truck on Friday in a protest cheered on by pupils to demand educat...
Oct 02, 2020
Armenia says it will work with OSCE on Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia said on Friday it would engage with a European security watchdog on renewing a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh as the death tol...
Oct 02, 2020
Malaysia reports 287 new coronavirus cases, biggest daily jump
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 287 new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to the health ministry, the highest daily increase since the country started tracking the spread of the pandem...
Oct 02, 2020
Irish PM calls for EU solidarity on Brexit bill, trade talks to go on
By Philip Blenkinsop and Elizabeth Piper BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Friday Britain must respect Brexit arrangements for the sensitive Irish border as t...
Oct 02, 2020
Catalonia could hold regional elections on February 14
MADRID (Reuters) - The northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia could hold regional elections on Feb.14, the speaker of the regional assembly Roger Torrent told RAC1 radio on Friday, after the region'...
Oct 02, 2020
Russian ally Kyrgyzstan holds election on Sunday amid wave of discontent
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan, Russia's closest ally in Central Asia, will vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday amid signs of widespread disaffection with the ruling elite. Potential unrest in ...
Oct 02, 2020
Scotland’s first minister calls on lawmaker to resign over breaking COVID rules
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, called on one of her lawmakers to resign on Friday after Margaret Ferrier admitted that she had travelled while suffering symptoms of COV...
Oct 02, 2020
Ethiopia region arrests 503 on feared violence at weekend festival
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Police in Ethiopia's Oromiya region have arrested 503 people on accusations they planned to cause violence during an annual thanksgiving festival this ...
Oct 02, 2020
Somali women’s basketball team defy prejudice, hostility
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Whistles screech on the sea breeze as three female Somali coaches inspect a line of women in black and blue headscarves dribbling basketballs. It's not just the he...
Oct 02, 2020
Blasphemy convictions spark Nigerian debate over sharia law
By Alexis Akwagyiram and Abraham Achirga LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Fuad Adeyemi, an imam in Nigeria's capital Abuja, respects those who believe that a 22-year-old man accused of sharing a blasphemous me...
Oct 02, 2020
