Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Lebanon asks Interpol to arrest Russian ship captain, owner over port explosion
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of the ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August, killin...
Oct 01, 2020
50 U.S. senators call for talks on trade agreement with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty U.S. senators from both parties called on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to begin negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan, part of a push...
Oct 01, 2020
Mexico top court backs referendum on prosecuting ex-presidents
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly backed a bid by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to hold a referendum on whether to allow the prosecution of five of his predec...
Oct 01, 2020
After Pompeo criticism, Vatican asserts right to go its own way on China
By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican's number two said on Thursday after talks with Mike Pompeo that the two sides' positions on China remained far apart and firmly asserted the Holy See's ...
Oct 01, 2020
Family of ‘Hotel Rwanda hero’ calls on United States, EU and Belgium to help free him
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - The family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, on Thursday called on the United States, t...
Oct 01, 2020
Scotland’s Sturgeon lambasts virus-positive lawmaker for taking long train journey
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon lambasted one of her lawmakers on Thursday for taking a long train journey back from London up to Scotland despite having received a positive test re...
Oct 01, 2020
Namibia faces tough challenge to reverse apartheid legacy: president
By Axel Threlfall and Nyasha Nyaungwa WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibian President Hage Geingob said on Thursday that the southwestern African country must take care in its efforts to reverse the legacy of...
Oct 01, 2020
Daughter of Belgium’s former king wins long battle to become princess
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian artist who has fought a seven-year legal battle to prove that Belgium's former King Albert II is her father secured a literally crowning success in cou...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. defense chief’s rare Algeria visit points to Sahel region threats
ALGIERS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made a rare visit to Algeria on Thursday for talks with the president about war-torn Libya and the troubled Sahel region to the south of the Sa...
Oct 01, 2020
Canada reintroduces bill banning LGBT conversion therapy
By Mahad Arale TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has reintroduced a bill on Thursday that will criminalize LGBT conversion therapy, a federal minister said after an earlier effort to ban the practice failed ...
Oct 01, 2020
