Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
U.S. approves sale of jets and Patriot missiles to Switzerland
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of two types of fighter jets and several Patriot missile systems to Switzerland as the country modernizes...
Sep 30, 2020
Peru to restart international flights to some regional countries as it eases coronavirus restrictions
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will restart international flights to some regional countries, the government said on Wednesday, as it aims to lift coronavirus restrictions and reopen its economy. Flights to 11...
Sep 30, 2020
Rockets land near Erbil airport, Iraqi Kurdish security sources say
SULAIMANIYA/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Three rockets launched near Erbil International Airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq were intercepted mid-air and a fourth landed near the headqu...
Sep 30, 2020
Three Portuguese immigration officers charged over fatal beating of Ukrainian traveller
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Three Portuguese immigration officers have been charged with murder over the fatal beating of a Ukrainian man detained at Lisbon airport for trying to enter the c...
Sep 30, 2020
Madrid heads for lockdown after Spain announces new virus restrictions
MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid residents are set to be barred from leaving the city except on essential trips under new coronavirus restrictions announced by the Spanish government on Wednesday. The city's...
Sep 30, 2020
France’s new COVID-19 cases above the 10,000 threshold again
PARIS (Reuters) - France's new COVID-19 cases increased by more than 10,000 for the first time in three days on Wednesday while the number of people hospitalised with the disease rose by almost a hund...
Sep 30, 2020
Afghan peace official sees litle change in U.S. policy regardless of election result
By Charlotte Greenfield and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan's top peace official, Abdullah Abdullah, said on Wednesday he did not expect the result of the upcoming U.S. presi...
Sep 30, 2020
Ontario facing ‘remarkably high surge’ of COVID-19 cases: modeling
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario could reach 1,000 new COVID-19 cases per day in the first half of October, according to new projections released on Wednesday that showed Canada's most populous province on...
Sep 30, 2020
Colombia’s land, water borders to remain closed in October
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's land and water borders will remain closed until Nov. 1, the country's migration agency said on Wednesday, in an effort to stem coronavirus infections. The Andean country,...
Sep 30, 2020
Belarus court sentences top basketball player to 15 days’ jail
MINSK (Reuters) - A Minsk court on Wednesday sentenced Belarusian basketball player Yelena Levchenko to 15 days in jail for taking part in protests demanding the resignation of President Alexander Luk...
Sep 30, 2020
