Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Germany’s Merkel vows to avoid full national lockdown in pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants to avoid a full national lockdown at all costs by quickly tracking infection chains and shutting down local outbreaks, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday. "We wa...
Sep 29, 2020
UK reports record daily figure of 7,143 COVID-19 cases
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 7,143 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest single figure to date, and 71 deaths, the biggest toll since July. Lockdown measures are being imposed across...
Sep 29, 2020
U.S. renews pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei in new networks
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China's surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington...
Sep 29, 2020
Russia lengthens prison sentence for Gulag historian to 13 years: Ifax cites lawyer
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday lengthened the prison sentence for Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes who was charged with sexually abusing his adopted daughter, to 13 years...
Sep 29, 2020
Britain imposes sanctions on Belarus leader and aides
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - Britain has imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and seven other officials over election fraud and violence against protesters, Foreign Secret...
Sep 29, 2020
Canada will impose sanctions on Belarus president, other senior officials
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is imposing sanctions against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and 10 other senior officials for committing human rights violations, the foreign ministry said in a stat...
Sep 29, 2020
Syrian amputee gets new lease of life from designing prosthetics, helping others
ALEPPO PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - Abdelmawla Ibrahim was only 16 when he felt his life was over. While driving through a checkpoint with his family in northern Syria, a stray bullet pierced his left ...
Sep 29, 2020
Meghan loses latest court battle with UK tabloid newspaper
LONDON (Reuters) - Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has lost the latest skirmish in her privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper, after London's High Court ruled on Tuesday the paper could amen...
Sep 29, 2020
Kuwait’s ruler Emir Sheikh Sabah dies
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has died, his office said in a statement read out on state television on Tuesday. Sheikh Sabah, 91, had ruled the Gulf Arab oil p...
Sep 29, 2020
Belarus to sanction some 300 officials from Baltic states in tit-for-tat move: Belta
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it would impose sanctions against some 300 officials from the Baltic states in retaliation for their imposition of travel bans on mor...
Sep 29, 2020
