Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Pompeo urges Greece and Turkey to press on with talks
ATHENS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged NATO allies Greece and Turkey on Tuesday to continue talks on a maritime boundaries dispute as soon as possible. Greece and Turkey, at logg...
Sep 29, 2020
British PM Johnson to give press conference on Wednesday
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a news conference on Wednesday to provide an update on the country's COVID-19 response alongside his top medical and scientific advise...
Sep 29, 2020
UK’s Johnson says he is fit as a butcher’s dog after losing weight
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he was fitter now than he was before he had COVID-19 in April and that he felt much better after losing weight. Johnson was hosp...
Sep 29, 2020
Iran’s new coronavirus cases exceed 450,000: Health Ministry
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed the 450,000 threshold on Tuesday with 3,677 infections identified in the last 24 hours, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV, as the Is...
Sep 29, 2020
UK upholds decision to not prosecute 15 soldiers for 1972 ‘Bloody Sunday’
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the British region of Northern Ireland on Tuesday upheld a decision not to prosecute 15 soldiers for their role in the killing of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights mar...
Sep 29, 2020
Indian rape victim dies weeks after assault triggering protests
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - A woman from the lowest rung of India's caste system died in hospital on Tuesday weeks after authorities said she was raped by a group of men, triggering p...
Sep 29, 2020
You’re kidding me? Children’s haircut costs rise most in post-lockdown Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Despite a sales tax trim, the cost of a haircut has soared in post-lockdown Germany and rose most for children last month, followed by men and least of all for women, the Federal St...
Sep 29, 2020
‘Laughing stock’: No party for much-delayed new Berlin airport
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin will not hold a party when it opens its new airport on Oct. 31 because it is so embarrassed about how long it took to build, but it will mark the closure of the Tegel airport...
Sep 29, 2020
Pensioners’ paradise lost: COVID sows fear among Cote D’Azur retirees
By Caroline Pailliez and Eric Gaillard NICE, France (Reuters) - On a plot of gravel overlooking the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Jean-Claude Calcagno prepares for a round of petanque, th...
Sep 29, 2020
One million COVID-19 deaths ‘a very sad milestone’, but virus suppressable: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that one million deaths from COVID-19 was "a very sad milestone", after many victims suffered "a terribly difficult and lonely de...
Sep 29, 2020
