Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Dutch PM Rutte: no more audiences at sport gatherings for three weeks
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government on Monday announced a raft of new measures intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus including limiting travel, closing bars and restaurants early and d...
Sep 28, 2020
Zimbabwe accuses opposition of gun-smuggling plot
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's state security minister on Monday alleged a plot by "rogue elements" in the opposition working with Western governments to smuggle in guns and fomen...
Sep 28, 2020
Canada’s Quebec expected to announce new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Quebec, the Canadian province hardest hit by the novel coronavirus, reported another sharp increase in daily infections on Monday, amid media reports that Premier Francois Legault...
Sep 28, 2020
Panama to pay $1.9 million for WHO COVID-19 vaccine program
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's health ministry has agreed to spend $1.9 million next month in an initial payment for COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX vaccine program, ...
Sep 28, 2020
Several hundred arrests amid protest calls in Egypt: rights group
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have detained at least 382 people since Sept. 20 amid reports of small, scattered demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a rights group said on M...
Sep 28, 2020
Philippines extends partial coronavirus curbs in Manila until Oct 31
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday partial coronavirus restrictions in and around the capital region will be extended for another month until Oct. 31 to keep the sp...
Sep 28, 2020
Slovakia bans most public cultural, sports events over COVID-19, says PM
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia's government has banned most public cultural and sports events due to the accelerating spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Monday. Matovic told a...
Sep 28, 2020
Spain reports 31,785 new coronavirus cases since Friday
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases reached 748,266 on Monday, rising by 31,785 from Friday's total, health ministry data showed. The cumulative death toll reached 31,411 f...
Sep 28, 2020
Five civilians killed in Baghdad rocket attack: Iraqi military
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi militia groups fired two Katyusha rockets on a house in Baghdad, killing two women and three children and wounding two other children, the Iraqi military said on Monday. The ...
Sep 28, 2020
Nigeria says Mali transition government yet to satisfy regional demands
ABUJA (Reuters) - West African states are not ready to lift sanctions on Mali because the leaders of an Aug. 18 coup have not yet satisfied all the demands for a handover of power to a fully civilian ...
Sep 28, 2020
