Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Jordan reopens trade gateway with Syria after month-long COVID closure
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria, following a more than month-long closure, after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spread...
Sep 27, 2020
Armenia says it is checking report of Syrian fighters in Azerbaijan
YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenian Defence Ministry said on Sunday it was checking reports about combatants from Syria who are allegedly fighting for the Azerbaijan's side in clashes over the breakaway...
Sep 27, 2020
Mali president names Moctar Ouane as interim Prime Minister
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Former foreign minister Moctar Ouane was named as Mali's interim Prime Minister, state television said on Sunday, a move likely to trigger the lifting of sanctions imposed by the We...
Sep 27, 2020
UK reports 5,693 coronavirus cases on Sunday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain recorded 5,693 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, down on the 6,042 reported a day earlier, data published on the government's website showed. (Reporting by Costas Pitas; e...
Sep 27, 2020
Jordan’s monarch dissolves parliament in preparation for Nov election: official
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah dissolved parliament on Sunday, officials said, which under constitutional rules means the government must resign within a week, paving the way for elections i...
Sep 27, 2020
UK police arrest man connected with fatal shooting of police officer
LONDON (Reuters) - London's police said on Sunday a man had been arrested on suspicion of supplying a firearm in connection with the investigation into the fatal shooting early on Friday of a British ...
Sep 27, 2020
Belarusian police detain protesters as tens of thousands rally against Lukashenko
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian security forces began detaining people on Sunday as tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Minsk for the seventh straight weekend calling on veter...
Sep 27, 2020
China’s Xi says ‘happiness’ in Xinjiang on the rise, will keep teaching ‘correct’ outlook
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are rising and that China plans to keep teaching its residents a "c...
Sep 27, 2020
Dutch corona cases reach daily record of 2,995: health authorities
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The number of new coronavirus infections in the Netherlands hit a daily record of 2,995 on Sunday, data released by health authorities showed. Coronavirus infections in the count...
Sep 27, 2020
‘Multiple dangers’: Lebanese patriarch warns of crisis without a government
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced "multiple dangers" that would be hard to weather without a government, speaking a day after the prime minister-designa...
Sep 27, 2020
