Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
South Korean official may have been killed trying to defect to North: Yonhap
By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean fisheries official who went missing on Monday may have been shot dead by North Korean troops and later cremated after attempting to defe...
Sep 23, 2020
Venezuela’s Maduro calls on U.N. members to rally against U.S. sanctions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday all "countries that defend peace" should rally against U.S. sanctions clamped on the South American...
Sep 23, 2020
UK PM Johnson calls on leaders to build back greener after coronavirus
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call on other leaders on Thursday to "build back better" after the coronavirus crisis and commit to net zero emission targets. Addressing t...
Sep 23, 2020
Ivory Coast to free opposition leader’s allies in pre-vote peace gesture, spokesman says
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Seeking to calm tensions in Ivory Coast ahead of a presidential election, the authorities plan to release associates of opposition leader Guillaume Soro who have been held in deten...
Sep 23, 2020
Coronavirus spreads in top echelon of Guatemala’s government
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Four more Guatemalan officials have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities said on Wednesday, after Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and a...
Sep 23, 2020
Eastern Libyan forces say they killed Islamic State leader
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan forces said on Wednesday they killed the leader of the Islamic State group in North Africa during a raid in the southern desert city of Sebha earlier this mo...
Sep 23, 2020
U.S. firm Valentus to raise capital for credit fund via digital currency sale
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investment firm Valentus Capital Management will raise part of a $250 million credit fund through the public sale of its own unique virtual curren...
Sep 23, 2020
Woman jailed under El Salvador’s harsh abortion law walks free from prison
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A Salvadoran woman whom activists say was falsely accused of homicide after suffering a stillbirth has been freed from prison in a case that has sparked ren...
Sep 23, 2020
Chile’s capital becomes hot spot for cougar sightings
By Reuters TV SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A cougar cub was captured in a posh Santiago neighborhood near the foothills of the Andes mountains, National Zoo officials said, the latest in a rash of recent wild...
Sep 23, 2020
Germany warns against travel to three further French regions, Lisbon
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany added the French regions of Centre-Val de Loire, Brittany and Normandy as well as the metropolitan region centred on the Portuguese capital Lisbon to the list of destination...
Sep 23, 2020
