Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Australia asks Google to block users ‘walking’ sacred site
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has asked Google to remove photographs of the top of the sacred Indigenous site, Uluru, a tool that allowed users to appear to walk on its summit. Austral...
Sep 23, 2020
Thai royalists march against calls for amending constitution
By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thai royalists marched to parliament on Wednesday to oppose calls from anti-government protesters for changes to the constitution as the assembl...
Sep 23, 2020
Malaysia reports 147 new coronavirus cases, three new deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 147 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking the total to 10,505 infections. The health ministry also reported three new deaths, raising the total number o...
Sep 23, 2020
Philippine police, military disown fake Facebook accounts
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine police and military on Wednesday denied any links to Facebook accounts that were taken down by the social media giant after it said they had engaged in "coordinated i...
Sep 23, 2020
China to allow foreigners with valid residence permits to enter from Sept 28
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday foreigners with valid residence permits can enter the country without needing to re-apply for visas from Sept. 28. Foreigners whose resid...
Sep 23, 2020
With echoes of Brexit, Swiss set to vote on immigration
By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters will decide on Sunday whether to tear up a pact with the European Union on the free movement of people, after a referendum campaign that exposed rift...
Sep 23, 2020
EU chief negotiator ‘determined’ to get Brexit deal
LONDON (Reuters) - EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday he was determined to reach a deal with Britain, declining to comment on legislation that the British government says could breac...
Sep 23, 2020
UK’s new COVID measures met with scepticism, confusion
By Sarah Young and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - The British government on Wednesday defended its new, stricter coronavirus measures against criticism that they did not got far enough, saying it was ...
Sep 23, 2020
HK court rejects Joshua Wong’s challenge to 2019 election disqualification
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court rejected on procedural grounds on Wednesday a challenge by pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to his disqualification from district elections in the city last y...
Sep 23, 2020
Lukashenko abruptly sworn in for new presidential term in Belarus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a new term on Wednesday, the official news agency Belta said, in a sudden inauguration conducted with no prior announcemen...
Sep 23, 2020
