Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Dutch ‘living coffin’ aims to provide source for life after death
DELFT (Reuters) - A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants. The ...
Sep 22, 2020
Turkey’s Erdogan floats regional conference in tense east Mediterranean
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday proposed a regional conference with all Mediterranean coastal states, including the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, to address tensio...
Sep 22, 2020
France still pushing for new Lebanese cabinet after missed deadline
PARIS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - France is pressing Lebanese politicians to form a new government in a "reasonable timeframe" to lift the nation out of a deep crisis but has not fixed a new deadline after the...
Sep 22, 2020
‘We do our best’: fuel shortages make Yemen doctors’ lives even harder
SANAA (Reuters) - In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Ghazaaly's kidney dialysis machine often cuts out due to an escalating fuel shortage in the country's north. When the electricity generator r...
Sep 22, 2020
German state of Bavaria tightens coronavirus restrictions
MUNICH (Reuters) - The southern German state of Bavaria ordered new measures on Tuesday to fight a resurging coronavirus pandemic, including tighter limits on numbers of people meeting, more mask-wear...
Sep 22, 2020
Turkey’s Erdogan says COVID-19 vaccine must be for everyone
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said in an address to the United Nations on Tuesday any future COVID-19 vaccine should be universally available, regardless of where it is ...
Sep 22, 2020
Former UK finance minister Javid says he will now back UK Internal Market Bill
LONDON (Reuters) - Former British finance minister Sajid Javid said he would now support legislation that breaks an international treaty with the European Union, saying government compromises had chan...
Sep 22, 2020
Pandemic forces Nobel Foundation to cancel live prize ceremony
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will not get their medals and diplomas presented to them at Stockholm's concert hall as usual due to the coronavirus pandemic, the award o...
Sep 22, 2020
“Unacceptable” if Mexicans subjected to medical abuse in U.S. custody, minister says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is interviewing at least six women who may have been subject to improper hysterectomies at an immigration detention center in the U.S. state of Georgia, Foreign Minister...
Sep 22, 2020
Trump to tell U.N. it ‘must hold China accountable for their actions’ on virus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will tell the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday it "must hold China accountable for their actions" related to the coronavirus pandemic. "The...
Sep 22, 2020
