Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Deputy PM says time is right for Spain to become a republic
By Graham Keeley (Reuters) - Spain's far-left deputy prime minister said on Saturday that a financial scandal which has rocked the royal family had presented an "historic moment" to push for a republi...
Sep 19, 2020
About 9,000 migrants on Greece’s Lesbos move into tent camp after fire
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Thousands of asylum-seekers have moved into a new temporary facility on the Greek island of Lesbos, government officials said on Saturday, 10 days after a fire destroyed the...
Sep 19, 2020
Kegs tapped in Munich pubs for mini-Oktoberfest in shadow of COVID-19
MUNICH (Reuters) - Innkeepers in Munich tapped their barrels on Saturday for revellers determined to make the most of a scaled-down Oktoberfest after the world's biggest beer festival was cancelled be...
Sep 19, 2020
Russian police detain history professor after protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian policemen detained historian Valery Solovei after he and dozens of other protesters marched through the centre of Moscow on Saturday to show solidarity with protests in the ...
Sep 19, 2020
Lebanese Christian party offers idea to resolve dispute over new cabinet
By Edmund Blair BEIRUT (Reuters) - A party founded by Lebanon's Christian president made a proposal to end a dispute that has blocked the formation of a new cabinet and threatened a French drive to li...
Sep 19, 2020
Belarus police detain dozens of protesters in Minsk
(Reuters) - Belarusian police detained dozens of protesters in central Minsk on Saturday, a witness said, as hundreds of people marched through the city demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko s...
Sep 19, 2020
Surge in Turkish COVID cases pits doctors against politicians
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Resurgent coronavirus cases in Turkey are fuelling tensions between doctors who say the official figures underplay the scale of the outbreak and politicians who accuse the country...
Sep 19, 2020
Indian police arrested a local journalist alleging spying for China
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police in India's capital city on Saturday said they had arrested a local freelance journalist on allegations he was passing "sensitive information" to Chinese intelligence offic...
Sep 19, 2020
Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition activist
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general's office said o...
Sep 19, 2020
Belarus warns EU against inviting Lukashenko’s rival to meeting
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The foreign ministry in Belarus said on Saturday that it saw the possible participation of opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in an EU ministerial meeting as an interfer...
Sep 19, 2020
