Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Burundi impunity for abuses continues, says U.N. report, as another mass grave opened
GENEVA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Impunity for rape, murder and other abuses is still widespread in Burundi despite a change of government, a U.N. report released on Thursday said. The report comes days afte...
Sep 17, 2020
Hawaii to allow pre-travel test option to skip quarantine on arrival
(Reuters) - Hawaii Governor David Ige said on Wednesday the state's pre-travel testing progam would give travelers the option of potentially avoiding a 14-day quarantine period on arrival from next mo...
Sep 17, 2020
Poland wants EU to pledge at least 1 billion euros to stabilize Belarus
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Poland wants the European Union to offer Belarus financial assistance of at least 1 billion euros, Prime Minster Mateusz Morawiecki said. "The fund should indeed be significant. .....
Sep 17, 2020
Delhi police file rioting charges against government critics
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have filed charges against 15 people over Hindu-Muslim riots in the capital, a spokesman said on Thursday, prompting criticism from rights groups th...
Sep 17, 2020
Uganda reverses forest destruction by inviting in … loggers
By Elias Biryabarema KALAGALA, Uganda (Reuters) - For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda's forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimp...
Sep 17, 2020
In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance
ARTAS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with ...
Sep 17, 2020
Defying protests and poverty, Haitians get creative to wed in style
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - As anti-government protesters in Haiti's capital blocked principal roads and clashed with police last year, Stanley Joseph and Daphne Gerard used the city's winding and poth...
Sep 17, 2020
China-backed telecom firm says won’t spy on Philippines
By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - A new Philippine telecoms firm with Chinese state investment on Thursday described as "truly misplaced" concerns that communications equipment ...
Sep 17, 2020
Philippines considers relaxing travel ban for nurses
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is considering allowing more nurses and other medical professionals to leave for jobs abroad after banning them from travel so they can fight coronavir...
Sep 17, 2020
WHO’s Ryan: Need consistent messaging, mustn’t turn COVID-19 into “political football”
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's top emergency expert, asked on Thursday about contradictory remarks by President Donald Trump and U.S. health officials, said that it was important f...
Sep 17, 2020
