Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Ireland delays reopening of Dublin bars as COVID-19 case numbers climb
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government delayed on Tuesday the planned reopening of all pubs in Dublin following a surge in COVID-19 cases in the capital, but bars across the rest of the country will ...
Sep 15, 2020
Greece ready for talks with Turkey if ‘encouraging step’ is pursued
By Angeliki Koutantou and Orhan Coskun ATHENS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Greece said on Tuesday it was ready for talks with Turkey over contested Mediterranean waters if Ankara continues "disengaging itself" ...
Sep 15, 2020
More than 50 prisoners starve to death in east Congo prison
By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient gov...
Sep 15, 2020
UK says following court case of Zimbabwe journalist
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday he was following the court case in Zimbabwe of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who has been critical of President Emmerson Mnan...
Sep 15, 2020
Egypt cuts highways across pyramids plateau, alarming conservationists
By Patrick Werr MEMPHIS, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an internati...
Sep 15, 2020
Yemen warring parties to travel to Switzerland to discuss prisoner releases
DUBAI (Reuters) - Delegations from Yemen's warring parties will meet on Thursday in Switzerland to discuss a United Nations-backed agreement on prisoner releases, a Houthi spokesman and a U.N. source ...
Sep 15, 2020
Pompeo says fewer than 200 al Qaeda left in Afghanistan today
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that there are fewer than 200 al Qaeda left in Afghanistan today. Pompeo was speaking at an Atlantic Council event. (Reportin...
Sep 15, 2020
Algeria upholds conviction of journalist; rights groups fear new crackdown
ALGIERS (Reuters) - An Algerian appeals court upheld the conviction of a journalist on Tuesday in what rights campaigners called a new crackdown on dissent aimed at preventing the revival of mass prot...
Sep 15, 2020
Ring found in mass grave brings closure to Spanish civil war victim’s family
By Juan Medina EL ESPINAR, Spain (Reuters) - A wedding ring worn by her father 84 years ago when he was shot dead by General Francisco Franco's fascist forces finally gave certainty to Rosa Maria Insu...
Sep 15, 2020
At least 24 migrants drowned off Libya: IOM
GENEVA (Reuters) - Two dozen migrants and refugees on board a rubber dinghy trying to cross from Libya to Europe are believed to have drowned after their boat capsized, the UN's International Organiza...
Sep 15, 2020
