Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
French police use tear gas as yellow vests return to Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities deployed a heavy police presence in Paris and used tear gas on Saturday as the "yellow vest" movement returned to the capital after being dampened by the coronavir...
Sep 12, 2020
Palestinians rally against Bahrain-Israel normalisation
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli, U.S., Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries' moves to norma...
Sep 12, 2020
Austria’s Kurz reiterates opposition to taking in asylum seekers from Moria
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his go...
Sep 12, 2020
On election eve, several thousand join anti-Kremlin rally in Russian Far East
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several thousand people gathered in Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for what has become a regular weekly protest against the Kremlin since the region's popular g...
Sep 12, 2020
Congo gold miners scour rubble for bodies after cave-in
BUKAVU (Reuters) - Informal gold miners in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo scoured rubble on Saturday for more than 50 colleagues presumed dead after a mine collapsed under the weight of heavy ra...
Sep 12, 2020
Police fire teargas as migrants demand to leave Greek island after fire
By Lefteris Papadimas LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas on Saturday during a protest by angry migrants left homeless by a blaze at Europe's largest refugee centre, who demanded to ...
Sep 12, 2020
Taiwan says plans to sign up for ‘COVAX’ vaccine allocation scheme
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will sign up to the "COVAX" global vaccine allocation plan to ensure it will be able to access a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available, the island's health minister sai...
Sep 12, 2020
Greek police fire teargas at migrants on Lesbos island
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas to disperse a group of migrants protesting on the island of Lesbos on Saturday, four days after fires burnt the overflowing Moria refugee camp to ...
Sep 12, 2020
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari executed: state media
(Reuters) - Iran's champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed after being convicted of stabbing to death a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said on Saturday. A...
Sep 12, 2020
Families of captured Hong Kong activists demand their return from Chinese detention
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A group of Hong Kong families on Saturday demanded the urgent return of their activist relatives detained last month by mainland Chinese authorities as they tried ...
Sep 12, 2020
