Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Global coronavirus deaths hit 900,000 as cases surge in India
By Gayle Issa (Reuters) - The global death toll from the coronavirus passed 900,000 on Wednesday, as worldwide cases topped 27.7 million, according to a Reuters tally. The United States remains the wo...
Sep 09, 2020
Brazil to keep Car Wash anti-corruption squad active through at least January
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The office of Brazil's top prosecutor has decided to keep the Car Wash anti-corruption task force in the southern city of Curitiba active through Jan. 31, it said in a state...
Sep 09, 2020
U.N. peacekeepers resume protection of Congo’s Nobel Laureate
KINSHASA (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers on Wednesday resumed protection of Congo's Nobel Prize Laureate Denis Mukwege, who received death threats in recent weeks after he called for justice o...
Sep 09, 2020
Brazil registers 1,075 new coronavirus deaths: health ministry
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 35,816 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as well as 1,075 deaths from the disease, the Health Ministry said on Wednes...
Sep 09, 2020
Piracy, other high seas crimes rise in Asia: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite the coronavirus pandemic, piracy and other crimes have surged in Asian waters in the first seven months of the year, many committed by a Philippines-based Islamist group...
Sep 09, 2020
South African human rights lawyer George Bizos dies at 92
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Noted South African lawyer George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela in many of his trials during the anti-apartheid struggle and helped win his release from prison, died on W...
Sep 09, 2020
Saudi Arabia King Salman and German Chancellor Merkel discuss G20 over the phone: state news agency
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz called German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discussed the G20 efforts to overcome the coronavirus pandemic consequences, the state news agency...
Sep 09, 2020
Floods kill at least 13 and injure 19 in Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Floods have killed at least 13 people and injured 19 others in Burkina Faso following days of heavy rains across the country, including the capital, the government said on Wedn...
Sep 09, 2020
Canada launches its Black entrepreneurs program
By Mahad Arale TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government has teamed up with some of the country's largest financial institutions to launch a C$221 million ($168 million) program for Black entreprene...
Sep 09, 2020
U.S. set to end enhanced screening of some international travelers for COVID-19: sources
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is set to end enhanced screening of some international passengers for COVID-19 and drop requirements that travelers coming from the targe...
Sep 09, 2020
