Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
U.N. warns of Libya arms build-up and virus surge
TUNIS (Reuters) - The United Nations acting Libya envoy said on Wednesday that foreign supporters of both sides in the civil war were helping them stockpile weapons in breach of an arms embargo and as...
Sep 02, 2020
Turkey seeing second peak of COVID-19 outbreak, health minister says
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is seeing the second peak of the coronavirus outbreak due to "carelessness" at weddings and other social gatherings, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday, amid a ...
Sep 02, 2020
Greece imposes negative COVID-19 test rule for visiting Russians
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will require visitors from Russia to show a negative COVID-19 test before entering the country between Sept. 7 and Sept. 21, its civil aviation authority said on Wednesday. U...
Sep 02, 2020
Madrid shuts teacher testing center as virus fears grow
MADRID (Reuters) - Authorities in Madrid shut down a coronavirus testing center for teachers on Wednesday after large crowds formed outside, while the health ministry diagnosed 3,663 new cases of the ...
Sep 02, 2020
Students blockade top arts university as Hungary’s government tightens control
By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Students at Hungary's University of Theatre and Film Arts have sealed entrances to the building to stop the new board of trustees getting in, and pledged to main...
Sep 02, 2020
Italy’s former PM Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently in isolation at home, his staff said in a statement on Wednesday. Berlusconi, 83, ...
Sep 02, 2020
Tibetan soldier’s death near tense India-China border sheds light on covert unit
By Rupam Jain and Devjyot Ghoshal MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The death of a Tibetan member of an Indian special forces unit in a mine blast near the site of a border flare-up with Chinese troops ha...
Sep 02, 2020
French roadmap sets blistering pace for Lebanon to change course
By Tom Perry and Raya Jalabi BEIRUT (Reuters) - A French roadmap for Lebanon's next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered eco...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. to cut $100 million in aid to Ethiopia over GERD dam dispute
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States had decided to cut $100 million in aid to Ethiopia amid a dispute with Egypt and Sudan over a megadam that Ethiopia is building on the Nil...
Sep 02, 2020
More than 200 migrants stuck in Gran Canaria dockside camp
By Borja Suarez GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's coast guard rescued three boatloads of migrants from waters off Gran Canaria on Wednesday, bringing them ashore to join another 150 people force...
Sep 02, 2020
