Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
India secures its east after western Himalaya clashes with China
By Krishna N. Das GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - India has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since clashes erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their bor...
Sep 02, 2020
Pandemic, Malay power lend popularity boost to Malaysia PM: poll
By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been rated highly by voters, according to a poll published on Wednesday, on his handling of the coronavirus pa...
Sep 02, 2020
Chinese university slammed for telling female students to spurn ‘overly revealing’ dress
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese university sparked widespread outrage at the start of the academic year this week as female students discovered that they were not supposed to wear anything deemed overly...
Sep 02, 2020
‘Now we are ruined’: Lebanon’s embattled savers try to rebuild
By Ghaida Ghantous and Issam Abdullah BEIRUT (Reuters) - Like many Lebanese expatriates, Nadim Srour wired savings back as a nest egg for his return. Now those deposits have crumbled in an economic cr...
Sep 02, 2020
UK looks at diverting aid budget to defence and intelligence: The Times
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak is seeking to divert billions of pounds from foreign aid to pay for upgrades to Britain's intelligence and defence capabilities, The Times newsp...
Sep 02, 2020
Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing's stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to...
Sep 02, 2020
Everyone could be a carrier: Covering the pandemic in rural India
By Danish Siddiqui BHAGALPUR, India (Reuters) - "Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease," a doctor said to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover...
Sep 01, 2020
Solomons province pushes for independence in ‘China switch’ fallout
By Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) - The large Solomon Islands province of Malaita said it will conduct an independence referendum after rejecting the Pacific nation's decision last year to cut its ...
Sep 01, 2020
North Korean troops, vehicles seen preparing for huge parade, U.S. think-tank says
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - Masses of North Korean troops and vehicles have been practicing for a major military parade despite the country's ongoing coronavirus restrictions, satellite imagery re...
Sep 01, 2020
Tunisia’s parliament approves a technocratic government
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's parliament approved a technocratic government in a confidence vote on Wednesday, hoping to end months of political instability so the country can focus on tackling worsenin...
Sep 01, 2020
