Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Exclusive: Hong Kong survey shows support grows for pro-democracy goals, 44% back protest movement
(Reuters) - A growing majority of people in Hong Kong support the pro-democracy movement's goals after China introduced a national security law for the city, but backing for the protest movement was a...
Aug 29, 2020
Victoria, Australia sees new COVID-19 cases back in triple digits
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Victoria, Australia posted 114 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, a day after they fell to 94 which had put them below triple digits for the first time in nearly two months. Vic...
Aug 29, 2020
Divided Montenegro on course for knife-edge election
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegrins go to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that looks too close to call, with neither the long-ruling pro-Western party nor a rival pro-Russian alliance t...
Aug 29, 2020
A picture and its story: The despair of a Rio widow, in a city struggling with violence
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work be...
Aug 29, 2020
Duchess Kate judges photography project capturing lockdown Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has helped choose 100 final images from more than 31,000 submissions made to Hold Still, a photography project she launched in Ma...
Aug 29, 2020
Rocket falls inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, no casualties, police sources say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Katyusha rocket landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, causing damage to an empty building and no casualties, Iraqi police sources said on Saturday. Sirens blasted fro...
Aug 29, 2020
Istanbul restricts indoor ceremonies as COVID cases, deaths rise
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Authorities in Istanbul announced curbs on weddings and other ceremonies in Turkey's largest city on Saturday as the number of daily coronavirus cases and deaths hit their highest...
Aug 29, 2020
Syrian opposition urges major powers to back nationwide ceasefire
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The main Syrian opposition called on major powers on Saturday to help clinch a nationwide ceasefire in coming months to pave the way for a political transition ...
Aug 29, 2020
Women march through Belarusian capital calling for Lukashenko to step down
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several thousand women marched in the capital of Belarus on Saturday waving flags, flowers and balloons in the latest in a series of anti-government protests that have gripped the c...
Aug 29, 2020
Brazil’s Pantanal, world’s largest wetland, burns from above and below
By Jake Spring POCON, Brazil (Reuters) - The world's largest wetland is ablaze, but the fire is often invisible. In Brazil's Pantanal, the vegetation compacted under the marshy flood water during the ...
Aug 29, 2020
