Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is making an aggressive move to grab enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times over, a push the government hopes will instil confidence t...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India reported a record daily jump of 77,266 coronavirus infections on Friday, taking its total to 3.39 million, as cases surged across the country, data from the federal health min...

By Yimou Lee TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Friday to defend the island with a "solid" air force as she launched a U.S.-backed maintenance centre for the island's ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was open to discussions over whether Australian mass killer Brenton Tarrant, jailed for life without parole this week for the New Zealan...

By Sunil Kataria NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In his golden-hued office, decked out with peacock feathers and crystal balls, Indian mystic healer and astrologer Sanjay Sharma is busy offering his clients a p...

By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities stopped short of shifting the country up to the highest level of social distancing measures on Friday, despite recording another...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Havana's governor announced an overnight curfew, ban on travel from the Cuban capital to other provinces and greater restrictions on the circulation of vehicles on Thursday in a bid...

By Edgar Su and Joseph Campbell SINGAPORE (Reuters) - From the high balcony of a Singapore public housing block, an environment official steadies his mosquito launcher, the latest contraption authorit...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 21-year-old man told Reuters he was beaten and humiliated by guards in a Hong Kong prison during his sentence for possessing a Molotov cocktail at an anti-govern...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Thursday reported 6,026 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, bringing the total in the country to 579,914 cases. It reported the same numbe...