Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
‘I looked him in the eyes’: Pakistan family watches mosque shooter face justice in New Zealand
By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Around 3 a.m. each morning this week, Khurshid Alam woke up in his Pakistan home to watch survivors give testimony against the man who shot dead 51 worshi...
Aug 27, 2020
London Zoo weighs animals after lockdown blues
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - London Zoo began an annual weigh-in on Thursday with keepers keen to find out what effect the zoo's longest closure since World War Two has had on its animals, having ...
Aug 27, 2020
Who else but Navalny? Kremlin critic’s illness a blow for campaign to break Putin’s grip
By Tom Balmforth and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's sudden illness has upended his strategy to challenge Vladimir Putin's grip on power at upcoming regional elections....
Aug 27, 2020
Dousing the flames: Israel battles Gaza fire balloon blazes
By Amir Cohen BE'ERI, Israel (Reuters) - In a burnt and blackened wheat field along the Gaza border, Israeli firefighters brave the dry summer heat to extinguish blazes caused by fire balloons launche...
Aug 27, 2020
Poland summons Belarus ambassador over ‘unfounded accusations’
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Thursday it had summoned the Belarus ambassador to protest at "unfounded accusations" after Belarusian media said President Alexander Lukashenko had accused Warsaw of...
Aug 27, 2020
Russia’s finance ministry says Belarus yet to ask it for $1 billion loan refinancing: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus has not yet asked the Russian Finance Ministry to refinance a $1 billion loan, the ministry was quoted by TASS as saying on Thursday, shortly after the Belarusian leader sai...
Aug 27, 2020
Chilean truckers start strike over insecurity in southern Araucania
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean truckers went on strike on Thursday in protest over violence affecting them in the country's restive Araucania province and the slow progress through cong...
Aug 27, 2020
Pompeo says reported Chinese vessels near Galapagos ‘deeply troubling’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said reports of hundreds of Chinese vessels near the Galapagos Islands were "deeply troubling," following recent reports out of E...
Aug 27, 2020
Israel holds tender for flight to United Arab Emirates next week
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's government has asked the country's airlines to submit bids for a special flight to carry an Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump to the United ...
Aug 27, 2020
Frans Hals painting ‘Two Laughing Boys’ stolen: police
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A painting by Frans Hals has been stolen from a small museum in the Netherlands, police said on Thursday. The painting, "Two Laughing Boys" dating from 1626, was taken from the H...
Aug 27, 2020
