Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
How big gatherings spread COVID-19: German scientists stage concert experiment
LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Around 1,500 volunteers equipped with face masks, hand disinfectant and tracking gadgets attended an indoor concert in Germany on Saturday as part of a study to simulate h...
Aug 22, 2020
Lukashenko says he will close Belarus factories that are seeing protests: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday he would close factories that have seen worker protests, the Russian RIA news agency reported, his latest attempt to quell a ...
Aug 22, 2020
Swiss People’s Party elects only candidate Chiesa as president
By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss People's Party (SVP) elected Marco Chiesa from Italian-speaking region Ticino as president of the right-wing party on Saturday as it tries to sharpen i...
Aug 22, 2020
Lukashenko must leave sooner or later, opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya says
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The people of Belarus will not allow President Alexander Lukashenko to treat them as before and he will have to leave sooner or later, his main opponent, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, ...
Aug 22, 2020
West African mediators jet to Mali seeking reversal of coup
BAMAKO/LONDON (Reuters) - Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that has been condemned abroad, but celebrated by many in a country...
Aug 22, 2020
Basra killings undermine Iraqi PM’s efforts to rein in militias
By Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi had just embarked on a state visit to Washington when gunmen shot dead the young protest leader Reham Yacoub in her car in Basr...
Aug 22, 2020
Three men killed in north Lebanon shooting, security sources say
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Three men were killed in a shooting in a village in northern Lebanon overnight, security sources and the National News Agency said on Saturday. The gunfire came from a car which the...
Aug 22, 2020
Suspected Islamist militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages
By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, t...
Aug 22, 2020
Israel’s coronavirus chief urges Ukraine to ban Jewish pilgrimage
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The head of Israel's coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town o...
Aug 22, 2020
U.N. nuclear chief Grossi to visit Iran ‘this week’, Iranian envoy says
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Iran in that role "this week", Iran's ambassador to the agency said on Saturday as the two sides are in a...
Aug 22, 2020
