Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Protesters set fire to parliament office in Iraq’s Basra
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra set fire to parliament's local office on Friday as security forces fired live rounds in the air to disperse them, a Reuters witne...
Aug 21, 2020
Canada to appeal court ruling that said ‘Safe Third Country’ pact with U.S. was invalid
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government on Friday said it is appealing a Federal Court ruling that struck down on human rights grounds a pact that compels asylum seekers trying to enter Canada via ...
Aug 21, 2020
Brazilian indigenous tribe lifts blockade of key grains export road
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Members of the Kayap indigenous tribe have lifted a blockade of a key grains export road on the fifth day of protest after the state government of Par agreed to talk and hear the...
Aug 21, 2020
U.S. imposes visa restrictions on 14 Iranians over human rights violations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday said it was imposing visa restrictions on 13 Iranian individuals for their involvement in "gross violations of human rights" regarding a 1990 assassi...
Aug 21, 2020
Governor of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state says no longer has coronavirus
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The governor of Brazil's Sao Paulo state, Joao Doria, said on Friday he no longer had coronavirus, less than two weeks after announcing he had tested positive for COVID-19. Doria...
Aug 21, 2020
Malta police question former prime minister over journalist murder
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's former prime minister Joseph Muscat was questioned by police on Friday afternoon about testimony given to officers by the suspected mastermind in the murder of anti-corrup...
Aug 21, 2020
Chilean policeman arrested over blinding of protest student
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean police special forces operative was arrested early on Friday over the blinding with rubber bullets of a student during protests over inequality in Novem...
Aug 21, 2020
Israel hits 100,000 COVID-19 cases amid criticism of government response
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel officially reached a tally of more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Friday as the government struggled to contain a resurgence in infection rates. The latest daily tally s...
Aug 21, 2020
My shed is my castle: one Cuban’s move to self-isolate
HAVANA (Reuters) - Rafael Viguera is taking no risks. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he has traded in his comfortable house in Havana for his roadside, tiny wooden juice shack out by the...
Aug 21, 2020
Belarus opposition summoned; Kremlin seen standing by weakened Lukashenko
By Andrei Makhovsky and Andrew Osborn MINSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case over what President Alex...
Aug 21, 2020
