Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Biden on North Korea: Fewer summits, tighter sanctions, same standoff
By Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin and Trevor Hunnicutt SEOUL/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - No more "Little Rocket Man", exchanging love letters or summit pageantry. If Joe Biden is elected U.S. president, Am...
Aug 20, 2020
Latin America passes 250,000 death toll from COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO/SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The number of reported COVID-19 deaths in Latin America passed 250,000 on Thursday, as the virus continues to devastate the region that has become the worst affecte...
Aug 20, 2020
Mexico to get at least 2,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik vaccine to test
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will receive at least 2,000 doses of Russia's potential COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed 'Sputnik V', to test among its population, a senior Mexican government official said on ...
Aug 20, 2020
Morocco may reimpose full lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge: King
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco could return to a complete coronavirus lockdown as cases continue to spike, Moroccan King Mohammed VI said on Thursday, warning of severe economic repercussions. The warning ...
Aug 20, 2020
Brazil bars Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 help to indigenous villages
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government has not allowed Mdecins Sans Frontires to provide assistance to prevent and detect suspected cases of COVID-19 in seven villages of the Terena indigenous ...
Aug 20, 2020
U.S. says Maduro blocking Americans from leaving Venezuela
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blocking U.S. citizens in the country from leaving, rebuffing efforts by Washington to arrange humanitarian evacuation f...
Aug 20, 2020
Brazil coronavirus cases tops 3.5 million, fatalities exceed 112,000: health ministry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported 45,323 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,204 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday. Brazil ...
Aug 20, 2020
U.N. water rights expert questions Chile’s avocado and energy priorities
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday faced questioning by a United Nations water rights expert who suggested the government could be placing economic development over human rights t...
Aug 20, 2020
Indigenous protest over COVID-19 resumes on Brazilian grain highway
By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Thursday blocked a key Brazilian grain highway in the Amazon state of Para, the federal highway police said, resuming a protest that...
Aug 20, 2020
U.S. outraged by killing of anti-government activists in Iraq: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was outraged by the assassination of civil society activists in Iraq and by attacks on protesters in Baghdad and Basra. "We urge th...
Aug 20, 2020
