Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Brazilian indigenous tribe blocks key grains export route BR-163: witness
NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil (Reuters) - Members of the Kayap tribe blocked a key grains transport route in center-west Brazil, a Reuters witness saw on Monday, protesting a perceived lack of protection fro...
Aug 17, 2020
Amazon blazes burn forest, farmland and threaten homes
PORTO VELHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Residents and firefighters in northwestern Brazil are battling fires that are raging in the Amazon, destroying farmland and threatening their homes. The blazes, that oc...
Aug 17, 2020
Gaza rapper, 11, strikes chord with rhymes about war and hardship
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza rapper Abdel-Rahman Al-Shantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people, conve...
Aug 17, 2020
Pandemic starts to surge in conflict-hit Libya
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - As coronavirus cases surge in Libya, medics and officials working with a health system wrecked by years of division and war are warning that the pandemic could be s...
Aug 17, 2020
Mexican president volunteers to try Russian coronavirus vaccine
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would volunteer to be among the first to try a Russian vaccine for the novel coronavirus if it proved effective....
Aug 17, 2020
Pakistan Taliban reunite with two splinter groups as army hails battle success
By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have brought two splinter groups back into their fold, they announced in a statement, days after the army said anti-militant operat...
Aug 17, 2020
U.S. won’t approve Israeli annexations for ‘some time’, Kushner says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for "some time," preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE normalisation deal and wider regional p...
Aug 17, 2020
Congo Ebola responders strike over unpaid salaries
By Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on strike over unpaid salaries, hurting th...
Aug 17, 2020
On eve of Hariri verdict, Lebanese grapple with new ordeal
By Tom Perry and Ghaida Ghantous BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 15 years since Lebanon's Rafik al-Hariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut, the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal into his assa...
Aug 17, 2020
Australia, France object to release of final Taliban prisoners: officials
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Some Western nations including France and Australia have urged Afghanistan not to free all of a final batch of prisoners demanded by Taliban militants, official...
Aug 17, 2020
