Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Distance learning for first seven weeks of school term in Saudi Arabia
CAIRO (Reuters) - Students in Saudi Arabian public schools will be educated via distance learning for the first seven weeks of the new school year, the country's minister of education said on Saturday...
Aug 15, 2020
France reports another post-lockdown peak in daily COVID-19 cases
PARIS (Reuters) - The French Health Ministry on Saturday reported 3,310 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, setting a new post-lockdown high for the fourth day in a row and taking the c...
Aug 15, 2020
Israel condemns U.N. decision not to extend Iran arms embargo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council's decision not to extend an arms embargo on Iran will lead to further Middle East instability, Israel's foreign minister said on Saturday. "The extremis...
Aug 15, 2020
Japanese ship involved in Mauritius oil spill breaks apart
By Omar Mohammed (Reuters) - A Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius last month threatening a marine ecological disaster around the Indian Ocean island has broken apart, author...
Aug 15, 2020
Ireland says fresh COVID-19 spike ‘deeply concerning’
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland reported 200 new COVID-19 cases arising from multiple clusters across the country on Saturday, the highest daily amount since the beginning of May that the country's chief m...
Aug 15, 2020
U.N. Human Rights team probes spike in tension in Chile`s restive Araucania
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Office of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed on Saturday that it had sent a fact-finding team to Chile's restive Araucania region where a jailed ...
Aug 15, 2020
Number of migrants landing in Italy more than doubles in past year
ROME (Reuters) - The number of migrants landing on Italy's shores has more than doubled in the last year as an economic crisis in Tunisia fuels migration in boats across the Mediterranean, Interior Mi...
Aug 15, 2020
Erdogan says Turkey ‘will not back down’ in East Med standoff
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey will not back down to threats of sanctions nor to incursions on its claimed territory in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is in a s...
Aug 15, 2020
Irish tourism boss quits after holidaying abroad
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The chairman of Ireland's tourism authority, former Ryanair Chief Operating Officer Michael Cawley, resigned on Saturday after going on holiday to Italy, contrary to government advi...
Aug 15, 2020
Nearly half of Brazilians say Bolsonaro not to blame for coronavirus death toll, poll says
By Marcelo Rochabrun SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Almost half of Brazilians think President Jair Bolsonaro bears "no responsibility at all" for the country's more than 100,000 dead from the coronavirus pande...
Aug 15, 2020
