Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) World News (Master Feed)
Israel halts fuel shipments to Gaza over fire balloon launches
TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) - Israel on Thursday said it will stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland...
Aug 13, 2020
Turkey says operations against Kurdish militants in Iraq to continue, urges Baghdad to cooperate
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will continue its cross-border operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq if Baghdad continues to overlook the militants' presence in the region, the foreign minis...
Aug 13, 2020
Released tycoon Lai says Hong Kong needs patient, not radical, democracy campaign
By Yanni Chow HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Thursday he was overwhelmed by the support he got after becoming the most high-profile person to be arrested under a new na...
Aug 13, 2020
India’s coronavirus cases jump by 67,000, setting daily record
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, while the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 47,000. Infections grew by 66,999 on Thursday f...
Aug 13, 2020
Taiwan proposes 10% increase in defence spending for 2021
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence spending in 2021 is set to grow 10.2% compared with this year, according to Reuters calculations from government figures released on Thursday, ramping up investment...
Aug 12, 2020
North Korea nuclear reactor site threatened by recent flooding, U.S. think-tank says
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - Satellite imagery suggests recent flooding in North Korea may have damaged pump houses connected to the country's main nuclear facility, a U.S.-based think-tank said on...
Aug 12, 2020
New Zealand scrambles to trace cluster, reporting 14 new virus cases
(Reuters) - New Zealand officials were scrambling to trace the source of an outbreak of the coronavirus, reporting 14 new cases on Thursday, as long queues of people formed to escape a renewed lockdow...
Aug 12, 2020
Australian anti-aircraft gunner recounts World War Two bombing of Darwin
By Jonathan Barrett and Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Lindsay Dufty remembers seeing the pilots' faces as Japanese bombers descended on Darwin in February 1942, the first ever enemy attack over Austr...
Aug 12, 2020
Mexico to phase out use of herbicide glyphosate
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will gradually phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesda...
Aug 12, 2020
Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases almost at 500,000
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's health ministry on Wednesday reported 5,858 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 737 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 498,380 ca...
Aug 12, 2020
