Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Turkey will not bow to threats in east Med, wants negotiation -Erdogan
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not bow to threats in its dispute with Greece and Cyprus over maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday as European Union for...
Dec 07, 2020
European powers rebuke Iran after enrichment announcement
PARIS (Reuters) - France, Britain and Germany said on Monday they were "deeply concerned" by an Iranian announcement that it intended to install additional advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and a...
Dec 07, 2020
Ethiopia’s Abiy denies guerrilla war emerging in Tigray
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed denied on Monday that a rebellious northern force his troops have battled for over a month would have the capacity to mount a guerri...
Dec 07, 2020
Former U.S. Senator and anti-fraud law co-sponsor Paul Sarbanes dies at 87
(Reuters) - Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat who served in the U.S. Congress for more than three decades, helped clean up the Chesapeake Bay and corporate scandals and pressured Richard Nixon to res...
Dec 07, 2020
Brexit crunch time as EU and UK still divided over trade deal
By Guy Faulconbridge and Gabriela Baczynska LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brexit hung in the balance on Monday as Britain and the European Union made a last-ditch attempt to bridge significant differenc...
Dec 07, 2020
Home care for the elderly booms as Spaniards shun nursing homes
By Clara-Laeila Laudette MADRID (Reuters) - When Elena Lorenzo's 86-year-old sister Rosario fell in the middle of the night in her home in Spain's northern Galicia region and her husband struggled to ...
Dec 07, 2020
Trump admin set to approve Arizona land swap for mine opposed by Native Americans
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing administration is set to approve a controversial land swap later this month that would give Rio Tinto Ltd and partners more than 2...
Dec 07, 2020
Airbnb streamlines fees as it tilts toward biggest hosts
By Jane Lanhee Lee and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Airbnb is requiring most professional hosts outside North America to include all service fees in the rate presented to guests, a move that mirrors how riv...
Dec 07, 2020
Biden seen nominating infectious diseases expert Walensky to run CDC: person familiar
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, to run the U.S. Centers for Disea...
Dec 06, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. preparing new sanctions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong crackdown – sources
By Humeyra Pamuk and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing's disqualificati...
Dec 06, 2020
