Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Joe Biden says he won’t use threat of cutting U.S. troop levels in ties with South Korea
(Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential challenger Joe Biden said that if elected he will strengthen Washington's alliance with Seoul and not use the threat of reducing U.S. troop levels in South Kor...
Oct 30, 2020
Activists converge on Warsaw for ‘biggest’ protests against abortion ruling
WARSAW (Reuters) - Protesters were planning to converge on Warsaw from across Poland on Friday for what police said would likely be the biggest demonstrations yet against a court ruling that amounted ...
Oct 30, 2020
Two arrested with explosives in van during Philadelphia protests: police
(Reuters) - Two men have been charged with explosives offenses over a suspected plot to use civil unrest over the police shooting of a Black man as cover to rob cash machines, Pennsylvania state Attor...
Oct 30, 2020
Pompeo wraps up Asia tour in Vietnam following prisoner release
HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wound up a visit to Asia in Vietnam on Friday after a tour marked by his repeated calls for help for the United States in confronting security thr...
Oct 30, 2020
Crypto hedge funds rack up steep gains on lending surge
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency hedge funds have posted hefty gains so far this year, benefiting from the surge in transactions that allow lenders and borrowers to tran...
Oct 30, 2020
Protesting Thai students boycott royal graduation day
By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - Some students sympathetic to Thai protesters said on Friday they were boycotting graduation ceremonies led by King Maha Vajiralongkorn i...
Oct 30, 2020
‘War against Islamist ideology’ means more attacks in France: interior minister
PARIS (Reuters) - More attacks on French soil are likely as France is engaged in a "war against Islamist ideology", its interior minister said on Friday. A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting "Allahu...
Oct 30, 2020
47-year-old man in custody over alleged links to Nice knife attacker: BFM TV
PARIS (Reuters) - A 47-year old man has been placed in custody suspected of having been in contact with the perpretator of Thursday's deadly knife attack in Nice, BFM TV reported, citing a police sour...
Oct 30, 2020
Police in Russia shoot dead teenager in Muslim-majority Tatarstan after attack -investigators
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police in Russia shot dead a 16-year-old teenager in the Muslim-majority Tatarstan region after he tried to set fire to a local police station and stabbed a police officer, Russian ...
Oct 30, 2020
U.S. death toll from Hurricane Zeta rises to six, millions without power
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - At least six people were killed in the southeast of the United States and more than two million people were without power on Thursday after Hurricane Zeta slammed into th...
Oct 30, 2020
