Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, a...

PABRADE MILITARY TRAINING GROUNDS, Lithuania (Reuters) - Lithuania's defence minister said on Tuesday a new battalion of U.S. troops, including tanks and armoured vehicles, will be deployed in Lithuan...

By Polina Ivanova and Anthony Boadle MOSCOW/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than ...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's ruling Labour Party has lost some support since July as the coronavirus resurged in Auckland, but it is still set to win the upcoming general elec...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday advise that people should work from home if they can as part of a package of measures aimed at halting the swiftly accelerating ...

By Jessie Pang and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong people detained in China as they tried to flee by boat...

By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory wo...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent's WeChat messaging app has seen a surge in downloads in the United States since Friday after Washington confirmed it would push ahead with a planned ba...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers were trying to refloat hundreds of whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Tuesday, hoping to end one of the country'...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five weeks after California erupted in deadly wildfires supercharged by record heat and howling winds, crews battling flames pushed on Monday to consolidate the...