Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition activist
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general's office said o...
Sep 19, 2020
Belarus warns EU against inviting Lukashenko’s rival to meeting
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The foreign ministry in Belarus said on Saturday that it saw the possible participation of opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in an EU ministerial meeting as an interfer...
Sep 19, 2020
Madrid residents facing localised lockdown doubt curbs will work
By Graham Keeley (Reuters) - A partial lockdown aimed at stemming a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases is set to begin in some of Madrid's poorer districts next week, but resident's of one of the worst-hit ...
Sep 19, 2020
UK’s Labour ties with Conservatives for first time since 2019, YouGov poll finds
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party has caught up with the governing Conservatives for the first time since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July last year, a YouGov opinion pol...
Sep 19, 2020
Polluted stretch of Manila Bay gets fake white sand makeover
MANILA (Reuters) - Residents of the Philippines' capital on Saturday flocked to an artificial white sand beach that the government has transformed from a polluted stretch of shoreline to mark Internat...
Sep 19, 2020
Taiwan travellers take sightseeing ‘flight to nowhere’
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese airline carried around 120 passengers on a "flight to nowhere" on Saturday to view the South Korean resort island of Jeju, before flying straight back home, the latest g...
Sep 19, 2020
Germany plans reform to avoid bankruptcy wave due to corona
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany would relax insolvency rules under proposals set out on Saturday to help avert a wave of bankruptcies in Europe's biggest economy, provided companies hit by the coronavirus ...
Sep 19, 2020
Jump in France’s daily COVID death toll tied to unreported hospital cases
By Mathieu Rosemain and Henri-Pierre Andr PARIS (Reuters) - A sudden jump in France's daily death toll from COVID-19 stems from previously unreported cases in one hospital near Paris, according to sta...
Sep 19, 2020
Two killed, 14 injured in shooting in Rochester, New York
(Reuters) - Two people were killed and 14 others wounded in a shooting in Rochester, New York, police said on Saturday. The shooting appeared to start at a backyard party just before 12:30 a.m., with ...
Sep 19, 2020
UK foreign minister’s bodyguard suspended after gun left on plane
LONDON (Reuters) - London's police force said on Saturday it had suspended an officer tasked with guarding British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, following a newspaper report that the officer had left...
Sep 19, 2020
